URGENT - Need your HELP with Medicare!!! PLEASE!!!
Hello everyone,
I wrote this message and a couple of letters have begun to be sent to me. I really need your assistance so PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, send me your letters as I need to have a few in hand when I meet the Minister of Health in May.
As some of you already know, there is a strong chancethat NB MEdicare will uninsure coverage for all gastric bypass and lapband suregries in NB. The final decision will be made between now and June.
Rinette and the team have already begun to motify patients of what they can do but in speakeing with her and teh team last Thursday, I woulda ppreciate if you would all be able to write letter addressed to the Minister of Health, the Honarable Madeleine Dubé but rather than send to her, send it to me as I told the team that if I were to walk into the minister's office with several letters addressed to her, she would have to see them and if we were to each send a letter individually, it may sit on her desk for months. I work in health so trust me, it happens.
What would need to be put in the letter is not only yoor story of how the surgery has helped you and will help others as well but also, the financial impact it has in saving thousands of dollars in the long run as these surgeries assist patients who are diabetes to reduce or even eliminate their diabetes, heart disease, sleep apnea, respiratory problems, asthmas, galbladder disease and these are to only name a few. These surgeries reduce in the short and especially in teh long run to eleviate other potential health issues and by doing so, reduce financial cost to teh government. The other issue would also be that these surgeries are Dr. Beausoleil's passion and if he will no longer be able to perform them he will leave the province to go to Quebec where he would be able to do so as it continues to be covered there. IF he were to leave, what wil we do for our follows up, etc. Will our government allows us to go there to see him at tehre expense? I doubt that.
Here is my email address: [email protected] Please stand up for this and write that letter. We need to help others receive the new life we have been able to get.
Thank you,
Denise :)
I wrote this message and a couple of letters have begun to be sent to me. I really need your assistance so PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, send me your letters as I need to have a few in hand when I meet the Minister of Health in May.
As some of you already know, there is a strong chancethat NB MEdicare will uninsure coverage for all gastric bypass and lapband suregries in NB. The final decision will be made between now and June.
Rinette and the team have already begun to motify patients of what they can do but in speakeing with her and teh team last Thursday, I woulda ppreciate if you would all be able to write letter addressed to the Minister of Health, the Honarable Madeleine Dubé but rather than send to her, send it to me as I told the team that if I were to walk into the minister's office with several letters addressed to her, she would have to see them and if we were to each send a letter individually, it may sit on her desk for months. I work in health so trust me, it happens.
What would need to be put in the letter is not only yoor story of how the surgery has helped you and will help others as well but also, the financial impact it has in saving thousands of dollars in the long run as these surgeries assist patients who are diabetes to reduce or even eliminate their diabetes, heart disease, sleep apnea, respiratory problems, asthmas, galbladder disease and these are to only name a few. These surgeries reduce in the short and especially in teh long run to eleviate other potential health issues and by doing so, reduce financial cost to teh government. The other issue would also be that these surgeries are Dr. Beausoleil's passion and if he will no longer be able to perform them he will leave the province to go to Quebec where he would be able to do so as it continues to be covered there. IF he were to leave, what wil we do for our follows up, etc. Will our government allows us to go there to see him at tehre expense? I doubt that.
Here is my email address: [email protected] Please stand up for this and write that letter. We need to help others receive the new life we have been able to get.
Thank you,
Denise :)
Hello and thank you for your message,
My goal is to have a s many letters as possible by the end of April so that I may take them to the Minister the first week of May. I have only received about 8 so far and I knwo there are hundreds of patients out there so if you know of anyone whom has had gastric surgery, please encourage to write and send me their letter.
Thank you,
Denise :)
My goal is to have a s many letters as possible by the end of April so that I may take them to the Minister the first week of May. I have only received about 8 so far and I knwo there are hundreds of patients out there so if you know of anyone whom has had gastric surgery, please encourage to write and send me their letter.
Thank you,
Denise :)
Well, after speaking with Nathalie from Dr. Beausoleil's office, I am feeling a little better. She mentioned there has been talk in the medical realm that they may have decided NOT to remove gastric bypass from Medicare coverage, but then, it was only hearsay so lets hope that it is in fact true. Keeping my fingers crossed as I am seeing the doc Friday for my consult!
Michelle
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