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If you have feelings about this let your congress people know. dan sontheimer -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:32 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: SPECIAL BULLETIN AAFP This Week, 10/26/01 - 0025062 SPECIAL BULLETIN -- SPECIAL BULLETIN -- SPECIAL BULLETIN ============================================= Your best source for timely news of interest to family physicians SPECIAL BULLETIN -- AAFP THIS WEEK (Volume 2, No. 45) Compiled by AAFP News Department 10/26/01 ============================================= TELL CONGRESS CHIROPRACTORS DON'T PROVIDE PRIMARY CARE The House of Representatives and Senate have passed separate bills on health care for veterans, and the House bill contains provisions that would allow chiropractors to be designated as primary care providers. The House-Senate conference committee began considering the two bills today. The Academy is seeking your help in notifying Congress that chiropractors do not provide primary care and are not trained to do so. Fortunately, the Bush administration also opposes allowing chiropractors to act as primary care providers -- see the statement at ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/107-1/HR2792-h.html ). To send your lawmakers an e-mail seeking defeat of the chiropractor provision, go to ( http://capitol.aafp.org/ ). Under the action alert on the chiropractor language, click as indicated, enter your ZIP code, and e-mail your letter to your lawmakers. Timing is crucial; the conference committee may complete its action on the bill by Tuesday, Oct. 30. If you'd prefer to phone your lawmakers, call (202) 224-3121. ----------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2001 American Academy of Family Physicians. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. Thank you.