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!

South Carolina voters: Please contact your state senator and representative and plead with them to accept Medicaid Expansion so that people who make less than $11,000 can have health insurance.

The United States is currently in a full blown prescription drug and heroin epidemic and Arizona has the 6th highest number of deaths. Arizona needs to step up its efforts to save lives by allowing the distribution of the drug Naloxone (Narcan) to non-physician adults who could administer the drug to quickly reverse the overdose.

My fiance has a severely compressed nerve in her arm that is killing her hand. She is loosing muscle , hand is always cold and mottled, she is in severe pain every single day. This is a police officer that is being treated like garbage. When a citizen needed help , my finance was always there to help, now my finance needs help to save her arm and in 4 years she has asked for help and our CA workcomp system refuses to approve her surgeries. Please help me save her arm!!!!!!!

Millions have signed up under the ACA but millions more have been frightened away by false and misleading propaganda. They are now uncovered for health expenses until 2015. Many will go bankrupt or worse for lack of insurance coverage.

http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=3675 Keep the FDA from dumbing down the nutrient levels in our supplements to match Codex Alimentarius' low levels! http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=FDA-2012-N-1210-0002

Individuals who are denied health insurance affects all citizens through increased hospitalization and other medical costs. Our state will thrive more when all of our citizens are cared for. Please sign this petition and send a message to Columbia.

We want to start this petition to show the state that we are concerned about the proposed changes to West Virginia IDD Waiver Manual that limits any person from working more than 40 hours a week with a waiver participant. This will affect our families by limiting care givers even more and in turn affect the individual by not having enough consistent staff.

I believe Rep. Murphy's Bill H.R. 3717 - The Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act, ensuring Psychiatric Care for Those in Need of Help the Most, has the fix for all problems found in the Oversight and Investigation report. I have experienced the problems sighted with my consumer peers, working for a Community Mental Health Center and as a field organizer for NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness. Driven by evidenced based care, the items to fix are many: Empower parents and caregivers by revising the HIPAA law, Addresses the shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds by changing the cap of beds per unit from 16 to 32, Gives alternatives to institutionalization, Reforms the Department of Justice, Reforms the accountability of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) by instituting a new oversight position reporting to Congress. Goals include: Reaching underserved and rural populations, Stabilizing beyond the ER, Advances critical medical research, Provides high quality community behavioral health services, Increasing awareness in the behavioral health needs of children and teens, Integrate primary and behavioral care, Increasing physician volunteerism.

To require our governor to accept federal dollars to expand Medicaid to low-income and disabled Georgians.

Steve McNall of Lacey, Washington, was a son, an uncle, and a hard worker. When the recession hit, his hours at his job at a local golf course were cut back. He cut back too. He sold his house and moved into a small apartment near his family. He was living paycheck to paycheck. So when his tooth began to hurt, instead of seeking treatment he took an over the counter painkiller. But the pain continued. When it became unbearable, he finally gave in to his mother’s pressure to see someone. He visited a dental clinic accepting low income clients where staff confirmed he had an abscessed tooth and referred him to the emergency room for treatment of the severe infection. But without money for medical bills, he went home to rest instead. Hours later, after he didn’t answer his phone, his mom came by to check on him. But Steve was gone. The infection in his tooth had traveled throughout his body. Just two weeks after his tooth started hurting, on November 13, 2012, Steve McNall lost his life to an abscessed tooth – and a lack of affordable dental care. “He was a good man,” says his mother Brenda. “He worked. He paid his bills. When you think of all the medical problems in the world, it’s such a waste. Why are Steve and others like him not around? It’s unfair in a way. But dental care is outrageous.” It doesn't have to be this way. When people have access to routine care, emergencies are prevented. Mid-level dental providers—highly trained professionals who work with dentists in high need communities—are successfully working in other states to deliver exactly this kind of care. Even with Washington state’s increased efforts to provide dental insurance through Medicaid, too many people can’t get routine and preventive care. Three out of four dentists in our state reject this form of payment. We are a compassionate, innovative state. No one should suffer, and no one should lose their life because dental health care is out of reach. The time is now to put solutions in place, so that what happened to Steve doesn’t happen again.