LAST chance to have your VOICE heard ........

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Check out Lyme Political Action Connecticut

I need alot of you to send 1 last e-mail to the Connecticut legislators,

even if you are not from Connecticut, and even if you have sent an

e-mail already. Go to the following address and follow the directions

to send an e-mail. It only takes about a minute, and you can send a

" canned " e-mail to 20 top legislators in Connecticut.

If we get a Lyme bill passed to mandate insurance company coverage for Lyme,

it will help you too!

Thanks,

Bruce

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This is what I sent from Bruce's site:

To the legislators of CT:

My name is Marleen ... and my family has been destroyed by Lyme disease AND

more importantly by insurance companies.

I flew to CT 2/24/99 to give support to the Lyme community and see Attorney

General Blumenthal give a much needed opportunity to the

*Medical-Insurance-Lyme-CRIME* victims to tell their side of the story. I saw

Dr. get a standing ovation. I also saw Connecticut's own *PAID

CONSULANT* to the insurance companies ... doctor T. Shoen get not so

much as ONE applause.

I flew there again on 6/1/99 for the Lyme rally. What happens in CT will

directly effect my state and every state in the union. We are looking to YOU

Connecticut to STOP the insurance companies from committing fraud by denying

us

proper treatment diagnosed by our own Doctors. The Attorney General has

brought

it to the public's attention ----- so I can't see how you can deny it any

longer.

We NOW have recent documented trial testimony of HOW and WHO these companies

hire as what they call: Paid Consultants/Lyme Experts. The same experts who

testify against our needed treatment ..... for money. We now have proof that

they are just what we always thought, High Paid Whores. Who else is going to

pay MD's between $350 to $560 an hour to render opinions on people they have

never even seen personally?

This is what you all need to know this time around. Things are a little

different then they have in the past. By the past, I mean since 1975 when

Polly

Murray brought to Connecticut's attention that there is a horrible disease

that

was being MIS-diagnosed even back then. A disease that was/is ravaging it's

children and adults. This is like a King novel!

We NOW have someone who has hired a powerful law firm -- and has started a

class action suit against insurance companies.

When all the evidence comes out, they will be able to prove how, and which

doctors, and legislators, sold us out along the way.

There is no way to sue the insurance companies without it coming out which of

their *PAID CONSULANTS* kept allowing them to deny us much needed treatment

all

along.

We believe we already know exactly who is on our side ... and to YOU .... We

are very, very grateful. We also believe we know WHO is not.

The vote that you render this time will be watched VERY carefully. If job

security isn't a priority to you, then this whole topic will be of very little

interest to you.

Sincerely,

Marleen

Here is a copy of the flyer that is being posted Coast to Coast via the

Internet and in Canada:

Attention!

LYME DISEASE SUFFERERS

A leading class action litigation firm, Napoli, Kaiser & Bern, has just agreed

to represent Lyme sufferers against the Health Insurance Companies.

If you suffer from Lyme Disease and believe that you have not received proper

and/or sufficient medical treatment through Your doctor, due to coverage

limitations imposed by your Health Insurance Company, it's important that we

hear from you now.

You can contact us immediately via the Internet at LymeSuit@.... Please

provide us with your name, address (or at least state of residence), telephone

number the name of your insurance carrier and a very brief summary of your

coverage issues (100 words or fewer please). If you do not have

access to the Internet, please send the same information to:

LymeSuit

c/o Napoli, Kaiser & Bern - LLP

115 Broadway

New York, NY 10006

Please be assured that this is NOT a solicitation and there will be no cost

to you in joining this action. Further, any information you provide will only

be used in connection with this case.

This is your opportunity to be heard and to try to stop injustices by the

Insurance Companies (and to help other Lyme Disease sufferers from being

denied

ongoing treatment/coverage).

Thank you for your support of Lyme Disease.

Please help make a difference!

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I am concerned about the language on Lyme Disease currently being negotiated

that discusses 2nd opinions.

If you are planning to require any type of 2nd opinions, make sure that the

2nd

opinion is not required upfront for every type of treatment request. This

would

overly burden me and my doctors for many of the standard Lyme treatments that

insurance companies are already covering.

Instead, if an insurance company denies treatment, the patient would be

allowed

to get a 2nd opinion. The patient should be allowed to pick the 2nd doctor,

the

HMO should pay for it and should allow the patient to get the opinion from the

doctor outside of network. If the 2nd opinions says the treatment is

appropriate, the HMO would have to pay.