To: Governor Gina Raimondo
RI Governor Raimondo, Please Endorse and Enforce Our Forgotten Lyme Laws.
This petition is a request to the Governor of the State of Rhode Island to endorse and enforce our forgotten Lyme laws and help to restore hope, faith and trust in the medical delivery system for our tick borne diseases.
Why is this important?
Dear Governor Raimondo,
In 2002 and 2004 Rhode Island passed two new laws guaranteeing doctors the freedom to treat Lyme disease as they clinically see fit as long as it is well documented. RI GL § 5-37.5-4. In addition, insurance payments for these treatments shall not be denied “because such treatment may be characterized as unproven, experimental, or investigational in nature.” RI GL 27-18/29/20 “Mandatory coverage for certain Lyme disease treatments.”
However, these lawfully enacted rights and freedoms have been purposefully obscured, denied, and totally disregarded since their enactment.
This failure to regard the law has caused truly unmeasurable amounts of physical, financial, emotional and spiritual pain and suffering for many citizens in the state of Rhode Island.
Total individual financial burdens in our state reach well into the millions of dollars, expenses paid out of pocket for treatments and medicines denied and “forbidden”. Doctors continue to live in fear, with many refusing any Lyme patient, and others working “under the radar”.
We ask that you insure enforcement of our Lyme laws, and thereby fully establish our rights and freedoms for competent, compassionate and fear free care for the tick borne diseases in Rhode Island.
Thank You/Signed Your Name
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National and international signatures welcome!
And please do comment, particularly if you, your family members, animals and pets, friends or acquaintances live, work and/or “play” in Rhode Island and have been challenged by the inability of our medical delivery system to deliver, accurate, humane and compassionate care for our tick borne diseases. And please, do share, good numbers do count, and every one of your signatures are important.
To Good Health,
And Thank You...
LymeTimeInRI @ gmail, FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn
In 2002 and 2004 Rhode Island passed two new laws guaranteeing doctors the freedom to treat Lyme disease as they clinically see fit as long as it is well documented. RI GL § 5-37.5-4. In addition, insurance payments for these treatments shall not be denied “because such treatment may be characterized as unproven, experimental, or investigational in nature.” RI GL 27-18/29/20 “Mandatory coverage for certain Lyme disease treatments.”
However, these lawfully enacted rights and freedoms have been purposefully obscured, denied, and totally disregarded since their enactment.
This failure to regard the law has caused truly unmeasurable amounts of physical, financial, emotional and spiritual pain and suffering for many citizens in the state of Rhode Island.
Total individual financial burdens in our state reach well into the millions of dollars, expenses paid out of pocket for treatments and medicines denied and “forbidden”. Doctors continue to live in fear, with many refusing any Lyme patient, and others working “under the radar”.
We ask that you insure enforcement of our Lyme laws, and thereby fully establish our rights and freedoms for competent, compassionate and fear free care for the tick borne diseases in Rhode Island.
Thank You/Signed Your Name
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National and international signatures welcome!
And please do comment, particularly if you, your family members, animals and pets, friends or acquaintances live, work and/or “play” in Rhode Island and have been challenged by the inability of our medical delivery system to deliver, accurate, humane and compassionate care for our tick borne diseases. And please, do share, good numbers do count, and every one of your signatures are important.
To Good Health,
And Thank You...
LymeTimeInRI @ gmail, FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn