It's absolutely ridiculous that we let the food industry get away with the shenanigans that we refused to put up with from the tobacco industry. It's time we recognize the damage done and hold those responsible accountable.

I now use a wheelchair due to pain. Aetna has denied a pre-certification from my orthopedic surgeon for a Sacroiliac Joint Fusion. Aetna determined that this potential pain-reducing procedure is not medically necessary. The National Institute of Health has published articles demonstrating the high success of pain reduction of both open and minimally invasive SI Joint Fusion, although minimally invasive has a higher success of pain reduction. Also, implanted instrumentation used in these types of procedures has been approved by the FDA. Aetna uses MCG guidelines to determine this surgical procedure. MCG criteria is motivated to reduce expenses and increase insurance companies’ profits through their products which is why 8 of 10 largest US health plans utilize their services (if they didn’t produce results, MCG would not have clients). Aetna has further denied my surgeon's request for the procedure after the peer to peer review and is slow to respond to my written appeal keeping me in debilitating pain and reducing my pay while I am out on disability.

Gov. Branstad has already closed two of the state's mental health hospitals down, and is now considering closing the last two. We the people need to take a stand and fight for those who need care. Our hospitals are not equipped for this.

The bill continues to promote institutional and coercive approaches to inpatient and outpatient treatment instead of investment in effective community-based mental health services.

Not only because I don't want to force untested drugs into my child, I also believe in freedom of choice. That's why I live in America. The corporate-sponsored government only wants more money from us to support their clients' deep pockets. In the meantime they slowly kill us with cancer. Educate yourselves about vaccines. Cancer causing, formaldehyde, rat poison, and even under-developed human fetuses all made up into one fantastic shot. If I don't force it into my son and daughter I will end up in jail. One day they will force adults to be shot up also. Do it for the children. Save the kids and ourselves. We need 400,000 people to sign petitions to overturn it. There are millions of people in CA. Please help us. Please educate yourself. Sign for freedom.

Lavern's Law would have begun the timeframe during which a patient is legally able to bring a medical malpractice case, on the day that the patient discovered the error, as opposed to the day that the error occurred. But Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan recently prevented the bill from reaching the senate floor for a vote. Lavern Wilkinson died from cancer because doctors didn't inform her that a chest X-ray showed a suspicious mass. When she found out, the statue of limitations had run out, which prevented her from seeking justice.

The Supreme Court just upheld the Affordable Care Act, helping millions of Georgians get access to health care. But Governor Deal still refuses to accept an increase in federal dollars to expand PeachCare and Medicaid, leaving 282,000 Georgians without affordable care. Sign our petition to tell Governor Deal to expand PeachCare and Medicaid now and make our state healthier.

Because after 20 years of hell, I see news about everything I can care less about. And NOTHING ON 1 in 50 American boys smashing their heads into things! I WANT ANSWERS FOR MY tens of thousands of dollars i paid in taxes. And less protecting the real reasons, more science, money. ANSWERS. Yeah, I'm not buying what your selling. This should be the #1 concern in America with Cancer & heart disease. But, I't not.. Hmmmmmmm. WHY? And for the naysayers.......Look up epidemic. You will not find a genetic epidemic. Better diagnoses? You could pic my son out at Grand Central Station in 3 seconds. I dont think 1 in 50 kids just slipped by smashing their faces on walls in the 60's. It was 1 in 10,000 kids then I believe. Thats an EPEDEMIC.

This petition is to legalize marijuana for everyone, except for kids. It's safer than booze and I believe God created the plant for us to use for pain and so forth. Marijuana has no bad side effects.

Unfortunately, only 33% of construction equipment in Oregon meets the cleanest federal standards for diesel engines. Which means until our state passes regulations like California and Washington, the protection of the public from the most dangerous cancer causing air pollution, is in the hands of citizens and individual project managers. The World Health Organization says that exposure to diesel exhaust at ambient levels can cause cancer. Diesel is also known to increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, and cardiovascular disease; exacerbate asthma; and lead to low-weight and pre-term births. Oregon estimates that 460 deaths a year are attributed to diesel exhaust at an annual cost of $3.4 billion dollars. Off road engines, like construction equipment, account for nearly half of the 700 tons of diesel particulates emitted annually in the Portland Metro air shed. But the good news is there is a ready solution at hand. New technology reduces harmful emissions by over 90%. And across the country, municipalities and project leaders, like the executive director of environmental field compliance for Columbia University’s Manhattanville Development Group, are instituting Clean Diesel Contracting Policy to minimize the impact of construction on the daily life of the community and its workers. OHSU should commit first and foremost to not add to Oregon's diesel death toll by enacting a clean diesel contracting policy for the building of its new state of the art cancer center. We have the technology to prevent cancer before it starts. This saves lives and money. Oregon leaders who invested $200 million of public money, and all those 10,000 individuals who donated directly, should expect the project won't cause cancer in the workers that build it or in the community that surrounds it. When it comes to cancer, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So please sign the petition and urge OHSU to set an example by committing to cancer free contracting.

Huge and tremendously good news: The U.S. Supreme Court preserved Obamacare in a stunning 6-3 decision in the case of King v. Burwell! This means that no one will lose health care—or their lives—because of a partisan, ideological lawsuit based on only four words. While observers hoped for a win, few expected that Obamacare would be saved by such a resounding majority, or that the majority would protect the law from future sabotage by a Republican presidential administration. Twice Republicans have tried to defeat Obamacare in the Supreme Court, and failed. Dozens of times they have tried to dismantle it, and been defeated. Even now, the party's 2016 standard-bearers are rushing to promise they will repeal it completely, over the objections of most Americans. But we're not going to let that happen. Right now, we have a huge opportunity to tip the scales of public debate and make Republicans pay a price for their radical desire to rob millions of their health care, and we need to speak out.

Constituents affected by #MedicaidExpansion are low-income US citizens and in today's political environment that has been polluted by money, these citizens have no voice in government.