I'm not really sure which is the correct forum for this post, but I really feel this a important opportunity for Florida Lyme patients so I am posting it to all of them to give it the best chance at being read. If I offend anyone by placing it here I apologize.
Below is the information from an email that was sent to me by Dolores Claesson, a lyme advocate, who met this past Saturday with Mike Haridopolos the President of the Florida Senate. She asked that we pass this along to all Florida Lyme patients. Here it is:
Please e-mail or call and tell your story to Mike Haridopolos, President of the FL Senate. His wife by the way is a physician and we need to get her involved. I talked with him about lyme disease in the State of FL and we need to get him to enact legislation to allow our physicians to treat long term for lyme. Same legislation as CT and many other states are enacting....He needs to know how this has affected Floridians, native born and naturalized !! The Squeaky wheel gets the grease. His assistant also gave me his contact info and we need to let them know what is happening in FL...
We need to ensure that the people of FL will also get treatment paid for by insurance companies, Medicare, Medicaid, Medicaid needy share a cost, Kids care or any other company operating within our State.