I an an RN and I am outraged by the acts of pharmaceutical companies using the tragic loss of human life to make obscene profits.

Our profoundly developmentally/physically disabled children/residents Anthony, Arthur, George, Paula and one additional resident will face a catastrophic future if Brook Street is no longer state funded/operated with the present staff. Also join us in opposing changes to all Connecticut group homes and facilities. These residents need your help - please support them by signing this petition.

Antibiotics are a miracle of modern medicine, and are designed to be given in precise doses, to treat specific illnesses and infections. But once big farming operations discovered that a regular dose of antibiotics promoted rapid growth and prevented disease in their livestock, they started to routinely put lifesaving medicines into the daily feed of healthy animals. The result? Bacteria that come into contact with those animals grow resistant to antibiotics. Already two million people fall ill, and 23,000 people die each year from drug-resistant infections -- and that was before the arrival of mcr-1, a gene carried by bacteria that can resist even our last resort antibiotics. Superbugs aren't taking their time, and neither can we. Call on the FDA to stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms.

Mosquito season is arriving, and the Center for Disease Control just warned that there's an urgent threat of a Zika outbreak in the United States. How did Congress respond? By taking a two-week vacation—in spite of Democrats' push to stay on and pass an emergency bill. Republicans have been insisting that funds to fight Zika come out of the money already set aside to fight Ebola. That's madness. We shouldn't have to choose between Ebola and Zika—it's our government's job to protect us from both. Please sign and share this petition to urge members of Congress to get their act together and protect the public!

Governor Walker and the Wisconsin Legislature eliminated IRIS, the nation's largest self-directed services program, in the 2015-2017 WI state budget when they voted to completely overhaul our long-term care system in favor of big insurance taking over. The people did not want this and aging and disability experts advised against it. The WI Department of Health Services & legislators said this overhaul had to happen to control costs. Facts show that this is not true. Health care costs, the real cost-driver, can be addressed without disrupting our long-term care system. We ask the legislature to listen to the people & the experts and to follow the facts, not the big insurance lobby. Please Save IRIS and leave Family Care alone.

There have been a number of bills introduced and a lot of talk about the issue, but none that's gotten a passing vote. As the virus starts in on many parts of the United States, those with poor access to health care are most affected. As a Florida resident, I'm concerned for my neighbors, and myself, and want to see my leaders act to help us.

As a veteran, it strikes close to home for me to see fellow vets and other poor citizens in need of healthcare go without. Edited to add: because my petition has signers, I can't update the text of the petition, all I can do is change the title(which I did) and put a note in here that the actual program we are looking to expand in NE is Medicaid, NOT Medicare. Sorry for all the confusion this has caused.

The FDA has ruled that all vape technology is considered tobacco products. This means that small businesses and thousands of jobs that can't afford to pay the millions of dollars in testing will be lost and the FDA will earn more money from giant tobacco companies and big pharmaceutical companies. We must stop this over-step. This ruling means that the vaping industry will come to a grinding hault and many people who have successfully quit smoking will be forced back to cigarettes. This means more money for big tobacco and more money to big pharmaceutical companies. We finally have a safer solution to the smoking epidemic, but our government ignores this fact because it will lose money. Millions of lives can be saved with this new technology, yet the FDA is seeking to stop it before it can be widely accepted. I urge our local, state, and federal governments to fight back towards the FDA and tell them that this kind of obstruction will not stand.

Because i have worked with victims of drug abuse in northeast Montana for many years, I see there is a need for an organization like this, as many children are lost in a system that is overburdened with these types of problems.

As stated, marijuana is a natural plant. It could help with MANY illnesses. Cannabis has been proven scientifically to help cancer patients and those who suffer with appetite loss . Even anxiety and mental illnesses have been helped as well as ADD, ADHD are a few others. It HELPS people, and not hurt them.

Being the guardian of a resident, it is my moral responsibility to keep a promise to her late mother that I would not abandon her daughter. Kindly sign this petition and pass it on to your friends. Thank you. Hedwige

Hold the CDC accountable for the destruction of evidence, lying to Congress, for the sake of saving face & lying to Congress. While our children babies, are dying, being maimed with horrified parents. And no one from the CDC has gone to jail yet.