A profession-wide advocacy campaign to "Help Save Chiropractic" is being launched in mid-September by Foot Levelers, Inc., and Standard Process, Inc., in response to the growing expectation that significant congressional action will be taken regarding U.S. health care reform within the next few months. Company presidents Kent Greenawalt (Foot Levelers) and Charles DuBois (Standard Process) have joined forces to mobilize chiropractic patients to ask their congressional leaders to vote "to include chiropractic care as a guaranteed benefit in any health care reform bill approved by Congress."
Your office will be receiving a petition packet featuring a counter display, three-part petition cards (titled "Watch My Back") and envelopes, along with a letter on how to use the materials in your practice. The packet is being sent to chiropractic offices nationwide and gives you the opportunity to collect patient signatures supporting chiropractic as a guaranteed benefit and then forward those signatures/petitions to your congressional leaders in both the U.S. House and Senate. Instructions on how to take advantage of this unique advocacy opportunity are simple:
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The petition campaign coincides with the $1 million advertising campaign recently launched by the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress. Given the number of U.S. doctors of chiropractic and the more than 15 million patients they serve, the petition campaign is expected to generate well over 10 million petitions.
For the names of your members of Congress, go to www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml or have your patients visit www.chirovoice.org.
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