Dump Mike Ferguson (NJ7)

Congressman Mike Ferguson voted yesterday to approve the conference report Patriot Act. More to come.

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If you are on Medicare or Medicaid and want to keep your personal information private from pharmaceutical marketing companies, you do not have a supporter in Mike Ferguson.

As part of the budget bill HR 3010 that will fund Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and some related agencies, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY 22) proposed the following amendment:

Amendment sought to prohibit funds in the bill from being used to distribute the personal information of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to private companies for marketing Medicare prescription drug plans.

This amendment would secure the personal information of millions of disabled, widowed and elderly Americans – including home addresses, phone numbers and the fact that you are receiving Medicare benefits – who receive prescription drug benefits from being handed out to anyone who starts a company marketing a prescription drug card under the 2002 prescription drug benefit.

Mike Ferguson voted against protecting your private information from business interests who just want to make a buck off you.

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