[Vision2020] Stop drug company lobby blitz!

[debismith at moscow.com]

Thanks, Saundra. While I do believe there are many things to be gained from scientific 
exploration of medications, i also believe our medical community is a total mess--hand-in-glove 
with the insurance companies, the exploitive prescripotion drug companies, and large 
corporations getting the drugs to cure all our real and imagined ills on the market as fast as 
possible. I just hope that the US can finally get our act together and stop thinking there is a pill 
for instant gratification. We are so far down the path of Fix Me that we don't allow for individuals 
to feel anything....
Debi

From:           	"Saundra Lund" <sslund at roadrunner.com>
To:             	<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date sent:      	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:39:36 -0700
Subject:        	[Vision2020] Stop drug company lobby blitz!

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From: Consumers Union [mailto:action at consumer.org] 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:47 AM
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Subject: Stop drug company lobby blitz!


We need 100,000 letters to the Senate in the coming weeks!

Tell your Senator to vote FOR  real drug safety reform, and start the
push for final passage!
http://cu.convio.net/site/R?i=VhVttpXvwv0J1GA4Zgp7GQ..

Dear Saundra,

Vioxx, Paxil, Zyprexa drug companies knew their risks, but failed to
tell the public.  As a result, tens of thousands of Americans suffered
or died from these medications.

But thanks to help from thousands of you, we can now pass real drug
safety reform this spring.  A "must pass" bill will give you and your
doctor critical information about hazardous drug side effects--but the
drug industry is lobbying to strip off hard won safety provisions.

Take a moment right now to ask your Senator to vote "Yes!" for strong
reforms. http://cu.convio.net/site/R?i=_CNghEu_o2Zi8GJ4g_rJdw

Together we have already sent more than 43,000 messages just to
lawmakers on the key committee that voted this bill out last week.  We
now have just a few weeks to solidify support in the whole Senate. 
Let's send a hundred thousand more calls, letters and emails.

This bill has real momentum, but the drug companies haven't left
Washington. They will be out in force, visiting every Senate office
and trying to get drug safety protections stripped out of this good
bill.  Drug companies spent an average of $289,000 per member of
Congress to create stalemate in Washington between 2005 and 2006--and
managed to defeat Medicare drug price reforms on the floor of the
Senate just this week.

That's why it's critical that you tell your Senator right now to vote
FOR real reform  when this bill reaches the Senate floor.
http://cu.convio.net/site/R?i=p1V-hlcAQIbpCR2HSsXsIQ

Washington is broken, and the only fix is clear, persistent and direct
communication from you (alongside a hundred thousand others).  Please
help us grow this campaign!  Every Senator from every state needs to
hear from us.  Please take a moment to forward this action to everyone
you know so they can register their own thoughts on the importance of
safer, lower cost drugs to all Americans. 

Thank you,
Liz Foley
PrescriptionForChange.org
A project of Consumers Union
101 Truman Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10703-1057


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