My Son Joshua and 3 others live in the home that they want to move out and move in another population due the state feeling their population does not bring in enough financial gains. This is and has been their home for many years and due to "money" problems of the state be forced out of their home. They want to change this with in this year and needs to be stopped.

These amendments would wrongfully put e-cigarettes in the same category as tobacco products despite their clear lack of tobacco. This would also force e-cigarette users to be limited to public spaces designated as acceptable smoking areas.

Since 2009 Maine has lost an average of 170 people per year to drug overdoses. This is roughly one person every other day. This bill would help to save hundreds of lives over the next decade. Given your privileged position on the front lines of the drug abuse epidemic you are all too aware of the toll that drug use takes in human lives. Often, you are the first on the scene to a drug overdose. You've probably seen this problem grow worse and worse over the years. And now, with the influx of heroin, overdose deaths have become a public health emergency. Naloxone is what is called an opioid antagonist. It has no other use than to counteract the effects of an overdose. It produces no high, has no street value and no effect on an individual unless they have opioids in their system. What's more, studies have found that its distribution has no impact on rates of substance abuse - it does NOT increase how many people are abusing drugs. LD 1686 would expand access to Naloxone. It would enable this life-saving drug to be in the right place at the right time. It would enable law-enforcement, EMTs and others likely to be the first on the scene to carry and administer Naloxone to save someone's life. It would allow family and friends of persons with addiction issues to possess and administer Naloxone to save their son, daughter, husband or wife. As law enforcement officials you are dedicated to saving lives and protecting the public. That is just what this bill does.

We can't force private insurers to put people over profit, but we can make them compete with a public option that does. A public option would provide better care for less money, because policyholders wouldn't have to subsidize shareholder profits, big CEO bonuses, or expensive marketing campaigns.

We can't force private insurers to put people over profit, but we can make them compete with a public option that does. A public option would provide better care for less money, because policyholders wouldn't have to subsidize shareholder profits, big CEO bonuses, or expensive marketing campaigns.

We can't force private insurers to put people over profit, but we can make them compete with a public option that does. A public option would provide better care for less money, because policyholders wouldn't have to subsidize shareholder profits, big CEO bonuses, or expensive marketing campaigns.

Private insurers will always put profit and executive compensation above the well being of their their customers. With Wall Street downgrading any insurance company that does otherwise, we'll never be able to overcome that attitude, but we can make insurance companies compete with a public option that takes a very different, much more customer-centered approach. Such a true public option would provide better care for less money, because policyholders wouldn't have to subsidize shareholder profits, big CEO bonuses, or expensive marketing campaigns. Let's create that public option, the sooner the better!

We can't force private insurers to put people over profit, but we can make them compete with a public option that does. A public option would provide better care for less money, because policyholders wouldn't have to subsidize shareholder profits, big CEO bonuses, or expensive marketing campaigns.

I, Robert Darrow, am living with AIDS and my friends are being singled out for discrimination in the name of corporate profit by our state's largest insurance company. Please help shine light on this discrimination. This injustice must stop!

Governor Deal has said the state cannot afford to expand Medicaid, even though the federal government would pay 100 percent of the cost for three years and then gradually scale back its support to a permanent level of 90 percent.

I have diabetes, and have lost consciousness, and thought to be drunk because my blood sugars have gone very high or low. I am not able to obtain a Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGMS) because medicare considers it "experimental" even though it has been proven to help diabetics. H.R.3710 [Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1] (Introduced 12/11/2013)]- Medicare CGM Coverage Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to cover continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS) (including a transmitter, receiver, sensors, and test strips required for use) as durable medical equipment (DME). A Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGMS) is vitally important to many diabetics. This device continuously monitors blood sugars, and alerts when blood sugars start to go dangerously low or high. A CGMS uses a disposable sensor that is placed under the skin every three to seven days and sends a signal to a remote receiver. The receiver provides an estimated blood glucose (sugar) level every five minutes. This allows you to track whether blood glucose is moving up or down (and how fast). The receiver can sound an alarm if the level is too high or too low, or if it is rising or falling too rapidly, so you can take action to correct it. It allows you to detect patterns of highs and lows, so that treatments and habits can be modified to safely improve control. Keeping blood sugars as normal as possible reduces the chances of complications in diabetics, and can reduce the number of Emergency Room visits, and reduce the time required by Medics and Police Officers to tend to "Drunken" calls and passed out diabetics. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a study October 2, 2008, [http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0805017] proving CGMS can be associated with improved blood sugar control in adults with type 1 diabetes. Even with this, and other studies, medicare still considers the CGMS "experimental". There are some medicare advantage plans that cover CGMS, but these plans are regional, and not available to all patients that need a CGMS. CGMS is now a covered benefit for 70 to 80 percent of Americans who have commercial insurance. This petition will save lives, and offer a better life for diabetics.

Dear Rep. Allyson, As your constituent, I write to ask you to urge contact ICE to release Israel Hernandez (A# 079-737-080) from York County Correctional Facility. He is the father of two U.S. citizen girls and they need him home. Israel has been living in the United States for over a decade. He is a small business owner in Norristown, Pennsylvania, known for caring about his community. He donates money, time and contibute to churches, and the local police and fire departments. Israel was picked up by ICE on January 27, 2014 as he was closing his business and was taken to the local county jail. Israel had to return to Mexico in October of 2013 because he father died and he wanted to be present at his funeral. He tried to return immediately after the funeral but was detained at the border, and he was deported in November of last year. His crime was to be with his father in his last moment of life. His nine-year-old daughter, Caitlin, has not eaten since her father’s arrest, almost two days. She is terrified that he may be deported and separated from her. I urge you to contact ICE to immediately release Israel Hernandez (A# 079-737-080) so he can return to his family and his community in Norristown.