Allergy & Asthma Day Capitol Hill 2012

On May 10, 2012 AANMA goes to Capitol Hill for our 15^th annual Allergy & Asthma Day Capitol Hill (AADCH) with a message for Congress:

Ensure patients have access to

-Asthma and allergy care that meets national guidelines and
-Current, approved, life-saving technology.

Join AANMA's nationwide virtual march to Capitol Hill on Wed., May 9, 2012! You can help spread our message without going any further than your computer, phone or smartphone. It takes about 5 minutes, tops. Here's how:

1.      Use this link to look up your Congressional representative: www.house.gov/representatives   

2.      Write a quick e-mail or make a call to your rep. See our sample e-mail/phonecall below - for e-mail, just copy and paste then fill in the blanks. 

Contact AANMA at sfwalker@aanma.org or 800-878-4403 ext. 1524 if you have any questions.  AANMA would love to hear how your representative responded and if you'd like us to follow up with anyone from their staff. Thank you for taking the time to speak out on behalf of people and their families who live with allergies and asthma. Together we can make a difference!  

Sample e-mail/phone call:

Hello, I am a constituent and would like to ask my representative to please support Allergy & Asthma Day Capitol Hill (AADCH), which will be held at the Rayburn Building onThurs., May 10, 2012. The Representative and staff are invited to attend the Congressional Briefing at 9 a.m. in Room 2103, and the Health and Technology Fair at 11:30 a.m. in the Rayburn Foyer.  

Here is a link to a letter from some of the day's supporters in Congress: 
http://www.aanma.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Dear-Colleague-letter-2012.pdf

(I /my child/my patient) have/has asthma and here's how it affects our lives. (Share your story.)

The event is sponsored by Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA), a national nonprofit organization I support. If you would like to learn more about AADCH, please visit www.aanma.org/aadch or contact Sandra Fusco-Walker, AANMA's director of patient advocacy, at 703-641-9595 ext. 1524. 

I look forward to hearing back from you and hope that (the Representative) will sign on as a sponsor of Allergy & Asthma Day Capitol Hill 2012.

Sincerely,

(Your name

Address

Phone number/E-mail address)