[IP] unauthorized mass mailings to politicians...
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Date: December 8, 2005 2:18:40 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: unauthorized mass mailings to politicians...
Dave,
Feel free to pass on to the list if you deem the following to be
relevant
to other IP readers (but please remove my actual email address).
Apparently some group or individual has decided to write Legislators
using
information gleaned from an external database to make the letter seem to
be coming from a constituent. Coincidentally, I had been approached
by a
friend earlier today asking if I knew anything about three emails he had
received. They purported to be from him, using his normal ISP
address, to
the correct Senators and Representative and urged them to stand against
S. 406/H.R. 525. Now I was just cleaning up my mail and see that at
around 20:00 this evening, I also "sent my legislators" the same
message.
However, as I almost always create mail aliases to see who's selling any
data, so it was easy to see this was not from my normal email
address, but
from tml-allfreegifts-com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This has me wondering how
many other constituents "wrote their rep" today and how often this
type of
bogus action is occurring to drive the outcome of a particular piece of
legislation.
Content of one of the original messages to legislators follows but a
quick
check of the headers show this mail originated from a mailmanager.net
server with a return path address of mail.relay@xxxxxxxxxx; both of
these
domains are owned & managed by Capitol Advantage
(www.CAPITOLADVANTAGE.COM) out of Fairfax, VA.
Regards,
--Tim
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T Lyons
<DELETED Full Address>
December 7, 2005
The Honorable Stephen F. Lynch
House of Representatives
319 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-2109
Re: Federal AHPs: An Open Door to Fraud
Dear Representative Lynch:
Like most Americans, I am concerned about rising healthcare costs and
the
growing number of uninsured Americans. However, I believe that
legislation
that would create federal Association Health Plans (AHPs) – the Small
Business Health Fairness Act of 2005, S. 406/H.R. 525 – is not the
answer
to either of these challenges.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that AHPs would actually
result
in higher premiums for 80 percent of participants. Experts also predict
that AHPs would result in even more uninsured Americans.
Equally troubling, AHPs would be exempt from important state laws,
patient
protections, and other safeguards – increasing the risk for fraud and
abuse. In the last year alone, I've read that failures of association-
type
health plans have left more than 100,000 participants with over $85
million in unpaid medical bills.
I believe that AHPs would hurt, not help improve, our nation's
healthcare
system. I urge you to oppose federal AHP legislation like S. 406/H.R.
525.
I look forward to your response on this important issue.
Sincerely,
T Lyons
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