Our son Robby as a penniless law student was forced to wait until gravely ill to seek ER care. As a consequence, the infections were way out of control and forced him to resign from law school. There are more than 242,000 others in the same boat due to Jindal's gap created by his stubborn refusal to expand Medicaid.

I am a medical marijuana patient on disability. I can rarely afford medicine because of the high costs. The medical marijuana law currently allows dispensaries to choose who gets free or reduced cost medicine. I would like to amend that guideline to make it state free medicine for financial hardship cases. These are patients at poverty level whom would go without medicine, such as people on disability and low income senior citizens. The dispensaries are non-profit and are supposed to be set up to help patients. The MA. DPH would decide which patients are financial hardship cases, and only those individuals would be eligible for free medicine.

Thousands of Multiple Sclerosis patients are getting worse each day, when currently used medications are not working for them or their body refuses to accept the medication. Another Option is needed and this Option Should be Lemtrada The FDA on December 30, 2013 Denies the use of Lemtrada for MS Patients. THIS was A sad day for people with more active Multiple Sclerosis. Lemtrada has been approved worldwide, but not good enough for us it seems, in the USA. We are more than 400,000 strong (living with MS) in the USA WE NEED YOUR VOTE to give another OPTION to those that Can benefit from this medication; hoping to keep them from severe disability. YES, WE NEED YOUR VOTE. Also we need you to write directly. WE NEED YOU TO send emails. – We need this request to go Viral -- • Let us FLOOD the OFFICE of this FDA committee with emails, WITH the information shown above. • Please copy and paste what is tyoed and attach your name to that email and then send to: [email protected] where the communications are reviewed and forwarded to appropriate individuals for response. In contacting the office of Ms. Glendolynn Johnson, who staffs the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee, I was advised that the Moveon.org petition, and all communication voicing consumer or prospective patient views, should go to [email protected] where the communications are reviewed and forwarded to appropriate individuals for response.

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are painful, often debilitating diseases that can seriously impact patients' quality of life, and IBD affects 1.4 million Americans. IBD can also be very difficult to treat. There are few medication options, and those medications can cause side effects from headaches and hair loss to dangerously low white and red blood cell counts, liver toxicity, lymphoma, and even death. Even on these potent drugs, many patients can't achieve remission. Fecal microbial transplant (FMT) is a treatment option with very few side effects, and numerous studies have demonstrated its effectiveness in treating IBD. Unfortunately, the FDA recently classified fecal matter as a drug and a biologic agent. Now IBD patients can only get FMT through clinical trials, which most patients don't have access to. IBD patients need access to FMT, a safe and effective treatment that could drastically improve many lives. Please urge the FDA to allow IBD patients access to FMT.

Whole Foods' CEO, John Mackey, has been using his position as head of one of the most respected companies in America to promote anti-Obamacare lies and deter people from signing up for life-saving health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Fight back against this kind of confusing misinformation and tell John Mackey stop misleading Americans. Statements like these confuse people about the law and scare them away from signing up for the coverage they desperately need.

The richest country on earth should provide health care for all people,we can always find money for wars but the health of this nation should be a top priority but it is not,this is not a republican or democrat thing,this is an American thing,every American deserves health care.

While working in retail, I have seen fellow employees being given shifts ending at 11pm at night just to come back at 5:30am tired and not 100% functional. Not only is this immoral but bad for business. There should be a mandatory 8 hours in between shifts so people come to work alert and awake.

Mississippians Need Healthcare Fairness from Their Elected Representatives !!

The pharmaceutical industry is the only beneficiary of Medicaid's inability to negotiate for prescription drugs. This part of the law feeds corporate greed, and does not serve Medicaid recipients.

There have been longstanding inequities in how hospitals have been funded through past Medicaid waivers and other decisions. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the closure of 19 hospitals in New York City, with many of those closings occurring in low-income, immigrant, and communities of color. Financial distress has been one of the major causes of these closures. Right now, central Brooklyn is experiencing a health care crisis that includes hospitals teetering on the brink of closure. These closures would exacerbate already existing disparities in access and quality care. Any strong definition should then be based on the following criteria: 50% Medicaid and Uninsured patients in all services with a minimum of 70% Medicaid and Uninsured for outpatient services.

It's about a child's health, second hand smoking horrible as it is but it could really hurt a child. Smoking takes my breath away and I have trouble breathing, what do you think a child is feeling. A baby and some children can't speak for themselves so who will, WE CAN!!!!

As a mom of a child with many medical issues, I have had much experience with how hospitals do not want to provide costly care to the severely impaired population. Jahi Mc Math was a healthy 13 yr old girl who was medically neglected during her post operative aftercare in the PICU at Children's Hospital Oakland. As a result she suffered an anoxic brain injury. CHO owes her and her family every possible rehabilitation technique, every possible treatment, medication, regardless of the cost to bring this girl back. At the very least she deserves time and nutrition to see if there is a chance that she could recover. CHO is currently denying Jahi nutrition by refusing to allow a simple feeding tube surgery. This surgery takes only minutes to perform. GiveJahi Mc Math another chance at life. CHO took her life away once, don't let them take it away again!