Mental illness. Many people suffer mental illness sometime during their lives. It strikes us when we are our most vulnerable after tradegy strikes. Soon life gets better and there is light at the end of the tunnel of darkness. For people with mental disease, it never goes away. As children we are afflicted. It lingers. Waits. Challenges productivity. Interferes with social interaction. Makes us vicitms of spousal Abuse. Robs us of everyday life. Whether a mentally challenged victim of war with PSTD or stressed from chronic compulsive disorders, born with autism, or suffer from severe chronic depression or bipolar disorder. So many of us struggle to be functional in everyday life and that stress makes everyday challenges ten-fold harder to accept, work out, live thru. It becomes so exhausting and unendurable many choose self-inflicted suicide or as seen in many recent incidents, seek violence as their last stand. Please join me in my meager attempt to explain, describe the need and request your actions to improve MENTAL AWARENESS &MEDICATIONS MONITORING to end the cycle of self abuse, loss of so many brave soldiers, loss of youths that could've been our next Einsteins, struggling people whose only handicap was to be born chemically unbalanced in the brain. Please help me by signing this petition to inform candidates, Congressmen, Senators, School Officials, Police Officers and the President the urgent need to push for legislation to better empower people with these disabilities. Life is possible with medications, proactive searching for the correct diet, dosage of chemicals to help with these disorders and to educate Teachers, Police what to look for, how to proactively find these children early before they become the next victim in an obituary or monster in Theatre or God forbid a desperate insane driven young man in a school building. Please help me. I hear of people who cannot afford their medicines so they purposely perpetrate crimes to be convicted, housed, jailed and receive their medications. In jails, their families can better received aide and afford food. Many go throughout life abusing their wives or children without medications. Everyday some youth kills herself due to mental illness because they just can't stand to face another day. Some are more violent and try to take others with them. I have met so many mentally challenged people and they all require medications and good nutrients to better cope with their disabilities. Please an Executive Order to make easier access for affordable care and easier access to affordable medications.

Licensed Professional Counselors and are being discriminated against. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists are also being discriminated against. Both professionals are reimbursed by most of if not every other insurance company EXCEPT MEDICARE & THE VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION. Both of these licensed and credentialed are the academic equals of Licensed Clinical Social Workers, who get reimbursement from these entities. Mental Health Services are greatly needed among Medicare recipients, as well as the countless veterans and their families, suffering from the emotional fallout of serving their country. Some day either you or a loved one may find themselves on Medicare and in need Mental Health or substance abuse services and being denied access to half the qualified professionals. Why? Because of politics as usual. Please call or write your congress person and house representIves. Insist they pass these bills. Thank you. ,

Firebird and El Fenix employs 1200 employees and only plan to cover their employees with preventive care, drugs and no hospitalization or surgery procedures. They are onlying planning to give bare minimum coverages to be in compliance with the Obama Care.

My father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. I want to care for him at home, but can't afford to because caregiving is a 24/7 job in itself. Tell Congress that caregivers need a stipend to keep their parents out of nursing homes.

I'm a working class citizen like many others in NY state dealing with this dilemma that we are not poor enough for state healthcare programs and we are not rich enough for the health care that our employers offer. We as working class citizens aka the backbone of this country need healthcare!

Stop the legislated discrimination and death sentence for profit of those over 80 years of age in Florida. In a civilized society, this cannot stand.

Military retirees should be very concerned about the recent increase in Tricare Prime annual fees. We are hearing that there is a planned 700% increase in the annual fee cost coming in the next few years, pricing retirees and their families out of the system, for the sole effort of forcing retired members onto OBAMACARE.

Treatment of Veterans with Agent Orange related illness

The Health care crisis in the USA. Hospitals charge master prices. Stop this criminal practice.

In favor. I can't get any type of medical assistance. I can't afford insurance and have been rejected for medicaid because I'm neither pregnant or disabled. I have medical issues that I need taken care of and can't afford to do so since I have been unemployed for almost two years.

My family and myself do not have health insurance, as million of Americans today.

Sacramento cut $1 billion from our state's healthcare system and the much-needed Medi-Cal program. Without this funding, millions of Californians will lose access to quality healthcare, and tens of thousands of healthcare workers (like me) could lose their jobs. These cuts will go into effect -- unless we act now!