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.

I live among many homeless in downtown Seattle-poets, artists, vets, and those less known. Many are friends. ER is a rescue for them but at a terrible cost to their continued health and to the economy. They are not "the poor" or any other "category". There are us!

Republicans are falling over themselves to get to a microphone or TV camera to fuss in false overconcern for the 4-5 million citizens whose substandard insurance policies are being cancelled. Cancellation of policies has always been central to the market nature of the insurance business. These citizens can obtain another policy As an emergency physician I am face to face everyday with many of the 50 million of Americans until now locked out of insurance and good healthcare. While nowhere as good as single payer, the PPACA does protect many patients. We must thus protect the PPACA.

This is for my Nephew who attemted Suicide and no one would attempt to help a child in need of help, so many others suffer with a mental disabilty and no help or enough beds to support them and the help they require.

My family's personal negative impact of companies fear of the Obama Care and its' impact on health insurance premiums. Many may benefit, but we may lose everything!

It is the American thing to do. We shouldn't let selfishness and politics get in the way.