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Contact your local Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) chapter today!
The IDSA has declared war on patients and we must continue to FIGHT BACK.
Tick season is upon us and the new IDSA Lyme disease guidelines issued last fall are endangering you and your loved ones!
These Guidelines:
 Guarantee people will not be diagnosed & treated in time
Empower insurance companies to deny treatment coverage
Threaten your physician’s ability to treat
Call/Write/E-mail the societies and chapters listed on the IDSA Links Page ==>
Points to make:
If you did not receive a timely diagnosis; stress the increased burden this placed on you, your family, loss of income, loss of job/school and additional costs to society.
Point out treatments that were denied by your insurance company – especially those denials that referenced the IDSA guidelines.
Make the connection that guidelines today = what insurance companies will cover.
Question what influence insurance companies had on these new guidelines. What was the purpose of listing treatment protocols and supplements NOT to use? Guidelines should offer suggestions for treatment protocols not attack/discredit others.
Ask why the IDSA guidelines do not mention there are two standards of care; ILADS and IDSA.
Ask why the IDSA falsely represents that their guidelines are the ONLY treatment option.
Are they willing to risk the lives of so many before adequate research has been done and the scientific controversy resolved?
Until the questions surrounding Lyme disease are answered with science we can not allow one small group of 16 people to dictate medical care.
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