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Hi everybody, this is Brad.

I'd like to ask a favor from all of Carter's North Carolina fans. The NC state legislature will be voting in the next few days on a new state budget that will decrease/eliminate Medicaid access to physical, occupational, and speech therapies. If this passes, it would have devestating effects on people that REQUIRE these services. As an occupational therapist and a parent of a child who relies on these services, I find this very alarming.

Please take a minute to email or call your local state representatives and senators and tell them that PT, OT, and ST are NOT luxuries. They are extremely important to Carter and many other kids/adults who are having developmental, medical, or sensory programs. You can find your local legislators at http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/homePage.pl. They will be listed under the House and Senate links with the counties they represent to the right. I would also encourage you to email/call Governor Beverly Perdue and express your concerns over this budget to her office (http://www.governor.state.nc.us/).

Carter (and his parents and therapists) thank you in advance for your attention to this. Below is a form letter that you can copy/paste into an email to your legislators and the governor.

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to express my concerns over the proposed cuts to therapy funding in the NC state budget. The current budget would call for a complete elimination of Medicaid access to therapy services for adults and most children. Thousands of children and adults in this state rely on physical, occupational, and speech therapy to overcome developemental, sensory, and medical problems. Without these services, these people would be unable to grow, develop, or function.

Please do not vote to reduce or eliminate patients' access to these vital services.