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United States Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Dist. 08) of Michigan speaking to a room full of pain healthcare patient advocates on Capitol Hill. Congressman Rogers has offered excellent leadership now going into a second Administration regarding access to better pain management offering hope for a better quality of life for suffering Americans.
MAGNUM Signs Consensus Statement Supporting the 2009 National Pain Care Policy Act
WASHINGTON, DC—(Wednesday-January 28th, 2009)—We hoped readers had the opportunity to watch Dr. Donna Shalala today broadcasting from University of Miami which we suggested you catch to learn about health plans of the new Administration.
Speaking of what is new with the government and healthcare? Great news for those who have supported the 2008 National Pain Care Policy Act and the Military and Veterans Pain Policy Acts!
Many of the readers of MigraineBlog.commight recall last year many non-government organizations (NGOs) such as MAGNUM and the American Pain Foundation were successful in harnessing our collective voices as the Military and Veteran’s Pain Care Acts were signed into law.
Thanks to the leadership of American Pain Foundation we made tremendous strides with the National Pain Care Policy Act in 2008. But MAGNUM’s and other organizations need to continue to support this act to accomplish passage of this bill in 2009.
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It is anticipated Congresswoman Capps (D-CA) will re-introduce the amended bill (passed in the House of Representatives last year) with the sponsorship of Congressman Michael Rogers (R-MI). MAGNUM was very pleased that the bill passed the House last year and moved to the Senate, and hope that with continued momentum will propel the bill through both the House and the Senate in this new session of Congress.
In the last Congress, MAGNUM and its members, readers, and visitors supported the bill back when MAGNUM endorsed the Consensus Statement on the Bill. The American Pain Foundation ask for MAGNUM’s support again, by confirming our endorsement of the Consensus Statement supporting the National Pain Care Policy Act 2009. Which we of course did, which shows how efforts such as this or next month Headache On the Hill can improve the quality of care we pain patients have access to with a bit of work.
Click here to read the Consensus Statement.
The Consensus Statement with endorsers is a powerful tool to demonstrate the broad-based support for this important legislation, and will be used to secure co-sponsors and further our momentum to gain passage. By uniting, mobilizing and leveraging our collective voices, we can improve pain management. It is not acceptable that over 76.5 million Americans suffer pain and the majority do not receive appropriate care!
If you work with another NGO or volunteer with one you might want to ACT NOW to add your organization to the list organizations endorsing this legislation and encourage other organizations to join the list of Consensus Statement Endorsers.
To view past organizational support for national pain legislation, see the 2008 Consensus Statement of the National Pain Care Policy Act and the Military/Veterans Pain Care Acts Consensus Statement.
Visit MyMigraineConnection.com to learn even more about the National Pain Care Policy Act.
The National Pain Care Policy Act is neither ambitious or energetic enough to substantially change pain care in the United States. It is "polite reformism" which will not compensate for the failures of the biomedical model of pain care.
Posted by: david | Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 03:05 PM