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A Toolkit for You to Take Action
Take action -
Contact Congress & CMS
• Take action and write to Congress (takes
30 seconds): click here
• Take action and call Congress using ACC’s toll-free grassroots
hotline 800-210-7193 •
Take action and send a message to CMS with your thoughts on how these cuts will affect your practice
and your patients. CMS reads and reviews all comments; the more cardiology professionals that write in, the better.
Comments can be sent to CMS via the following website: click here • Attend the ACC Legislative Conference September 13-15, 2009, in Washington,
DC: click here
Get your patients involved!
Flyers for your patients - suggestion: print these on a color printer,
and hang them in your office.
• Flyer #1 Help Protect Your Cardiovascular Care (Flyer) (Poster)• Flyer #2 Congress Holds Your Heart in Its Hands
(Flyer) (Poster) • Flyer #3 Your Access to Cardiovascular Care is at
Risk (Flyer) (Poster)
Template letter
to give to your patients -
suggestion: have this letter printed out on blank paper (NOT your office letterhead) &
addressed to senators/representatives with pre-addressed envelopes attached for your patients to send.
• Patient Letter to Congress - click here
• Patient Electronic Message to Congress - click here
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