The new appointee for Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health has had prior improper actions soliciting complaints against our local beloved doctor who treats Lyme disease. Her actions violated Rhode Island state law and also the code of confidentiality of the Department of Health. We urge the governor to find a new appointee who believes in proper treatment of Lyme disease! Your constituents are suffering! Please hear us.

We want healthcare coverage for all California residents. SB 04 would amend current Covered CA regulations and allow undocumented residents of the state to purchase their own health care plans in the Covered CA insurance exchange. It would also stop unjust taxation of these undocumented residents for not having health care coverage; health care coverage they currently cannot purchase under current Covered CA regulations.

The IRIS program that allows disabled persons or their families to manage their needs. My grandson Carter has severe cerebral palsy and is non-verbal. His homecare services are highly specialized for his unique needs and require a great deal of patience, training and coordination by parents and nursing staff. Experience has show us that agencies do not have the staffing consistencies to deal with these special needs. Independently, the family has been able to use funding to find nurses who have caring for Carter for 12 years. Please don't take that away from us. Wisconsin has led the nation with the IRIS program. Help us continue IRIS.

To provide a unified voice for protecting survivors of catastrophic injuries who rely on these benefits; to preserve the nation’s best system for future survivors; to advocate for family, friends, and caring staff of those survivors of catastrophic injuries, lessening the burden of rehabilitation and around-the-clock care. SB 248 would cost tens of thousands of jobs, devastate an industry, and cost the Michigan taxpayers billions of dollars.

Vaccinations, like any medical intervention, carry with it potential benefits and risks. And like any medication or medical intervention, we as patients, and citizens, have the right to research this intervention, and weigh the risks and benefits of the procedure and decline it if we choose. This is the foundation of informed consent, to which the standard of medical care is held and to, which all people have the right. This right to informed consent and our ability to choose what medical procedure and interventions we and our children are subjected to is under attack at a state and national level. We need to send lawmakers a clear message that we will not consent to having our right to informed consent stripped away by any law that seeks to mandate vaccines in adults or children and/or seeks to deny the right to education, employment or government services to citizens based on vaccination status.

Four generations in my family have been involved in healthcare, mostly in Louisiana. We need to benefit all people by using federal dollars, along with state and individual resources, wisely for healthcare in Louisiana.

I need cannabis for health care.

In February 2015, the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Governor Branstad's Medicaid Modernization, putting the state Medicaid services in a private Managed Care system. The start date is the earliest of any other such conversions. A rush to transform a human services program affecting around 560,000 Iowans, the state's biggest procurement by private entity(s), has the potential of causing severe negative effects. It takes time to ensure that services fully benefiting the recipients are in place and won’t be withdrawn and avenues of communication are created for all parties to convey the program's purposes and outcomes.

As a Family Practice Physician in Louisiana who accepts Obamacare, I am seeing a lot of new patients with serious medical problems who have had no affordable access to ANY healthcare for years. They people truly need a doctor! And those I am seeing have ACA insurance via private, for-profit, insurance companies. There are still a lot of people who could have better access to needed care, with no increased cost to the state, had our Gov. not refused increased federal help! It's okay to want to make a point, no matter how heartless, but do not even think of doing such a callous thing at the expense of the lives and health of the people who live in LA! Please sign if you agree!

I have a very painful, incurable cancer and chemo has many negative side effects that medicinal cannabis could help alleviate. Please allow me the freedom to choose!

I never knew how much sugar could be hurting my ability to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight. I've been overweight for 3 years, and I'm only now starting to see results in weight loss after paying attention to sugar content and processed foods with unnecessary sugar products in them. It's long past due to hold big food companies accountable for their role in the epidemic of childhood obesity, and to hold those in office accountable for supporting big food in return for monetary payouts.

SB 1531 was a rushed bill enacted after Oregon legalized medical marijuana facilities in 2014. It was a ridiculous bill to begin with, but it became null and void on May 1, 2015. Malheur County and its elected officials are breaking the law and many are being negatively impacted to the point of constant pain, mental anguish and even long-term hospitalization. Malheur County is in trouble for many reasons...this is merely the tip of the iceberg.