An increase in funds allocated to these institutions will help treat more peoples afflicted. With our nation becoming more aware of mental illnesses and how they affect the society as a whole, we need to insure our peoples of South Dakota have every opportunity available to them for treatments, and keep the avenues open that are already in place. We need to address this issue and do all in our power now rather than later. So we implore you to delegate as much money as possible to the Mental Wellness Centers in South Dakota. From the small towns to the largest cities in South Dakota, they can really use your help. When both of us experienced mental health illnesses beyond our control, wellness centers helped us to get better. Now we work to support those centers, and one of us co-facilitates a mental illness support group. With our nation becoming more aware of mental illnesses and how they affect society as a whole, we need to ensure people of South Dakota have every opportunity available to them for treatment and keep the avenues open that are already in place.

Healthcare should be handled only by Medicare. Keep out the insurance companies! They pay any amount that the doctor or hospital asks for, no mater how obscene. All they do is raise the premiums! We live in, what is considered a depressed area, all the HMOs have moved out, since they cannot make enough profit here! I belong to Anthem Blue Cross but I cannot find a doctor here. All I get is a 5 minute "visit" and an enormous bill!

Universal Health Care

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My working family members need preventative health care. Insurance companies have set the deductibles so high that we cannot afford preventative care or life saving surgery. We do not qualify for the free clinic services because we are UNDERinsured and not UNinsured. None of my working family members are old enough for Medicare. We need to put a cap on the dollar amount that health insurance companies can ask for annual deductibles when it comes to preventative care and life saving surgery.

Unless Georgia Medicaid is expanded to include most of the half million plus uninsured Georgians, many of our small, rural hospitals will continue to be at risk for bankruptcy. The Indigent Care Fund is inadequate for current needs. Federal funding is available to provide 100% reimbursement to Georgia for Medicaid expansion for the next three years, and 90% until 2022. Why should Georgia lose this opportunity to enable its residents to obtain the health care they need at an affordable cost?

Medicare benefits, which I worked for, are less acceped t han Medicaid benefits, which pay for 100% for kids and mothers, that never worked to pay taxes as I have. I get 20% bill for everything..making my credit score, because of illness...below 250. Needs to change or a low supplementary benefit that we can afford on fixed income.

As a state run entity, Citizens should be run as a non profit, instead of a greedy corporation trying to suck every dollar out of its customers.

In North Carolina, there are 720,000 uninsured adults who would be eligible for Medicaid if the state expanded its Medicaid program. Providing such coverage will help people gain access to the care they need, which can improve health outcomes. In addition, the expansion would add about $1.4 billion to North Carolina's economy and total employment would increase by about 23,000 jobs.

legalize medical marijuana in Texas. It's been approved in other states and we here in the lone star state should have the benefits of this natural substance too.

Create a Georgia Health Exchange today. We should be making decisions about Georgia's health care, not abdicating control of our health care to the Federal Government. Georgians should establish an Exchange and manage their own Health Care Rights. Not to do so is short-sighted, anti State's Rights and counter-productive to the safety of all Georgians. .

This petition is to limit the government provided medical benefits to the approximately the same level as the citizens the elected officials govern. I am sick of paying thousands of dollars per month as an individual for me and my family while elected officials who are supposed to be representing me, get and give compensation to large corporations that turn around and charge me MORE money for medical coverage, that the corporations more often not simply deny anyway.