Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is holding $16 billion in federal funds hostage, because he hates the Affordable Care Act. As a direct result, over 242,000 Louisiana residents are unable to get Medicaid—and are currently without health insurance. But we can let the people of Louisiana decide—63% of whom support Medicaid expansion. Senate Bill 96 would put Medicaid expansion on the November ballot. Sign the petition to the Louisiana state legislature: Let Louisiana vote on Medicaid expansion by voting “yes” on Senate Bill 96.

The government should organize a "Federal Health Insurance Corporation" along the lines of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (for banks) to provide health insurance. Premiums should be set just high enough to cover the costs of providing benefits and adjusted regularly. This would make the F.H.I.C. revenue neutral, yet would provide significant savings for those who elect to purchase health insurance through this public option.

We need to do everything possible to control the cost of health care. Even with reductions mandated by the Affordable Care Act, private, for-profit health insurance companies add 15-20% to the cost of health care in the United States of America without adding anything in terms of quality or quantity of health care. This compares to the 3% overhead of the Medicare program.

Are veterans who served there are now fighting for their lives and in cases we don't hear about, they are dieing! They did their duty and suffer from it, now it is time to give back to them.

Every child in Pennsylvania should have access to CHIP, regardless of their immigration status. Please remove the barriers in the current Cover All Kids legislation so that thousands of Pennsylvania children can access comprehensive health coverage.

Our UNM Center for Reproductive Health provides a full range of necessary and important medical services. This Center is vital to our community and we want to express our gratitude to the doctors and staff that provide vital reproductive healthcare. Sign our petition to say THANK YOU! When you sign we will add your name to a THANK YOU banner to be delivered to the UNMCRH.

I grew up in Long Beach and I know how the residents have suffered from Sandy. They have to be transported to another hospital via one old draw bridge that very often gets stuck or goes up due to boating. People die unnecessarily and we recently lost one of our own last week. A young husband and father of four. Politics and the fact that the hospital site overlooks our bay has made it prime real estate. It will be going to auction so I beg you, please help us.

Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program. As part of ObamaCare, Medicaid has expanded to include many more adults. Under a 1993 Federal law, California has decided to take back the full cost of nearly all medical services for recipients age 55 and older by billing their estates after they die. The majority of states have chosen not to do this. Medi-Cal “estate recovery” is a deterrent to signing people up for Medi-Cal. California’s plan forces low-income individuals to choose either receiving basic health care OR passing on their homes and other assets to their children. Indeed, the full cost of Medi-Cal services from age 55 until the time of death will often be greater than the value of the estate. Then California will be able to take everything and leave nothing for the children of the deceased. SB1124 has been introduced into the California State Senate. Should it become law, “estate recovery” will be limited to that which is required by Federal law - the costs of nursing home and long-term in-home and community-based care.

Since September 11, 2011, over 30,000 service members have been discharged for mental conditions that do not amount to a disability. Research supports that some of these conditions can be directly related to their military service. Currently service members discharged for medical conditions not amounting to disability can have their status reviewed. This right should also be extended to those with mental conditions.

I have been a supporter of health care reform and worked to make sure that the Affordable Health Care Act or Obamacare was passed. One of the many benefits for society assured that no one would loose their homes due to health care expenses. My husband and I (age 60 and 63) have been newly enrolled in Medi-Cal. We qualify for this program due to the changes in income and asset eligibility. We own a small family daycare home which provides low cost preschool and childcare in Auburn. After a lifetime of work, like other middle class families, we have just finished paying for our home. We signed up for Medi-Cal thinking that our assets were protected under the ACA. No where in the application process was I told about the Medi-Cal Estate Recovery Program. Due to a recent notice form Medi-Cal I have been informed that due to our age group (55-64) that care or services delivered through Medi-Cal are fully billable to our estate upon our death. That means our home, which is our only substantial asset, will be subject to a government lien to pay for prescriptions, doctor's visits, hospitalizations and beyond. As it stands today, Medi-Cal is not health care for low income seniors but a loan program with homes, cars, life insurance, stocks, retirement funds, virtually any asset serving as collateral. As we know, a week's stay in a hospital with surgery for any reason can easily amount to the total value of a home in California. For someone with an expensive monthly prescription the cost over 10 years time could be substantial. This is surely not the intent of the Affordable Health Care Act with it's Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California) expansion. Please help Medi-Cal seniors like myself and my husband obtain the same financial security as those who purchase subsidized insurance through the exchanges, purchase health insurance, or receive health insurance as a benefit through their work. Please help by signing this petition urging Governor Brown and the California State Legislature to take immediate action to change the certain risk that the Medi-Cal Estate Recovery Program posses to the assets of low income seniors in California. Please due it now. Please, before you or someone you know looses their inheritance due to their parent's enrollment in Medi-Cal. Thank you for helping!

Anti-choice politicians in Louisiana are moving fast on a bill that could close three of the five abortion clinics statewide. Just like in the 1960s, women might be forced to cross state lines for the nearest provider to get the health care she needs. We’ve seen what happens when women in entire regions lose access to abortion. In Texas, where abortion is impossible to get in the entire southwest of the state, women have been willing to risk going to Mexico to get the abortion pill and self-inducing abortion. Gov. Bobby Jindal said he supports this bill, but his administration caved once to public pressure when it tried to close abortion clinics a few months ago through a sneaky regulatory maneuver. Does Gov. Jindal really want it to be his signature that puts Louisiana at the center of the abortion debate for months to come? We must send a strong message to Gov. Jindal: don’t make Louisiana the next Texas.

When the Republican controlled Florida House and Senate voted to deny Medicaid expansion, they chose a death sentence for many! Harvard and other studies show over 45,000 Americans die every year because of lack of affordable health care and insurance to prevent bankruptcy if they choose medicine or treatment to live. Educators, for example, constantly see the impact of poor legislative decisions and know many of their students cannot function effectively when they are hungry, ill or worried about being homeless or their parents being out of work. Citizens can read about, if they do not know personally, people who die or become victims of treatable and curable conditions because they either do not have insurance or access to affordable health care. Our brave veterans who have been disabled protecting us are often in greatest need of medical care and economic assistance. Republicans who vote against their own citizens should be replaced by caring, compassionate, humans who will make the best decisions to help eliminate poverty and provide adequate health care for all!