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TRICARE recently refused to pay for HBOT 1.5 therapy for two members of the Armed Forces who were referred for treatment by their military physician. Further, TRICARE has stated that congress required them to pay for experimental cancer therapy but not for anything else. Untreated traumatic brain injury is just as deadly as cancer.

So, Dr. Bill Duncan, our lobbyist in Washington, D.C., crafted HR 7299, and Congressman Cannon and Congresswoman Napolitano introduced it for you. This bill requires VA and TRICARE to pay for TBI and PTSD treatments that work. Since hyperbaric oxygen treatments have worked 100% of the time for veterans of this war, and has reduced TBI and PTSD symptoms and allowed the vast majority to return to gainful employment, it will qualify and be reimbursed to the treating centers 30 days after treatment.

Join this historic effort! Write your Member of Congress today! We have a very good chance of having this legislation added to the first legislation to pass in the New Obama Congress!

We have a historic opportunity to change medical policy in America not only for veterans but for EVERYONE. Once VA and Tricare do this, it will be a small step to establish the same principles for Medicare and Medicaid.
United, the community can make this happen. DC & HR 7299 Bill PDF

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Dear Senator/Representative: (The correct name will be added in here)

On November 20th, 2008, Representatives Cannon and Napolitano introduced HR 7299, "To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make payments for certain treatments of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder."

Please contact Congresswoman Napolitano to cosponsor HR 7299 in the 110th Congress or the new bill in the 111th. Hundreds of thousands of our veterans need effective treatment right now and this legislation will make it possible.

The bill requires the VA or TRICARE to pay for ANY treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that WORKS. Payment will be made to any treatment facility within 30 days that 1) is delivered using an already FDA approved drug or device; 2) follows an IRB-approved protocol; 3) for which there is improvement on standardized independent pre-treatment and post-treatment neuropsychological testing or accepted survey instruments or neurological imaging or clinical examination.

For example, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) delivered at 1.5 atmospheres has caused 100% of the veterans recently treated to have significant improvements. Veterans' TBI and PTSD symptoms have resolved or been significantly improved. Eighty percent of those veterans, who were previously unable to work, have been able to return to gainful employment. TRICARE and the VA have refused to pay for this treatment even though they pay for 13 other approved HBOT indications. The science is clear. It is only prejudice in medicine, and a lack of understanding of clear science that has held back this treatment.

[PLACE YOUR PERSONAL COMMENTS BELOW. TELL THE CONGRESS MEMBER HOW THIS TREATMENT HAS HELPED YOUR FAMILY, OR YOUR SITUATION OR YOUR FAMILY'S SITUATION THAT IS PREVENTING YOU FROM RECEIVING TREATMENT. CONGRESS MAKES DECISIONS BASED UPON THESE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, THE EXPERIENCES OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR THEM.]

The veterans of this war need help right now, and there is a treatment protocol that has been used for many years to treat brain injury. See the science at http://www.hyperbaricmedicalfoundation.org/392/. Please support HR 7299 or its successor legislation and make sure it is put onto the first bill that moves through Congress to get our veterans help now.