I pay ALL of my bills on time, but I can't pay a bill to someone that I don't know I owe, for a service I may not know was performed, for a reason I am unaware of. Hospitals use third party services all of the time and should be required to inform the patient of such services so that we may pay our bills on time and avoid late fees or even collections! I have experienced this after a hospital stay and am having trouble seeing who all I owe. My insurance doesn't give me the information, but says I have bills that they have paid partially on, and I have still not received any bills. I called the hopsital and they told me they have no information to give me to help me out. I have never been late on any type of payment and I am scared I will have a late bill or possibly even collections. Hospitals should be required to state any third party service they use in your itemized bill or, at the very least, upon patient request.

The Florida Legislature is meeting today to vote on privatization of Medicaid. This will have a serious detrimental effect on those who rely on these programs for health care. In addition, this may be the "pilot program" to privatization of other programs such as Medicare and Social Security.

NO

Call the Governor and help hgin change his mind about hea;th care for the homelesss, poor and needed wisconsin residents.

Expanding Medicaid to 150,000 Iowans will improve health and save Iowa’s general fund $131 million over the next seven years. That’s a deal, but Governor Terry Branstad doesn’t want to participate. He wants to continue IowaCare, which has very limited coverage.

Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security are not the place to save money. Millions of people rely on these programs and they will have

It's about our Health and our Health Care in Colorado! And, we want to VOTE FOR the Colorado Health Care Cooperative in November 2013! We need affordable, quality health care for all Coloradans NOW! Let us vote! Let us decide! We need it now! We cannot wait!

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programs should not be cut. It is essential for the economy as whole, now deep in a demand crisis caused by unemployment that these payments continue full bore. They are economic stimuli, not to mention that ordinary citizens have been paying for these programs for many decades.

This petition is in regards to the upcoming sequester that is due to hit funding for various departments in government March 1st. This petition is to urge Rep Frankel in Florida to vote against the slashing of Medicare, Medi-cade, Social Security, Food Safety inspectors, and any other service that will affect the medical class come sequestration.

My son is a very intelligent Teenager who has been bullied in School to the point that he became ill. Without the Mental Health Programs designed to counsel, and help children like my son, he would not make it through. Our TEXAS Children should be our Top Priority. How many more of them will self-destruct, Killing other innocent Children, Teachers, and Administrators before we act responsibly, and STOP the CUTS planned for the Mental Health Programs in Texas.

NC must seize "the opportunity to provide access to affordable health care to 500,000 currently uninsured North Carolinians." Hospitals "lose the most on patients who have no insurance at all" and "are counting on an increase in paying Medicaid patients to offset the scheduled loss of the federal indigent care funds." We can't afford to lose our many, small, rural hospitals operating so close to the edge. The House must not pass, and, if it does, Gov. McCrory must veto Senate Bill 4, No Exchange/No Medicaid Expansion. http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/18/2690111/verla-insko-keep-medicaid-funds.html

Over a dozen members of Congress just signed a letter to President Obama promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits." Rep. Lowenthal, show your constituents that you, too, will stand up against attacks on the social safety net that protects taxpayers -- cosign the Grayson-Takano letter!