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Thank you Sandra for writing and sharing your eloquent and powerful letter, and for taking the initiative to fight for prescription drug coverage. It is maddening that anyone should have to choose between buying food or paying rent or buying medicine they need to be able to live with PD or any other illness. Thank you also Phil, Marjorie and Murray for all your hard work in researching the many Medicare bills before Congress. It is a confusing mess to say the least. I have to agree that it is very unlikely that the current Congress is going to pass any significant legislation in their remaining few days. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't hear from us! Many, for better or worse, will be returning to office, and in the next session we can only hope COngress and whoever ends up in the White House will work together and address these issues. Sandra's letter so strongly illustrates why they must do so. The emphasis is on why prescription drug coverage is needed in the U.S. I'd suggest that we all contact our own representatives, as she asked, and insist that they listen and that they assure us that they will act on these needs, and remind them that the voters will be watching. (and then of course, hope that our votes are among those that are counted!!!) I think we will also need to keep ourselves educated on the progress of any proposed legislation on all health care issues ( not just PD) in the next Congress, and fully understand what they will or won't accomplish. Thanks again, Sandra, Marjorie, Phil and Murray, Linda Herman