While it is commendable that the NFL promotes Breast Cancer Awareness by allowing players to wear pink, it is equally important to draw attention to Prostate Cancer Awareness. Just as many men die from Prostate Cancer as women die from breast cancer. Light blue is the color for Prostate Cancer and October is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. We call on the NFL to support Men's Health by starting a campaign to have teams wear light blue for the month of October.

We the uninsured people of the United States have been waiting forever to have our health cared for without going bankrupt for uninsured care or living with the fear of that happening. I am a baby boomer and In my lifetime the middle class have been left uninsured. Our children and grandchildren especially have been left without any healthcare because jobs do not provide it like they used to in my generation. We have been waiting since 2010 to finally enroll in the new healthcare plan and now extremists form the Republican Party have hijacked our healthcare and shut down our Government in order to stop us from ever getting our health cared for in an affordable way. The only thing that will end this stalemate is for the American People to make it known that "We Want Our Healthcare and we will remember who doesn't care about us or our health. Republican's who can't control the extremists in their party.

I have been in chronic pain for over 30 years. I, and many, many others are finding our pain medication choices and prescription decisions being driven by the DEA's changing rules. The "war on drugs" is now being taken out on those who live in chronic pain. The decision of what drugs, how many, for how long, what strength, etc should be between patient and doctor, not patient, doctor, and the DEA.

Prescription drug prices in America are the highest in the world. Congress could cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare spending without touching the benefits that seniors receive. Let's reform Medicare Part D and save Medicare for our seniors.

Funding research for only breast cancer isn't going to help thousands of other people who have other kinds of Cancer. Even though breast cancer is the most common cancer in woman, that doesn't mean we can't support other cancers as well, and help thousands more people. Help fund research for, not one single disease, but all of the types of Cancer we know of.

I am an alternative healthcare practitioner. Individuals seek my care after modern medicine has either failed or damaged them. I would like the opportunity to serve them on an equal basis with allopathic medicine at the outset, rather than as a last resort.

I would like to make nurses,either RNS or LNs accross the united states. Lpns are subject to discrimination as well as ridicule because of their titles. Lpns should have 2 credentials and it should simply be LN.

Research shows that breast tomosynthesis, also known as 3D mammography, can detect breast cancer by as much as 40% which may increase the chance of catching the cancer at an early stage; a cost-savings and potential life-saving benefit. Research also shows that there is as much as 40% chance of decreasing false-positives, which can decrease unnecessary callbacks to women for further testing that can increase radiation exposure and increase costs.

The VA continues to deny veterans health and compensation benefits that were exposed to Agent Orange outside of Vietnam. Many of these veterans can no longer work due to their diseases or the secondary effects of their diseases.

House Speaker John Boehner is threatening to shut down the federal government to block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. If Boehner gets his way, millions of working Americans would be denied access to health insurance. Boehner's disciples call this "freedom," because they object "on principle" to helping to pay for the health insurance costs of less fortunate Americans. Meanwhile, however, we all have to pay for John Boehner's smoking habit, because he has taxpayer-financed health insurance. A recent study found that the excess healthcare cost of smokers, who have higher rates of lung disease, heart disease, various cancers and other illnesses, was more than two thousand dollars per smoker per year. Tell John Boehner to end his hypocrisy: quit smoking cigarettes or quit trying to defund Obamacare. Reference: "Smoking employees cost $6,000 a year more, study finds," Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News, June 3, 2013, http://www.nbcnews.com/health/smoking-employees-cost-6-000-year-more-study-finds-6C10182631

I am starting this petition in response to my personal outrage over what it costs a middle class individual on the healthcare exchanges to purchase healthcare coverage. Currently for me and my husband this is quoted at 1,250.00 a month and because we both work we do not qualify for a subsidy. Until now we were paying $850.00 a month for a high deductible plan. We are both healthy and rarely go to the doctor. Why should an individual be outraged: because those that are getting closer to retirement age, those not yet eligible for Medicare are paying for the expanded services of those with lesser incomes. Also, it is hard for a small business to grow and pay the rates insurance companies charge and I believe there is quite a bit of price gouging going on right now. You should be outraged also because the money an individual has to save for retirement is now either not available, or significantly decreased due to this increased expenditure. Some individuals will be forced to pay the penalty of not having a policy rather than risk bankruptcy.Healthcare reform in it's current state does not control the rising costs of healthcare which is currently around 10,000 a day in a hospital. I have worked in healthcare for thirty years. What healthcare reform does is expand services which in itself is good but not when it causes so much hardship on a select sector of the population that is being priced out of being able to afford healthcare. Before healthcare reform many couldnt even enroll in healthcare plans but now the lower incomes groups are able to but only because healthier groups and the middle class is footing the bill.Healthcare reform is great if your poor or make below 45k a year. There is some incentive to work less so a person won't have to pay as much for healthcare. These are my thoughts and while it is difficult to come up with a fairer system I think congress should think about the dissapearance of the middle class and who foots the bills of this country. If you loose the middle class you loose the population of the country that pays the goverment bills. Thank you

In my profession, I have worked with many families who were hard-working but couldn't afford health insurance while at the same time, not being eligible to receive Medicaid assistance. I have seen the negative effects of this on the children of our state. The ACA Medicaid expansion funds would alleviate this problem greatly.