It was already too late when my friend, a UC Berkeley student Kenya Wheeler, found out that UC management caps our student health insurance coverage of lifesaving care. Now Kenya is having to fight off medical bankruptcy and collections agencies at the same time he is fighting to recover from brain cancer. But UC executives are trying to increase our health insurance fees by 25% instead of agreeing to meet Obamacare standards that would protect students like Kenya.

People with invisible illness such as Fibromyalgia, Lupus and many others should be able to obtain pain medication at any time with any Doctor. Iowa needs to be the first state to allow some humanity to those of us who suffer everyday in silence and fear of being pain managed beyond the current strict guidelines!

Did you know some Medical Centers, particularly university hospitals, charge uninsured or underinsured people 3, 5 or sometimes 10 times more than other health centers? Did you know these Medical Centers make it almost impossible for you to find out their prices before you accept to get services? You are being bullied. They assign you the doctor they want, they tell you what to do and where, and then they charge you what they want. what I am asking in this petition is not impossible: Ohio requires a hospital to make its price information list available free of charge on its web site to any person and post an announcement of the list's availability in each of the hospital's billing offices and admission, patient waiting, and reception areas. New Jersey caps hospital charges at no more than 15 percent above the Medicare payment rate for residents with a gross family income less than 500 percent of the federal poverty level.

Let's take a solution oriented approach to curbing the epidemic mentally ill people committing violence. Get to the root cause of the problem.

Medical Marijuana was voted and passed by the people of New Jersey for use by ill people who are determined by a State appointed Physician as useful for an ill patient. Yet in one of the most populace states in the Union, only one distribution store is open, and their hands are tied by only being allowed to grow at certain times of the year, and to only grow a limited amount. Other distribution centers would like to begin growing and helping patients, yet as of this moment, are not allowed to, while the state legislature is still accepting applications, accepting the money the patient is required to send along with the application, and issuing I.D. cards to these patients. The one distribution center is over 1000 patients behind, and since they are only allowed to grow a limited amount, will not be able to help these patients, who are hoping for the relief the marijuana could give them. So even though it is the will of the people, voted on and passed as law, Gov.Christie and Republican legislatures have made it impossible for deserving patients to receive help, circumventing the law.

I am a new resident to North Carolina and I am concerned about the Health Care for the lower income in this State and the Educational options for the lower income to get an Education that is progressive to the future of technology and the Country as a whole.

The entire country is affected by too many cowardly and/or "Republican Lite" Democratic leaders in congress. We need a new party that will support progressive Democrats and work against the others. Harry Reid's hypocritical failure to move forward on filibuster reform, along with a number of other Senate "Democrats", is all the evidence we need to demonstrate the need.

There are about 300,000 Mississippians who are uninsured because they can't afford to pay for insurance and they aren't eligible for medicaid. It is immoral to keep these people from medical care when it can be made available to them. Besides it would bring into this state hundreds of millions of dollars and create thousands of jobs.

Ankylosing Spondylitis(A.S.) is an auto-immune arthritis that affects 1.7 million people in the United States of America and over 33 million people in the world. This disease needs to be better understood by the government, healthcare professionals and general public. There is currently not a cure for A.S., but through more government funded research studies and education, the people who it affects and their families can enjoy more comfortable lives. Please visit www.helgiolafson.org to contact the leader of this petition. The Helgi Olafson Foundation is a non profit organization. My name is Helgi Olafson and I have Ankylosing Spondylitis. I am a health activist, educating and inspiring people around the world to live healthier lives and take control of this disease through my involvement in endurance sports.

A lot of senior citizens have little or no health insurance, going with the federal government will make it easier for all senior citizens.

Free Dental care for Vets

I was a Workers Compensation Claims Examiner for many years. Now I am an injured worker. I have seen both sides of the system. The system has been skewed in favor of Insurance Carriers. People with settlements entitling them to future medical benefits are being denied for no other reason than the carrier can get away with it. In these situations, the injured workers' attorney has already been paid. There are no longer penalties to keep Insurers in line, and no reason for the attorney to do anything. They don't work for free. The "penalty" system in place now does not discourage Insurance Carriers from playing games with benefits people are entitled to. My adjuster illegally stopped payment of awarded permanent disability benefits. The big penalty for creating havoc in my life: $37.00. The Insurers have total medical control. That means any doctor who still will treat an injured worker is more interested in keeping the Insurer happy than he is about taking care of the injured worker. This year a majority of my medical benefits will be taken away by a game called "utilization review". Instead of reviewing my medical history to determine if a benefit is necessary, my Insurer will send a few pages of records, along with their viewpoint, to what we use to call a "doc in a box". That's a doctor whose going to tell you what, as an Insurer, you want to hear. If these doctors authorize treatment and benefits, do you think the Carrier is going to continue using them? My carrier has gone through 3 Utilization Review companies in the last year! The Insurance Industry had managed to cut benefits, take complete control of medical treatment, kick attorneys out of the system...and there's no one to stop them. I began as an Examiner in 1992. Workers Comp laws had just been changed to protect the injured worker. We called the older cases "starve and settle", because that's what happened. The examiner would stop benefits and wait until the injured worker was in such financial straits that they'd settle for nothing. I have problems getting medical treatment I'm legally entitled to and there's not much I can do. It's time to stop this!