The Gates Foundation has spent $2.5 billion on AIDS grants and $1.4 billion for a global health fund. They fund AIDS vaccine research to develop a preventive vaccine for AIDS, and AIDS treatment research, to develop medications that treat--but don't cure--AIDS. But they don't fund the search for a cure. Yet only half of people with AIDS worldwide can access treatment--the rest are dying; 1.7 million die every single year. People with AIDS, many in extreme poverty, must somehow obtain an expensive pill every day for the rest of their lives to stay alive. We are on the brink of a new era--but whether a cure for everyone happens in 5 years or 20 depends on whether scientists must wait, as they do now, for years to start their cure research projects due to lack of funding. Bill and Melinda Gates could make a pivotal contribution by providing adequate funding for researchers to grasp the scientific opportunities in front of them and accelerate a cure for all. (Don't forget to include both your first and last names :)

NJ S2596 that each region -- north, central, west and south -- maintain one operational developmental center and that “certain factors” be considered before residents are transferred between centers. This Bill disregards the U.S. Supreme Court's Olmstead decision, and is not in line with the interests of the population that the Department of Human Services serves. The suggestion that New Jersey needs to maintain one developmental center in each region is abhorrent. Keeping developmental centers open - regardless of which state they are located - undermines disability services’ progress and the basic human rights of all people, regardless of their abilities.

I have a younger sister that effected by MS and I want to see more funding to develop stronger and more potent medications,so that eventually this condition can be eradicated.

The people of South Carolina deserve the benefits of the Medicaid Expansion provision of the Affordable Care Act. Gov. Haley plans to reject $11 billion in federal money which will pay for medical care for 500,000 of our neediest citizens. In addition to those medical benefits, $11 billion will create nearly 44,000 jobs in SC by 2020, boosting the state's health care industry and stimulating the overall SC economy. It will reduce ER visits and lower costs. If SC does NOT take advantage of the federal money, the SC share will be used elsewhere.

Many North Carolina citizens need the health coverage expanded MEDICAID of the ACA will give us. I worked at Stough Elementary School with Governor McCrory's sister for 10 years, because of health issues of self & sons, & Broughton HS forcing my son to Drop Out when he was hospitalized, I had to quit work, I'm a widow & the only parent. My son's 4 year struggle is documented-Legal Aid & Duke Law filed the longest petition in NC history on behalf of my son. We suffer greatly without health insurance, we suffer innocently. Many more suffer with us. We need & deserve health insurance. There's no fair reason not to expand MEDICAID coverage for citizens. The money is already available. Please ask Governor McCrory to do right by us & our children.

I want the governor to stop playing tea party politics and accept the expansion of Medicaid as it is proposed in the Affordable Care Act.

Secondhand smoke is already proven to cause numerous health problems leading to a costly and agonizing death. Residents are exposed to life threatening secondhand smoke that literally travels through the walls of apartments, condos, and town homes without any recourse to protect their health in such a situation. These residents include children, veterans, the elderly, health conscious people, and pets and they deserve protection, particularly in these times of run away health care costs.

With scientific medical progress, Medicare and other insurance plans could cover the cost of new medical advances that would cure the problem. My knees were replaced three years ago and work better now than the ever did when I was younger. After completing physical therapy, no further treatment was necessary.

I think given current legislation mandating health insurance, that if a person has coverage through COBRA, where we pay the entire premiuim, we should be allowed to keep this plan until we get a new job that offers insurance.

Under the Affordable Care Act, states will receive 100% funding the first year, to expand medicaid coverage up to 138% of the federal poverty level. However, the Supreme Court ruling made the expansion optional in each state. Gov. Kasich has included the expansion in his budget, with limitations. We demand that the Republican majorities in the General Assembly support the expansion. Thousands of Ohioans need health care now.

I believe if we can put all of the resources we have into making counseling a priority and treat it just as important as medical medicine. More families can be helped, which will help more children and then less crimes. The salaries of these professional are seriously poor. Due to that, there is a large turn over, which is damaging to some one receiving treatment. Because of the insurance coverage,often families rather not seek the help and if they need a psychologist that specializes, only the rich can afford them. I am a witness to all of this first hand.

As a primary care doctor working with the poor and uninsured, I get to see how broken our health care system is daily. The fractured, wasteful system has obvious negative effects on patients and caregivers. The answer is a single payer system. But since we don't have the political will to try that - lets add a public option into the health care exchange and pilot what that might look like for the future.