Health care should be a right for everyone. Many low income, working Virginians are caught in the gap between Medicaid and affordable health insurance. These Virginia residents deserve to have their health care needs met. Medicaid expansion will allow all Virginians to be covered when they need medical care.

I think it's immoral to prevent Virginia's working poor from receiving the benefits of Medicaid. What Bobby Jindal is doing in LA will come to haunt him as he makes his constituency unable to get these benefits. It is shameful to use political ideology to hurt the uninsured.

I work with clients who have no health insurance and cannot afford to get their medical problems dealt with. These people create problems for health care in VA by going to emergency rooms to deal with health problems. This increases the cost of health care for everyone because hospitals pass on the cost to those who have health insurance.

Why would you not want everyone in the state to have healthcare coverage? What is the purpose of poor people not being able to afford healthcare? You have it, don't you? Think about others and not being selfish or the Republican Party agenda.

The Virginia legislature is meeting in a special session to consider the Virginia budget and the expansion of Medicaid eligibility. The cost of the Medicaid expansion will be paid 100% by federal dollars during the first three years, and 90% after that. Our state delegate, Jim LeMunyon, opposes the expansion of Medicaid -- meaning that federal taxes paid by Virginians are going to other states and not ours. Medicaid expansion will enable hard-working poor and lower-middle class Virginians to have access to health care. Please sign this petition to let Mr. LeMunyon know that it just makes common sense to expand Medicaid in Virginia.

Reform Medicaid, don't deny it. I work in Healthcare, I see the suffering of the uninsured and the duplication of services and waste in the current system.

Providing healthcare for the poor and disabled through Medicaid expansion will save Virginia money. It also is the moral thing to do.

Expanding Medicaid access to Virginia's poor and disabled is the right thing to do on so many fronts. It will save lives. It will create jobs. And it will save Virginia taxpayers billions of dollars every year.

I believe that every society needs to make it possible for it's citizens to receive good healthcare!

The purpose of this petition is to ask Del. Terry Kilgore of Virginia's District 1 to vote in favor of Medicaid expansion in Virginia. We want to ask him to do what is right for Virginians, all Virginians, including approximately 191,000 citizens of this state that are uninsured and waiting to see if their elected officials will do what's right for them. This is something that should be common sense, as it won't create extra financial burden for the state nor will it create extra burden on hospitals or doctors' offices. The federal government will be paying for Virginia to expand Medicaid, and roughly 30,000 new jobs will be created, many of which will be in the medical field. This has already passed through the state Senate and is favored by Virginia citizens. All that's needed is for a few members of the Virginia House of Delegates to approve this measure. That is all that is blocking the 191,000 Virginians from getting much-needed medical insurance. Most of these people are Virginia's working poor, some of which must hold two or three jobs and still cannot make ends meet, let alone afford insurance. Why not make an investment in Virginia's citizens, including the poor, the disabled, and the working middle class, by giving them the security of knowing they will have both preventative care as well as treatment for illness and injury? We are asking Del. Terry Kilgore to have empathy for these 191,000 Virginia citizens, and the many future generations that could experience better health and quality of life because of Medicaid expansion. Many of Delegate Kilgore's own constituency would greatly benefit from having increased access to healthcare services. As a voting citizen of District 1 I feel strongly that If Del. Kilgore were to support this expansion, it would show voting citizens in his own district that he does care and take seriously their ability to access necessary medical services, and it would also be noticed and appreciated by all Virginians. Please sign this petition encouraging him to do so, and to show him just how many people see this as a good, progressive move into a better way of life.

Many children in Virginia have parents that are working but still live below the poverty line. These families deserve access to quality healthcare.

Why are giving money to other states and not supporting our own citizens?