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• Lymphedema Treatment Act Update:

  by Jenny Sterner March 26, 2013
  Lymphedema Treatment Act Update:  March 26, 2013   We are still in the process of building our state teams to advocate for the Act. To date we have teams in 31 states - can you help us reach our goal of all 50? You can read more about the teams at http://lymphedemat...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act Update:

  by Jenny Sterner February 10, 2013
  Lymphedema Treatment Act Update:   Our sponsor for the 113th Congress, Congressman Dave Reichert (R) of Washington State, who is a majority member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee to which our bill has been referred, is working on preparations for reintroduction of the Lymp...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act Update--September 2012

  by Jenny Sterner August 31, 2012
  Lymphedema Treatment Act Update:   Going into the August recess our cosponsor count was 89. Although members of Congress and their staff still receive and review your letters, during recess new cosponsors cannot be officially added so I have no updated total for you.  Remember that persi...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act--April 2012

  by Jenny Sterner April 3, 2012
  Happy spring!At your earliest convenience, if possible, please take just five minutes to submit letters to your members of Congress using the links to the left.  Our website logs every letter sent, and unfortunately, just a small percentage of those receiving this Newsletter contacted their mem...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act-- March 2012 Update

  by Jenny Sterner April 3, 2012
  Lymphedema Treatment Act Update / March Newsletter:   As of this writing, HR 2499 has 62 cosponsors!  Please help us reach our goal of getting to 100 this year.  To view the list of cosponsors go to http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-2499 - if you do not se...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act Update - Dec. 2011

  by Jenny Sterner January 13, 2012
  A heartfelt thanks to all of you who have helped to make the accomplishments of 2011 a reality!  Highlights from 2011 include:   On June 12, 2011, HR 2499 was introduced in the House and to date has garnered 46 bipartisan cosponsors.   The bill gained the endorsement of the ...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act Update – HR 2499 Staff Briefing Nov 3r

  by Jenny Sterner October 22, 2011
    We need your help with a very quick and easy but important task.  Please go to our website - www.LymphedemaTreatmentAct.org - and visit the Contact Your Representative and Contact Each Of Your Senators pages.   The template letter has been temporarily changed to an invitation for...

• LTA DC Lobbying trip--Nov. 2-5, 2011!!

  by Jenny Sterner September 2, 2011
    This year’s trip to DC will be Nov. 2–5, 2011.  Please visit our website for complete information - http://lymphedematreatmentact.org/join-us-in-dc-2011-lymphedema-lobby-days/.     Want to support our efforts in DC but can’t come in person?  Please con...

• LTA Update - 8/1/11

  by Jenny Sterner August 1, 2011
  RE:  Lymphedema Treatment Act Update Thank you so much to those of you who have already contacted your members of Congress.  As of August 1,  HR 2499 has 21 cosponsors!Please go to www.LymphedemaTreatmentAct.org to write your Representative and Senators if you ha...

• Lymphedema Bill Re-introduced to Congress!!

  by Jenny Sterner July 21, 2011
  Lymphedema Treatment Act Update:   The Lymphedema Diagnosis and Treatment Cost Saving Act of 2011, HR 2499, has been reintroduced!   It is now very important that you send letters to your members of Congress through the www.LymphedemaTreatmentAct.org website.   Please use the su...

• LTA Update, June 1

  by Jenny Sterner June 10, 2011
  On May 25th a stakeholder’s meeting took place at the DC office of Congressman Larry Kissell, our bill sponsor, to review a recently completed draft of the bill.  Since the start of the new Congress in January, his office has been working with the professional bill writers of Legislative ...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act Update (5/1/11)

  by Jenny Sterner May 1, 2011
  We are pleased to announce two wonderful additions to our website: we now have a Resources for Patients page, (http://lymphedematreatmentact.org/what-is-lymphedema/resources-for-patients) and a sampling of submissions to “My Lymphedema Story” can now be read on our Blog! (http://lym...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act

  by Jenny Sterner April 16, 2011
  We need your help spreading the word about the Lymphedema Treatment Act!To assist you in doing so we would be happy to send you information cards to distribute to your doctor’s office, treatment center, garment fitter, support group, family and friends, church, etc.  Just contact us at in...

• Lymphedema Treatment Act update

  by Jenny Sterner April 2, 2011
     For those of you who have not yet been to the new Lymphedema Treatment Act website I encourage you to check it out and to also visit the new  Blog, Twitter and Facebook pages for the bill.  For future reference, icons linking to those accounts can be found in the lower right ...

• December 9, 2010 Update

  by Jenny Sterner December 9, 2010
    Since my last update we’ve picked up one more cosponsor – Congressman Lewis (GA-5) – bringing our total to 58.   If you have not yet sent a note of thanks to Congressman Kissell for his work on HR 4662 this year, and his pledge to reintroduce the bill next year, ...

• Lymphedema Bill Update 11/16/10

  by Jenny Sterner November 17, 2010
  Dear HR 4662 Supporters, Due to Congress having been on recess, and everyone’s attention being focused on campaigning before that, it had been some time since we’d picked up more cosponsors.  But yesterday was Congress’s first day back to work and we gained four new cospons...

• Lymphedema Bill--now what?

  by Jenny Sterner November 5, 2010
  As I thought might occur after the election, people are asking me “If my Representative is not yet a cosponsor do I continue to contact his/her office (especially if he/she was not re-elected) or wait until next year?”  Rather than answer one by one, I will address this to everyon...

• Lymphedema Bill Complete Election Update

  by Jenny Sterner November 4, 2010
     Here is how the HR 4662 Cosponsors fared: Of our 53 cosponsors (complete list below) three did not seek re-election.  They were Peter Hoekstra, Kendrick Meek (who ran for the Senate instead) and Vic Snyder.  Of the remaining 50, five were not re-elected.&nbs...

• "Share Your Story" Campaign

  by Jenny Sterner September 19, 2010
  Dear HR 4662 Supporters, This update is devoted to announcing a new way in which you can help.  We are launching the “Share Your Lymphedema Story” campaign!  Complete information is below. I am thrilled to be able to attend the National Lymphedema Conference taking place ...
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• HR 4662 and the American Cancer Society

  by Jenny Sterner September 3, 2010
  Hello, I heard that some people were having trouble with the links to the American Cancer Society.  There are two new ones below so hopefully no one will have any problems with these.  http://action.acscan.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Website_feedback; http://www.cancer.org/Aboutus/Ho...