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!

They complain about money spent, yet they drag things out for so long and put peoples bodies through the stuff of horror stories. And in the end they have to preform more stuff then if they had done the right thing in the first place. I would have signed off a long time ago, if they had just been doing the right thing and treating me like a human being. And if you give meds that a person has a bad reaction to, get them off of it instead of adding more drugs.

My nephew went into cardiac arrest on thanksgiving day he suffer some brian damage and his doctor basically told my sister in law and brother in law to pull the plug on their baby stating they were being selfish having their baby soul less the baby still have some brian activity and is not clinically dead they were then being denied stay at the st. marry rehabilitation. The insurance will refuse to pay because the doctors are telling the insurance company the baby is not moving and opening his eyes its false yes he is please help us fight to get Iziah into the rehabilitation

The Southside of Chicago has no or inadequate Trauma units within community hospitals. The South side needs a complete medical district..

In many states the unemployed fall into the so called "gap" of not making enough income to qualify for a subsidy under the Affordable Care Act, yet not qualifying for Medicaid. There should not be a bottom income threshold when Medicaid expansion was left up to individual states. We are one country and we should all have the same opportunities to afford medical care no matter what state we live in.

I am a local activist who is concerned about community access to mental health services. I was shocked when I discovered the University of Arizona Medical Center (UAMC), the largest provider of behavioral and mental health in-patient care in Southern Arizona, doesn't have a single black physician working at its treatment facility. This shameful situation sends a clear message about which segment of the community the UAMC, a nationally recognized teaching institution, serves and which one it doesn't. Tell the National Institute of Health to stop giving millions of dollars in federal grants to the UAMC because its hiring record is inconsistent with a true commitment to serving all Southern Arizonans.

Illinois mental health patients and professionals face serious trouble due to cuts in funding for mental health care. Since 2009, Mental Health lines are down about $20 million total. From 2009-2011 the number for Mental Health was cut $108 million, however Illinois has restored funding to Mental Health  but still down 20 million from FY 09. Illinois ranked third among states with the highest cuts, totaling $113.7 million.  Petition By: State Representative La Shawn K Ford- Member of the Illinois House of Representatives Appropriations-Human Services Committee. http://www.dhs.state.il.us/onenetlibrary/27897/documents/mental%20health/marysmith/strategicplan/mentalhealthservicesfiveyearstrategicplan2013.pdf