Somebody really really needs to educate Elizabeth Warren about what she is being asked to do here.

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http://lymedisease.org/news/lymepolicywonk/fda-and-lyme-tests-is-it-simply-vested-interests-protecting-vested-interests.html?utm_source=FDA+and+Lyme+testing&utm_campaign=FDA+%26+other+Aug+news&utm_medium=email#sthash.llkj6OQd.dpuf

These others too.

am deeply concerned that Senator Blumenthal D-CT, who supported the Connecticut antitrust action against the IDSA, is one of the five Senators who signed the letter. The other four are Sen. Edward Markey D-MA; Sen. Elizabeth Warren D-MA; Sen. Sherrod Brown D-OH; and Sen. Richard Durbin D-IL.

This has been a 34 year war between patients, providers, public health; and the FDA/CDC representing big insurance, big pharma, DOD interests (and those Repbulicans who seek control of the populace by any means possible.)

Too much death and suffering has occurred and we only win when we take reams of available scientific evidence that proofs to lawmakers to show them the truth. What our leaders are doing is wrong, one could say evil and has just been shuffled intact from one administration and Congress to the next.

I am too old and sick for this fight any more. I had the disease for 15 years beginning in 1974 before I got a diagnosis and treatment and the treatment was never long enough to get me back on my feet, until three years ago, to stop my decline toward death but the damage is no longer healable. My sister just spent the last 6 months fighting for treatment and a month ago got irrefutable confirmation from one of these tests that she had Lyme despite about 20 approved tests that said no. Insurance companies do not have to pay for them because they are not FDA approved but now they want to make sure that you cannot find out if you have Lyme by paying for a test that works. The others do not work more than 50% of the time. False negative. Flipping a coin would give you better odds than the approved tests.