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earlier this week, a form letter and senate/congress addresses were

emailed to you, but the blocks complete email addresses, so I

have posted the letters and addresses at the following two links. use

as you please. pass this bill, write off your loans and go enjoy

country living, at last.

 

http://www.spiritone.com/~herb-t/senate.html

 

http://www.spiritone.com/~herb-t/congress.html

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> Resent-<

> Jack Miller <jmiller

> January 30, 2005 11:30:32 AM PST

> <faculty-sd

> FW: Loan forgiveness

>

> This is what we could do if we worked together.

>

> Jack Miller, L.Ac., M.A. (Educ.)

> President/CEO

> Pacific College of Oriental Medicine

> jmiller

> www.pacificcollege.edu

>

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2004

>

> Congress Directs $2 Million to Chiropractic Student Loan Program

>

> Arlington, Va. (Dec. 17, 2004) - President Bush signed into law

> on Dec.

> 8 legislation that includes a directive from Congress to provide $2

> million

> in funding to expand and extend a pilot program allowing doctors of

> chiropractic to participate in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC)

> student loan repayment program. The chiropractic provision, contained

> in the

> conference report to accompany HR 4818, was sponsored by Senators Tom

> Harkin

> (D-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), and backed by the American

> Chiropractic

> Association (ACA) and the Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC).

>

> " This is yet another important milestone in the ACA's battle to

> ensure

> that chiropractic care is fully included in all federal health care

> programs, " said ACA President Donald Krippendorf, DC. " Doctors of

> chiropractic belong in the National Health Service Corps because we

> have a

> unique and important role to play in providing millions of Americans in

> underserved areas with the care they need. Thanks to Tom Harkin and

> Arlen

> Specter -- two great leaders who understand the value of chiropractic

> to the

> nation's health care system -- there will be new opportunities for DCs

> and

> better health care for patients. "

>

> " This a great victory, particularly for the chiropractic college

> students who are ready, willing and able to serve in the NHSC, " said

> Jean

> Moss, DC, president of ACC and the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic

> College.

> " This is an historic time on the campuses of our chiropractic colleges

> -

> with not only the new funding for the chiropractic program in the

> National

> Health Service Corps, but also the increasing role of doctors of

> chiropractic in the veterans and military health care systems and the

> potential to end decades of anti-chiropractic discrimination in

> Medicare

> through the Medicare Chiropractic Demonstration Project. "

>

> In 2002, Congress approved ACC- and ACA-backed legislation

> establishing

> a special pilot program to assess the impact of making chiropractic

> care

> more available in communities served by the National Health Service

> Corps.

> Under this program in 2003, eight DCs who had entered into employment

> contracts with eligible community health centers around the United

> States

> and submitted applications to the government were selected to serve as

> the

> first chiropractors in the NHSC student loan repayment program. These

> DCs

> began receiving tax-exempt student loan reimbursements up to $25,000

> per

> year to continue during a two- or three-year service commitment.

>

> Following selection of this initial group of DCs, from a pool of

> about

> 90 applicants, NHSC officials unexpectedly -- and counter to their

> orders

> from Capitol Hill -- announced that the program was closed and would be

> evaluated without additional groups of DCs being added. The ACA and ACC

> vigorously protested this decision and worked together not just to

> overturn

> it, but also to support new legislation to expand and extend

> chiropractic

> participation in the NHSC and the student loan repayment program. The

> ACA/ACC advocacy effort - launched officially at the National

> Chiropractic

> Legislative Conference in March 2004 - successfully secured support

> from

> Senators Harkin and Specter, Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.) and other

> pro-chiropractic leaders in Congress and culminated with final

> approval by

> Congress of the conference report on HR 4818 on Dec. 6, 2004.

>

> Earlier this year, after hearing from ACA members, the Senate

> Appropriations Committee voted on Sept. 15 to register concern about

> the

> handling of the NHSC chiropractic pilot and approved a funding

> directive to

> expand and extend the program. The Appropriations panel's report to

> accompany the FY 2005 appropriations measure for the Department of

> Health

> and Human Services states:

> " ...The Committee is concerned that funding provided for this

> demonstration

> in fiscal year 2003 resulted in only eight chiropractic demonstrations

> nationwide. The purpose of the demonstration program was to collect

> data on

> comprehensive patient outcomes associated with community health

> centers that

> provided chiropractic services … the Committee believes that eight

> chiropractors is not a statistically significant figure and conclusions

> cannot be safely drawn from this part of the demonstration. Therefore,

> the

> Committee expects HRSA to use these funds to conduct another

> demonstration

> on a cohort of exclusively chiropractors and report to the committee

> on the

> findings. "

>

> The NHSC, administered by an agency within the U.S. Department of

> Health and Human Services, assists medically underserved communities to

> recruit and retain primary care clinicians, including dental and

> mental and

> behavioral health professionals, to serve in their community. More than

> 23,000 health professionals have served with NHSC since 1972. Current

> field

> strength totals more than 2,700 clinicians/health care professionals

> whose

> careers are influencing the outcomes of underserved populations and

> communities. Many clinicians have remained in service after fulfilling

> their

> initial NHSC commitments.

>

>

>

>

> ------ End of Forwarded Message

>

>

 

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