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Action alert: Call your US senator to support $1 million for national COPD plan
WASHINGTON—US Senators Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Blanche Lincoln, D-Arkansas, have written a “Dear Colleague” letter to Senate members asking their support for a $1 million national COPD prevention and health promotion plan.
The COPD Foundation today issued an action alert advising the COPD and Alpha-1 communities how to urge their own Senator to sign onto the letter.
The letter from Crapo and Lincoln, co-chairs of the COPD Caucus, poionted out that 12 million Americans have been diagnosed with COPD and an additional 10-12 million are believe to have the disease but remain undiagnosed.
The letter seeks an additional $1 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the 2010 fiscal year.
