Health care in Washington as it exists now, without HB 1085, causes personal bankruptcies, stops people from seeking preventive health care, cripples small businesses with insurance costs, bogs down doctors' offices with paperwork, while it is generating huge profit for private insurance companies.

The Governor’s budget has significantly reduced funding to the Department of Public Health. These cuts have caused Mon Valley location to stop providing services and schdeule to close in the near future. This local site hosts many critical public health services including Child/Maternal Health, Injury Prevention programs and various free health clinics. The local citizens must use our voice to speak out against the loss of these services!

Currently, California does not allow medical labs to send lab and medical test results to the patient. I want to keep my own medical files so that I can track medical data and help different doctors see test results rather than ordering tests that have already been recently performed. For example, Quest Labs has a great program that stores your lab results on line, available to you or your designate using a password. But the State of California is one of a few states that does not allow this and requires that such information go through your doctor only!!

benefits for dentures and teeth care and eye glasses because this is something every one is entitled to to give them the confidences they need to be able to eat right and drive there cars and not be depend on other and putting a hard ship on there family's

For several years SUNY Downstate's University Hospital administration has been making poor decisions, including purchasing a private hospital called Long Island College Hospital which had been running a deficit for 17 years. The results of chronic under-funding, mis-management, and that ill-advised purchase have been followed by the real threat of financial bankruptcy for the hospital, which would mean loss of support for their public medical school and a total loss of services to the surrounding Brooklyn community. New York State's Legislature and Governor should provide the funding and administrative expertise to rescue SUNY Downstate University Hospital from this disastrous situation and support and upgrade it as a needed public component for its associated public medical school and for the surrounding community.

Drug costs incurred by Medicare are unnecessarily costly because Medicare is currently prohibited from negotiating these costs with pharmaceutical companies, This does not allow the free market to take place and these higher costs are paid for by the American taxpayer.

Radio frequency causes brain and throat cancer,say no to allowing use of ipads in schools with hotspots.

Texas has the largest number of uninsured children in the nation. It also has the largest number of people living in poverty. These constituents need health care. Without access to services they suffer, as does all of Texas.

Repeal this law because: It stops people at high risk from testing. It perpetuates and increases stigma. No empirical data are available regarding the effectiveness of HIV serostatus exposure laws.  - NIH It puts the person with HIV in danger of violence. It was written in 1989 when HIV/AIDS was untreatable. It is used as a weapon against people that are positive. Treatment decreases the possibility of spreading the infection by 97%. It makes everyone with HIV a victim. A person with HIV can be punished when no risk occurred. Reform this law because: HIV is now treatable and is considered a chronic illness. Treatment is available. Treatment decreases the possibility of spreading the infection by 97%. Tuberculosis has punitive actions that only make treatment the mandatory sentence. Since 2008, only 10 people have been convicted of exposure to HIV. Over 4,000 people are not in treatment and reforming this law can play a major role in encouraging people into care.

I found out recently that I can not afford birth control since Govenor Brownback increased the cost of this medication for state employes and their families. Also Brownback has made it so state insurance will not cover any of the cost for a woman to get a Hysterectomies in the state of Kansas. Brownback should not be aloud to push his Catholic views on state employees. Make it known you still believe in religous freedom and sign our petition today. Thanks

South Carolina should not punish its poorest citizens by not participating in the Medicaid Expansion as part of the Affordable Care Act commonly referred to as "Obamacare".

The cost of dental care is out of control and is not regulated. Most dental procedures are considered cosmetic when in fact they are not. Treatment costs can be bargained which is unheard of in other medical fields. Person A will be charged $10,000 for a root canal OUT of pocket after insurance. Person B with the same insurance will only pay $600 for the exact same procedure at a different dentist.. There is no regulation on the cost a patient can or should pay. My wife recently underwent oral cancer treatment and the cost was over $25,000 out of pocket. They botched the treatment but there are no laws that protect patients who have a erroneous procedure done by a dentist. There are no regulations that will protect them and no Lawyer will touch a medical malpractice case involving dental mistakes. The same procedure was done by a different dentist and it only cost $3,500 out of pocket. the costs for these procedures need to be looked at. This is Price gouging!