Take 5 minutes to call your Representative and Senator today to support or continue to support the Medicare Hearing Care Enhancement Act H.R.1665 or S.2352.Then ask your family, friends, and patients to do the same. We need as many people as possible to ask for their legislators' support.

This is extremely important to our profession right now. The otolaryngologists have been writing or visiting the representatives and senators and on March 10-11 a large contingent of physician organizations that oppose direct access were in Washington D.C. visiting with members of Congress. We must counter their initiative.

Tell your senator and representative that the Department of Veterans Affairs allows veterans to directly access audiologists and has reported that this policy, adopted in 1992, provides high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective hearing care. The Office of Personnel Management allows Federal employees and Members of Congress to directly access audiologists through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Below is a list of our 80 cosponsors for H.R.1665 and the 5 cosponsors for S 2352. If your representative is not listed, it is your job to get his or her support.

Call, fax or email today! We not only want to keep the co-sponsors, we want to double the co-sponsors and show the strength of our support to those who oppose our efforts. To locate your representatives, use the "Find Your Representative" and "Find Your Senator" search tools located at the top of the page on the websites below.

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H.R.1665 (» view)

Title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare beneficiaries greater choice with regard to accessing hearing health services and benefits.
Sponsor: Rep Ross, Mike [AR-4] (introduced 3/23/2007) Cosponsors (80)
Related Bills: S.2352
Latest Major Action: 4/3/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

COSPONSORS(80), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:

Rep Altmire, Jason [PA-4] - 5/21/2007
Rep Andrews, Robert E. [NJ-1] - 9/4/2007
Rep Bachus, Spencer [AL-6] - 3/23/2007
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 4/19/2007
Rep Barrow, John [GA-12] - 10/17/2007
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] - 6/25/2007
Rep Becerra, Xavier [CA-31] - 7/31/2007
Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [GA-2] - 6/28/2007
Rep Boucher, Rick [VA-9] - 9/5/2007
Rep Boyda, Nancy E. [KS-2] - 3/29/2007
Rep Chandler, Ben [KY-6] - 4/25/2007
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 7/12/2007
Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9] - 2/6/2008
Rep Cooper, Jim [TN-5] - 7/31/2007
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 7/31/2007
Rep Davis, Lincoln [TN-4] - 4/19/2007
Rep Davis, Tom [VA-11] - 8/3/2007
Rep Deal, Nathan [GA-9] - 10/17/2007
Rep DeGette, Diana [CO-1] - 9/27/2007
Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] - 3/23/2007
Rep Doyle, Michael F. [PA-14] - 6/25/2007
Rep Ehlers, Vernon J. [MI-3] - 3/23/2007
Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] - 12/6/2007
Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] - 3/23/2007
Rep English, Phil [PA-3] - 5/24/2007
Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] - 12/11/2007
Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] - 3/23/2007
Rep Gordon, Bart [TN-6] - 7/31/2007
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 7/12/2007
Rep Herseth, Stephanie [SD] - 3/23/2007
Rep Higgins, Brian [NY-27] - 7/31/2007
Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] - 7/31/2007
Rep Holt, Rush D. [NJ-12] - 6/25/2007
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 12/11/2007
Rep Keller, Ric [FL-8] - 9/24/200
Rep Kildee, Dale E. [MI-5] - 3/23/2007
Rep LaHood, Ray [IL-18] - 10/18/2007
Rep Lampson, Nick [TX-22] - 3/23/2007
Rep LaTourette, Steven C. [OH-14] - 1/16/2008
Rep Lofgren, Zoe [CA-16] - 6/25/2007
Rep Lowey, Nita M. [NY-18] - 11/15/2007
Rep Lynch, Stephen F. [MA-9] - 7/12/2007
Rep McCollum, Betty [MN-4] - 4/19/2007
Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] - 3/23/2007
Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 3/23/2007
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 3/23/2007
Rep Napolitano, Grace F. [CA-38] - 9/17/2007
Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] - 4/25/2007
Rep Olver, John W. [MA-1] - 9/5/2007
Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] - 3/23/2007
Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] - 2/14/2008
Rep Porter, Jon C. [NV-3] - 12/11/2007
Rep Rogers, Harold [KY-5] - 10/18/2007
Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] - 7/12/2007
Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille [CA-34] - 9/24/2007
Rep Ryan, Tim [OH-17] - 8/3/2007
Rep Sali, Bill [ID-1] - 5/24/2007
Rep Sanchez, Loretta [CA-47] - 3/5/2008
Rep Schwartz, Allyson Y. [PA-13] - 8/1/2007
Rep Shea-Porter, Carol [NH-1] - 2/13/2008
Rep Shuster, Bill [PA-9] - 8/1/2007
Rep Simpson, Michael K. [ID-2] - 7/31/2007
Rep Smith, Adam [WA-9] - 9/17/2007
Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] - 3/5/2008
Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] - 5/21/2007
Rep Udall, Tom [NM-3] - 1/23/2008
Rep Upton, Fred [MI-6] - 9/5/2007
Rep Van Hollen, Chris [MD-8] - 5/21/2007
Rep Walberg, Timothy [MI-7] - 10/25/2007
Rep Walsh, James T. [NY-25] - 3/23/2007
Rep Walz, Timothy J. [MN-1] - 2/6/2008
Rep Welch, Peter [VT] - 2/6/2008
Rep Westmoreland, Lynn A. [GA-3] - 6/6/2007
Rep Wilson, Charles A. [OH-6] - 5/21/2007
Rep Wilson, Heather [NM-1] - 12/11/2007
Rep Wittman, Robert J. [VA-1] - 2/14/2008
Rep Wolf, Frank R. [VA-10] - 6/25/2007
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell [MD-4] - 9/4/2007
Rep Young, C.W. Bill [FL-10] - 3/23/2007
Rep Young, Don [AK] - 1/23/2008
Rep Udall, Mark [CO-2] - 9/24/2007(withdrawn - 9/26/2007)

S.2352 (» view)
Title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare beneficiaries greater choice with regard to accessing hearing health services and benefits.
Sponsor: Sen Johnson, Tim [SD] (introduced 11/14/2007) Cosponsors (5)
Related Bills: H.R.1665
Latest Major Action: 11/14/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

COSPONSORS(5), ALPHABETICAL

Sen Coleman, Norm [MN] - 11/14/2007
Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 11/14/2007
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 12/17/2007
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 11/14/2007
Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] - 12/17/2007

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