Gov. Bentley says Alabama won't set up exchange, won't expand Medicaid. As a physician myself working in Alabama I see firsthand what poverty and lack of insurance can lead to. We need this. This expanded insurance coverage will save lives and eventually save the state money.  The Affordable Care Act requires that almost all individuals have health insurance by 2014 or face a fine – this was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012.  However, the Supreme Court ruling allows states to choose whether or not to expand their Medicaid programs to cover individuals at 138% of the FPL by 2014.  States or the federal government will develop and implement health insurance exchanges in the states so that consumers can more easily compare health plans.  Medicaid Cost-Sharing models will change under the new eligibility programs.  If all 50 states implemented the Medicaid expansion, it would cover an additional 21.6 million of the 41.2 million currently uninsured adults (or 52%).  The additional cost of implementing the Medicaid expansion is estimated to be only a 2.8 percent increase from what states would have spent between 2014 and 2022 without the health reform law. However, this number is significantly overstated, as CBO’s calculations do not factor in the savings that state and local governments will realize in their health care spending for the uninsured

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".