A Public Option, granting every American the right to purchase an affordable and all-inclusive health care plan, will not only save thousands of lives, but will solve many of our economic problems. As a physician, I am acutely aware of the inability of our present for-profit system to ever provide quality, affordable health care. A choice must be given to the American people.

To establish a research program under the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program of the Department of Defense to discover a cure for HIV?AIDS

The mass shootings that have taken place this past year have shown that gun laws don't work and simply aren't the answer to solving this countries problem with mass shooters. Proper mental health care, available to everyone would do more to identify and care for people who need it.

The most recent spate of horrific and deadly shootings and people opening fire in public places has spurned a nationwide discussion on how to address this issue which has largely been focused on gun control and has ignored a huge root cause: the devastating mental illness of the shooters. I have worked in the mental health field for more than a decade and personally have watched those I love struggle with serious chronic mental illness and all the social shrapnel involved including social stigma and underfunded programs to help treat and support the afflicted and those who love them. These programs are historically underfunded since Kennedy's well intentioned and poorly enacted de-institutionalization Community Mental Health policies to help close the barbaric state school and hospitals in favor of more community oriented treatment facilities in the 1960s and 1970s. Instead, the funding that was poured into the hospitals was re-routed away from mental healthcare before the community supports could be created and when they finally were, the funding was and continues to be scarce and is cut every year. The results have been devastating: high levels of mental illness in the court systems, jails, homeless on the street and at its most extreme opening fire in public places with little or no resources or recourse for the families and professionals working with these folks. Everyone knows someone with chronic mental illness. It is a common affliction that is historically demonized and misunderstood. Mental illness does not make BAD PEOPLE, it creates BAD BEHAVIORS which with good programs, interventions and supports can be managed. And until we as a society are ready to acknowledge and deal with this common affliction, we will continue to witness the horrors perpetuated by the bad behaviors caused by mental illness.

Iowa based Fareway grocery chain has decided to cut employee hours so they will not have to provide health insurance in compliance with the Affordable Care Act. Fareway has chosen to not make the moral choice and provide health insurance for it's employees.

The petition aims for improved regulation of this so-called "low-income" insurance program administered by NY State under provisions of a 2001 piece of legislation, and to assure that modifications to that law provide the same benefits available to employer-based insurance policies. As a subscriber to "Healthy New York," I am alarmed at the increases on premiums and the denial of standard benefits like physical therapy and mental health services.

Families desperately need assistance in providing early intervention, proper and timely treatment compliance, and sustained support for themselves and their loved ones who suffer from severe neurological brain disorders with anosognosia.

Last year, Governor Rick Perry announced that he would not accept new federal dollars to expand the state's Medicaid program. By rejecting these funds, nearly 2-million Texans will be uninsured. Tell Governor Perry to reverse course and accept federal Medicaid dollars and protect the 2-million Texans that would benefit.

To make certain no one has to endure the mental, physical and financial hardship I have endured in the last 6 years.

There is a need for blood of all types around the United States, and the World. Restricting Homosexual men, like myself, from donating blood. allowing the donation would bring in thousands of pints of much needed blood.

I needed to find my Medical Records to trace the Health History of when I was a child, and the affects of my mothers alcoholism and surgeries I had as a child, however after 7-10 years the record are destroyed. My child needs to trace her medical record now as she is 20 to understand what treatments were use and if this is something that was done as I was a child. but they have been destroyed.

The mission of our grass-roots group, Morris View Families and Friends, is to keep Morris View as a county-owned facility for our loved ones, our neighbors, and ourselves. This top-notch nursing home and sub-acute care center consistently achieves top ratings by oversight agencies of our state and federal government. It is clean and spacious and offers a full range of services for residents. Staff are caring, responsive, and qualified; they openly communicate with families. Thanks to careful oversight by past boards of Morris County freeholders, Morris View has tremendous value for our communities. We ask current freeholders to keep it that way.