Insurance hearing TODAY (12/4/07, 2:30)

[Guest guest]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send in your insurance coverage deinal stories

to Barb Yavorcik. (see below)

If you cannot attend today this is a way of being counted and

emphasizing the importance of this issue.

Jessie

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This is incredibly short notice, I know. But we just found out about

this ourselves - which might be a strategic move on their part. The

House Insurance Committee has scheduled an Autism Insurance hearing

for TOMORROW December 4, 2007 at 2:30. (See details below). The

turnout at the last hearing was quite impressive - we need at least

as many people this time around!

Please attend, send your story to committee members, contact Barb

Yavorcik with denial stories, tell a friend, post a flyer at work,

etc. Let's keep the momentum going!

I have attached 2 document containing contact information for The

Coalition for Autism Research and Education 110th Congress members as

well as for the House Insurance Committee members. If you cannot

attend - please send your story to these committee members.

Hope to see you

there!

Jessie Beauvais

From: BYavorcik@... [mailto:BYavorcik@...]

Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:27 AM

undisclosed-recipients

Subject: ACTION ALERT: Autism Insurance Parity - Please Respond ASAP

Dear Autism Insurance Parity Advocate:

We have just received word that the House Insurance Committee will be

holding another hearing on Autism Insurance Parity on Tuesday,

December 4, 2007 at 2:30pm at the Statehouse Room 121.

With apologies for the short notice - we need your help! We need

parents that are privately insured with an employer sponsored or

group plan that are willing to testify. If you are unable to come to

Columbus to testify, would you be willing to write testimony that

could be read by someone else? We would like 2-4 parents to testify.

Attached are copies of the testimony given by parent Tamara Heydt and

ASO President and parent Barb Yavorcik at the last hearing. Your

testimony should share your story of problems receiving coverage for

autism treatments and reinforce the points made by Tamara and Barb.

Please reply to this email and let me know ASAP if you are able to

testify or you are willing to write testimony for another parent to

read. Please contact me at byavorcik@... if you have any

questions.

If you are unable to testify, you can still come to the hearing to

support those that are.

Thank you for working with us to pass autism insurance parity!

Sincerely,

Barbara C.

Yavorcik

Co-

President

Autism Society of Ohio

For the Autism Insurance Parity Committee: Lori Peacock, Doug

Krinsky, Marla Root, Petrill, Jacquie Wynn, Rep. Jon ,

Rep. Ted Celeste, Barb Yavorcik, Andie Ryley