NO DENTEL CARE FOR MOST VETERANS!!

This petition is about forcing a public discussion about prescription drugs similar to the gun control issue now being promoted in the mainstream media. My son was forced to take neuroleptic drugs by state psychiatrists and the effects of those drugs has ruined his life and caused havoc in our family.

I have a disturbed and periodically violent grandson who had to be sent from his home state of Washington, devoid of any residential schools for kids with mental illness, to one of the few facilities for kids like him in NM. There should be facilities everywhere for these kids so that the massacres which have occurred in recent years will be greatly diminished.

We need to focus on rational, sensible changes that make Medicare a sustainable benefit for the greatest number of people. The vast majority of Medicare funds are spent in the final year or months of a person's life. Health care now enables me to have a quality life despite heart disease and leukemia, but when the time comes that these diseases or just age are ending my life, it makes no sense to use vast healthcare funds to postpone death for a few months.

Constitutional Amendment providing for quality health care for all citizens of the United States of America and control of Healthcare costs. We should all have the right to quality healthcare in this country despite our economic status. Hosptals and Doctors are not accepting Medicaid ! Medicare Advantage plans are finding ways to deny expenses with co-pays,co insurance payments and deductables but the costs of such services are out of control. Hospitals are denying treatment and people are forced to make the horrible choices that lead to more serious conditions. Let's seek a constituional Amendment that provides for Healthcare cost restrictions and the Gurantee of Medical treatment. Obamacare is a start but to gurantee would provide our rights to fair and equitable billing be studied and costs limited to what we can afford to pay ! A constitutional amendment would also gurantee that Obamacare would not be subject to repeal . Let's stand up for what's right.

Royal Farms of Maryland attempts to avoid implementation of PPACA (Obamacare)

Antibiotics in food have been connected with many health issues.It is time for the FDA to do its job in regulating the farms that use it.

Virginia lawmakers have an opportunity right now to expand health care access for thousands of Virginians. Greater access to health care promotes a healthier Virginia, both physically and economically. While all sectors including businesses, hospitals and currently insured can benefit, it is consumer livelihood that is literally at stake. For thousands of Virginians, closing the coverage gap is the difference between just barely getting by and the opportunity to get ahead. Virginians cannot accept further delay. We urge the House of Delegates to provide coverage without delay to the 200,000 Virginians who fall in the coverage gap and create 30,000 new jobs. Let’s get our families the care they need and our seniors the care they’ve earned.

The state of Louisiana is considering a budget that would eliminate all Hospice care to people covered by Medicaid and ending a program that largely uses federal welfare dollars to provide unique mental health treatment to very young children. More than 5,800 people received Hospice care through Medicaid in 2012. Eliminating the Early Childhood Supports and Services program will save the state only $134,000 for a program which receives a $2.7 million federal match.

Cut back the defense budget where we spend billions to kill children in other countries.... especially third world countries..and use that to help mentall ill patients here in the US.

Instead of focusing on access to firearms, we should be concerned with the help that is available to the mentally ill, in our sorrow over the shootings in Connecticut.

With school funding decreasing and staff cuts on the rise, school counselor's are one of the first positions being cut. School counselor's are being cut to 2-3 days or to none at all. One of the roles a school counselor has is to teach specials while teachers have their planning time. With up to 8 hours a week teaching, and other administrative work, part time doesn't allow for the time needed to meet with the students to address their social and emotional concerns. With the recent tragedies, obvious mental health counselor's are needed at all levels of education. Student's go through divorce, bullying, abuse, neglect, substance abuse (and the list goes on). They often don't know how to explain what they are feeling. This is just one of the area's school counselors are available for. Federal funding for school counselor's can help all students in their social and emotional health.