How You Can Help

• Visit these pages of SEGO’s website often for latest developments!

• Contact your Senators and Representative.  Contact information is here.

  • Invite him or her to accompany you to the chemotherapy suite to see what is involved in quality cancer care.  (We need to do this in August while our lawmakers are in Georgia.  Please pester them so they will come visit this month!  If you find a lawmaker who would like to plan a visit to a chemotherapy suite, please get the appropriate contact person’s name and phone number and call Caroline Young at 678.420.4272.)

  • Thank Senators Miller and Chambliss for signing the Brownback letter (which calls for balanced Medicare reform).  Thank Representatives Isakson and Majette for signing the Schrock, Capps, Norwood letter (the corresponding House letter).  Ask Representatives Scott and Lewis to sign the Schrock, Capps, Norwood letter.

  • Ask them to persuade conference committee members, the House and Senate leadership, and the Bush administration to pursue balanced Medicare reform—not at the expense of cancer patients.

• Contact members of the conference committee and tell them to Support Cancer Care!

• Contact the local media and ask them to cover this important story.

• Clip coverage of the issue and send it to your senators and representative as well as the conferees.

• Write down your story—how community-based cancer care has improved your cancer experience; how hospital-based cancer care would negatively affect you—and forward it to Caroline Young (emails are preferred—send to cyoung@segynonc.com) for compilation.  (Caroline will forward your stories to supportive lawmakers for use during the debates on the bill and as supplemental information.)

• Consider writing essays/letters to the editor for local and national media outlets.  (Newsweek readers may want to submit a “My Turn” essay.)

• If you have other ideas or questions, please contact Caroline Young at SEGO 678.420.4272.

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