NEWS: Another NY newspaper calls for Cuomo to sign Lyme bill
The Daily Gazette, from Schenectady, New York, says the governor should sign the bill and “let doctors do what’s necessary.”
From the Daily Gazette, November 14, 2014:
With the Polar Vortex upon us and the Ebola scare closer in the rearview mirror than it appears, right now might seem like an odd time to be talking about Lyme disease.
But the governor and the state Legislature will return to Albany soon, and on their desks is a bill that could help treat this terrible, growing tick-borne illness.
The legislation, entitled the Patients’ Rights/Doctor Protection bill (S.7854/A.7558B), would enable doctors to use effective forms of long-term treatment on patients with Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses without fear of being charged with professional misconduct or loss of medical license.
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ABOUT THE BILL:
Bill S7854 – A7558B is crucial to the welfare of NY Lyme patients. There are diverse opinions in the medical community about how to treat many diseases – especially Lyme disease, where there are 2 medically accepted standards of care. This bill protects all NY patients’ rights to choose peer-reviewed evidence-based treatments by protecting doctors, who treated chronic Lyme disease with long-term antibiotics from unfounded harassment. Bill S7854 prohibits the investigation of any claim of medical professional misconduct based solely on treatment “that is not universally accepted by the medical profession.”
How about a bill to allow patients to choose their preferred method of treatment for lyme and compel insurance carriers pay for it. I think it is great that drs can practice without fear, but the exorbitant costs of visits and meds and insurance carriers refusing to pay is a real crime. More and more people will then be forced to forfeit treatment, because of the prohibitive costs.