The Open Letter Campaign is entering a new phase with top health policy experts and notable figures expressing their support for the movement. One of the latest supporters of the Open Letter is the world-renowned surgeon Dr. Edward R. Annis whose impressive accomplishments include serving concurrently as President of the American Medical Association and the World Medical Association from 1963-1964.

The following is Dr. Annis’s statement about the Open Letter:

I started medical practice in 1938 and for the first twenty years after that patients were free to choose their doctors, to agree with their doctors on what was best indicated to take care of any medical problems that required treatment, and to agree to fair and sensible payment for services rendered. For those with low income or no income, realistic adjustments were common practices so that proper treatment could always be provided.

I consider the Open Letter to be a superb document containing easily substantiated facts as to why people have been separated from their doctors and why todays medical costs are so abusive and unjustified.

The answers are in the first paragraph of the Open Letter which summarizes how patients have been separated from their doctors by politics, profits and special interests.

I consider the Open Letter to be an excellent document containing clear and understandable messages that need no additions and I hope that it gets Nationwide distribution to alert the American people.

Ed

Click here to read the Open Letter from America’s Physicians.

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