Given the fact there are so many obstacles to discourage former patients from submitting a medical malpractice case in Maryland, I have had a great deal of trouble with my case this year. Why does the Maryland House, Senate and Governor make patients' situations as difficult as they do? Medical Doctors obviously do NOT want to sign a Certificate of Merit against another M.D. Given the fact you must have a signed Certificate of Merit to enter a case into the Maryland Health Care Dispute Resolution Office, many doctors guilty of malpractice are never found responsible for their distructive actions. A psychiatrist, Dr. Sanjeev Singhal, decided I was bipolar, even though I am not bipolar. After being labled as bipolar, no practioner would listen to my MS symptoms. My former Neurologist, Dr. Prafull Dave, would not write me an Rx to MRI my brain, that I requested, while I still had RRMS. My former Orthopeadic M.D. , Dr. Mark Chilton, even wrote in my medical records that the pain I was experiencing was because I was bipolar. Given the fact I knew something must be wrong with me, I kept trying to have a health care professional to properly diagnose my condition. After my Multiple Sclerosis was not diagnosed or treated for more than 3 years, my MS developed from Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis to Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis and I am now permanently and totally disabled.

The massive cuts to Health Care, and Mental Healthcare Funding in the State of Louisiana. My daughter is a mental health patient, and her healthcare is cut. She has loss the local facilitied in the New Orleans Region to assist with her care.

health care that everyone should have. Also, medicare for state employees who are retired needs a lot of work. Who came up with Generation X should be ashamed. That affects me since io have paid for this for many years.

Washington State HB1085 and SB 5224 will provide single payer health care for all Washington's people. The hearing for HB 1085 is scheduled for Feb 1 in Olympia. Please contact Washington State legislators and tell them to vote for it. Health care is a right and this will provide.

Healthy families mean a healthy future for South Carolina.

We need to reform the mental heath laws and mental heath care. My husband is metally ill because of PTSD and there is no way I can get him the help he needs. The laws that have been passed to pertect people are hurting them and the people who love them because we can not get them the help they need for there mental illness. We need to reform heath care laws for the mentally ill not gun control.

Please allow Vermonters to chose their method of death. Everyone should be able to control their own pain and suffering.

Please consider a Bill that would provide Chronic Pain Patients, the narcotic pain medication their Dr.'s know will improve their quality of life. It is vitally necessary for those that are in chronic pain to receive the appropriate medication ones Dr. deems necessary, for those that are in legitimate in chronic pain.

Please help the people who need this medicine,let;s not be the last state to do so!

My son Christopher was only 9 months old when he was diagnosed with SJS. He endured so much pain at such a young age. At first it started out with fevers & rashes than he began to get blisters inside & outside of his body. He had to be quarantined because the doctors couldn't figure out what he had. He was unable to eat on his own, so the doctors had to give him a TPN which is an iv that feeds the body nutrient fluids through the vein in order to survive without eating solid food. He was unable to move & was in constant pain. As a mother it broke my heart to see my infant son go through this & there was absolutely nothing I could do to ease his pain or make him well again. By the grace of God & the Doctors who have dedicated themselves to help my son, he was one of the fortunate ones that survived SJS. He has not had another SJS breakout since & is a normal healthy 8 yr old boy. Please make August Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Awareness month so we help educate others on SJS & catch symptoms early enough to save lives.

I volunteer at a Free Clinic (sliding payment scale applies) and know how desperate people are who do not have health care coverage! There are so many of these folks crying out for help.

There are many among us, my mother included, that are affected by serious ailments. All these so called "Miracle drugs" have more side effects than should be allowed. Some of them being worse than the ailment for which they are offered. Marijuana offers a natural alternative with way fewer side effects.