The first really important step is to contact Senator
Hannon. Ask him to move the OPMC Due Process Bill,
S5057 , out of his committee as soon as possible.

THIS IS FOR EVERYONE FROM EVERY STATE.

Our messages and emails should be friendly, since
Hannon is a sponsor of the bill.

You can even throw in a thank you for sponsoring the
bill, but make sure they also take down that you want
it passed as soon as possible.

If Hannon doesn't act to get the bill out of committee
soon, we
will be in trouble, so it's urgent that we politely
pressure him to pass the bill out of his health
committee.

Please call and email and get others to do so as well.
If you need to call in the evening, leave a message
on the phone tape.
His contact information is:����

His district office:

516 739 1700�����

His Albany Office:
518 455 2200

E Mail:�����
[email protected]

Feel free to call either or both phones and to email
as well.
Thanks,
Ellen

Oh and make sure you do this!!!!!!!!

If not us, then who???

Thanks Ellen...........

That was a huge victory for the 'little Bill that could'..

Ellen has said it takes a minimum of three to five years to pass new legislation..

If everyone can take a minute to make the contact, and another minute to forward to all your friends..

This could be our year It is time.

Last year, there were so many calls the Senators secretaries knew why we were calling before some of us even said the Bill number! We have to be sure and generate that same response again so they know we will not go away.

OPMC reform in NY protects LLMD's across the country, as the other states will follow suit once protection is set here.

Mo

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Originally posted by ellenluba:
The first really important step is to contact Senator
Hannon. Ask him to move the OPMC Due Process Bill,
S5057 , out of his committee as soon as possible.

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Thanks to everyone who is writing and calling. Hannon has done well by us in sponsoring the bill and helping it get through the Senate last year.

However, although this bill (S5057) is the most important for us, there are many other bills on Hannon's mind. If he gets passive about our bill, we will be in big trouble.

So it's our job to make sure he gets so many calls and emails from us that this bill becomes his first priority.

Please, everyone write and call. Thank him for sponsoring the bill and tell him you hope that the bill will be voted out of his committee as soon as possible.

The legislature goes home in June, so we really need to act fast to get this bill through the legislature.
Thanks,
Ellen

We have had a big fight in NYS to protect LLMDs from losing their licenses.

Most of our doctors in NYS have been targeted by the OPMC, the part of the state Dept of Health that disciplines doctors.

In all cases, this has cost the physicians time away from their practices and thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

In one case it cost the doctor his license.

Dr. Burrascano was harassed by the OPMC for years, culminating in a hearing in which the OPMC tried to take his license away.

Although Dr. B was exonerated on most of the charges, there is nothing keeping the OPMC from again going after his license.

All we are trying to do is give doctors some due process in protecting themselves from persecution by the OPMC.

If we do not make the OPMC investigative and disciplinary process more fair, most doctors in New York State will continue refiusing to deal with chronic Lyme disease.

Physicians throughout the country are aware of the climate generated by OPMC witch hunt against Lyme doctots. So everyone is affected by this problem

I just spoke to Tincup.

And I want you to know that this post has the " Good Tincup Seal of Approval"

Tincup is fine, but has to be off line for a while.

Just to remind everyone that after you make your contacts, to send off to your e-mal book, support groups, church, family..

and even other illness support groups.

Taking some of the power from medical boards that allows them to persecute Docs treating specialized illness is good for ALL chronic illnesses.

It will still allow them to go after 'bad' doctors, but not to persecute those who treat in specialized ways.

For everyone, across the country and across the pond, too.

Mo

Mo makes a really good point.

The OPMC Due Process Bill S5057/A7757 is of interest to ALL patients. What the bill does is give ALL doctors a fair shake in dealing with the NYS government.

Mo makes a really good point.

The OPMC Due Process Bill S5057/A7757 is of interest to ALL patients. What the bill does is give ALL doctors a fair shake in dealing with the NYS government.

Thank you so much for sponsoring S 5057 due process bill on behalf of us lyme patients nationnwide! We're so proud of you for standing up for our rights to get long-term antibiotics for our undiagnosed lyme illnesses of 10-40 years! I'm 34 years undiagnosed until 7-04.

More importantly, for helping to protect the lyme literate MDs who have chosen to help us get better so we can go into remission since we late-stage lymies can NOT be cured! These doctors are a God-send to us lyme patients; please protect them for us....thank you.

Please move S 5057 out of your Health committee soon so further progress can be done on behalf of the entire lyme community.

I'm so proud of NEW YORK for writing this bill and trying to get this implemented for us lymies! I'm from Iowa, and hope in the next 1-2 years we can get accomplished as much as what you have done for the citizens of the state of New York! Hats off to you all!

God bless you all for thinking of us lyme and co-infection patients!

Dear Senator Hannon,

Please pass the OPMC Due Process Bill S5057 out of committee as soon as possible.

Lyme disease has finally been recognized here in the State of California. I'm excited by the prospect of New York taking the lead with this bill. All doctors currently treating Lyme patients, take great risk to act on their knowledge of the severity and impact of this disease. These doctors should be protected from undue harrassment for treating Lyme patients.

Lyme disease as affected my life greatly since I got pregnant while misdiagnosed with MS and unknowingly passed Lyme disease to my, now, two-year old son. My husband was treated improperly for a tick bite by a doctor lacking in knowledge of Lyme disease. This bill is one step toward bring protecting those doctors who will bring Lyme treatment to mainstream medicine so fewer families will suffer like ours has.

Don't forget that we are not only helping people who will come after us. We're also helping ourselves. None of us can afford to lose our doctors.
Ellen

District office phone number for Senator Hannon is 516-739-1700.

Albany phone number for Senator Hannon is 518-455-2200

Email address for him is: [email protected]

The bill we want moved out of committee is Bill S 5057

Please contact Senator Hannon now and ask him for his help.

(Please note, the area code for the first number is 516 not 515 as I originally wrote in this post. Sorry, misread my own writing.)

Thank you for the contact information. I always check in while at work and although it's hard to pull both together you made it possible with all of the info.

Just sent e-mail request and phoned.
Said they are received a lot of calls from physicians within Albany and that all messages are given to the Sen.