The Michigan Legislature is about to pass a major piece of legislation that restricts women’s health care coverage in the state. The initiative would ban all health insurance policies in the state—public and private—from covering abortions, including in cases of rape and grave danger to the mother. Michigan Right to Life used an arcane tactic, known as an “indirect initiated state statute,” to do an end-run around a previous veto of this bill to make it law with a very low bar––they only needed 3.4% of Michigan voters to sign a petition supporting the initiative. The Michigan legislature can either approve the legislation, or let the voters decide next year. Tell Michigan legislators that 3.4% of voters should not make over-reaching decisions about women’s health care choices, and instead to put this on the ballot in November 2014.

Michigan politicians have invoked a rarely-used legislative maneuver to try to ban private insurance coverage for abortion. The goal is to make coverage for abortion only available through an impractical “rider” system, and eventually decrease women’s access to this particular form of care. The proposed measure has no exception for survivors of rape, incest or health of the woman and is out-of-step with Michigan voters. Michigan women would be harmed if this passes. Jenni Lane of Ann Arbor is thankful for insurance coverage that allowed her to make the "incredibly difficult" decision to end a pregnancy that would not survive. Having the health coverage she needed allowed her to choose the safest procedure. Nearly two out of three Michigan voters do not want to see this harmful measure become law. In fact, this proposal is so extreme that it was vetoed by two separate Republican governors. The Detroit Free Press “believe[s] that this measure isn’t fair, that it is cruel and intrusive. […] To allow hundreds of thousands to subvert the law of the land by larding a legal medical process with special requirements is contrary to the spirit of democracy. If you think voters, not politicians, should decide if insurance coverage should exclude abortion, let your voice be heard!

Marijuana has been legalized in 20 States. It's proven to be a good, if not "great" medication to those in need. Several studies have been shown that Marijuana can treat everything from eye diseases, to restless leg syndrome, all the way to something as simple as insomnia. So, some people of Virginia are actually commiting crimes by having to illegally buy MEDICATION, to function and live a happy, ordinary life. When, in reality, the people of Virginia, should look into this drug and see how this could potentially un-crowd our jails and prisons as well as help some live a happy life in this great State. We should also look at the employment benefits, as well as how this could pontentially help our Government and debt by taxing the drug.

In a last ditch attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act -- a.k.a. Obamacare -- California Republicans have launched a fake website (CoveringHealthcareCA.com) designed to capture those interested in the state's real Obamacare site: CoveredCA.com. California Republicans have promoted the fake site with tens of thousands of taxpayer-funded mailers to constituents. It sows fear and confusion by promoting misleading or outright false information and avoiding basic facts and benefits of the law. It's a politically motivated, unconscionable attempt to prevent sick people from getting the care they need. Disagreeing on a matter of public policy is one thing, but actively working to mislead voters and prevent them from accessing healthcare is unacceptable.

We need to stop ignoring the Heroin/Drug epidemic in this State/Country. We need more Drug Rehab Centers for people that can't afford to pay for one and without lengthy waiting lists. We also need to change the law so that we can have our addicts committed to rehab when their unable to make those decisions themselves. The Pharmaceutical Companies need to contribute to this cause with all the Billions they've made off of sick/weak people. Addiction is a disease and we need to treat it as such. We can't wait! We're losing our loved ones on a daily basis due to this disease. We need to wake up to this epidemic!! We need CHANGE!! Please don't ignore this.

Without the approval of this grant the school based health clinic on the Franklin campus will close, leaving many students without access to medical care and mental health counseling services.

I am disabled and my spouse is prohibited by state law to be my Personal Care Assistant (PCA).

We want to help Texas women and this includes your grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, nieces, co-workers, neighbors, friends, students, and most especially low-income women. The Texas Family Planning Program lost $73 million dollars during the 2011 legislative session. Thousands of Texas women have lost access to family planning services and low-cost healthcare. In 2012, the Women's Health Program lost it's federal funding due to Rick Perry's Affiliate Ban Rule. These setbacks have resulted in a 77 percent drop in the number of women being served by state health clinics and increased costs to taxpayers. Please consider signing our petition to restore equal funding to all family planning clinics, increase funding for the Women's Health Program and the Family Planning Program, and to integrate comprehensive sex education into school and clinic settings across Texas. Texas low-income women have lost access to family planning/birth control, well-woman exams, women's health education, breast/cervical cancer screenings, sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment, and access to pregnancy termination. We need your help. Please sign our petition.

I have friends and family who have never had health insurance and under the Affordable Care Act they will finally be covered for health issues. It is only right that the most influential and richest country on the planet be active in providing the opportunity for their citizens to have health insurance coverage.

I work in the health care field and observe daily the negative impact of not expanding Medicaid is doing to our communities form an economic standpoint and a health standpoint.

My husband passed away earlier this year thus leaving my two college students and me without health insurance. Cobra offered me continued coverage, at an approximately cost of $2,000 per month. I am a 57 year old self employed woman with college tuitions, a mortgage and extremely limited income. Almost anyone could find him/herself without affordable care insurance at anytime in their life.

After not being admitted to a Mental Health facility due to the lack of an available bed, Gus Deeds went on to try and kill his father State Senator Creigh Deeds before taking his own life. Senator Deeds has said “I hope the justice we can get for my son is to force change in the delivery system for mental-health services.” Please stand with me, Senator Deeds and all of those that have been affected by mental illness in urging the Virginia State Legislature to act now. None of us are immune from the threat of mental illness.