• Poison in your tapwater
    Fluoride in tapwater is a waste by-product of the aluminum and fertilizer industry. It is a basic ingred. in rat poisons and Sarin nerve gas. It increases the risk of bone fractures in elderly, lowers IQ in children. Harvard study found fluoride contributes to rare bone cancer in boys. 97% of Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to known health risks, and it was classified as compulsory medication [unlawful] and therefore violated fundamental humane rights.In 2010 Time mag.listed fluoride as one of the top ten household toxins and described it as both "neurotoxic and potentially tumorigenic if swallowed". Read the back of your toothpaste tube....It says "call poison control if swallowed"...How much do your children swallow when they brush? We are being systematically poisoned. This must end. Educate yourselves about fluoride!!!!!
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    Created by Elizabeth Mcpherson
  • How not having access to Medicaid could change your life.
    My husband and I were caring for my mother and his father. When they each needed admission to a nursing facility we would have lost our home and I would have had to quit my job to tend to them if it hadn't been for Medicaid. Both of them had worked all their lives but didn't have the resources to cover such an expense.
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    Created by Bette Gregory
  • Women's' health
    In science, all kinds of new and innovative medicine is and may available. Choice is between the M D and the patient AND what is the best outcome. Often these decisions are personal and difficult.
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    Created by Joyce Beauchamp
  • Support affordable healthcare!
    I'm a member of United Auto Workers Local 2350. I work for state employees in California. Every day I fight to maintain or improve state employees' benefits, but my own healthcare has been secretly and illegally cut. Two months ago Management circumvented our union and illegally imposed vicious cuts that as of Jan. 1, 2013, will drastically cut healthcare benefits for current employees and future retirees, and eliminate retiree healthcare for all new hires. The healthcare cuts unfairly impact lower income workers and those with families. We need you to stand with working class families and tell the California State Employees Association (CSEA) and its affiliates - the Association of California State Supervisors (ACSS), California State Retirees (CSR), and California State University Employees Union (CSUEU) - to retract their illegally imposed healthcare attacks and return to the bargaining table!
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    Created by Kevin Glidden
  • Needs of people with Physical and Psychiatric Disabilities that come together
    The acknowledgement of Physical Disabilites are not being acknowledged when u have a Psychiatric Diagnosis. Everything is considered solely psychiatric.
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    Created by Laura Ann K Bernstein
  • Senator Nelson: Stop forced vaccinations
    I was fired from my job a year ago for refusing to get the flu vaccine. The state of Texas is forcing healthcare workers to be vaccinated w/o consent. Now, there is a law that would demand all kindergarteners to receive forced vaccinations as well
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    Created by David Niles
  • Keep the Gilda in Gilda's Club
    Gilda's Club is a non-profit organization that exists to provide a place for people living with cancer, their families and friends to come for emotional support. It is named after the late, great Gilda Radner, who died from ovarian cancer in 1989. It was founded by her husband, Gene Wilder, Joanna Bull, Radner's cancer psychotherapist during the time she had cancer, and broadcaster Joel Siegel. Now they want to change the name to "Cancer Support Community" as they feel younger people don't know who Gilda was and therefore there is no meaning in the name. As a single mom who is fighting cervical cancer, I assure you, the name means something. I don't want to go to a "Cancer Support Community." I hear the word cancer enough on a daily basis. It is sterile and meaningless. It is not a home. It is not a safe place. It is not a place I feel I can turn to. Gilda's Club is. Gilda once said cancer gave her "membership to an elite club I'd rather not belong to." THAT is a concept we all can relate to. THAT is someplace that I know will understand. There are many organizations, educational institutes, hospitals, and more named after people that the younger generations may not know. They are named after these people for reasons. Instead of striping them of their names, let us educate and keep the memory of those people alive. Gilda deserves it. Please help us keep the Gilda in Gilda's Club.
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    Created by Natali Heuss
  • Pain contracts can undermine patient trust.
    These contracts are being used in several States, and they are causing more harm to the innocent people that suffer from severe pain than helping these people. I am one of those people.
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    Created by The Maine Pain
  • Criminalize BigPharma’s Off-Label Distribution of Dangerous Antipsychotics to Elderly in Nursing ...
    Every day tens of thousands of Americans in nursing homes are prescribed antipsychotics to “treat” Alzheimer’s and other dementias, although in most cases the antipsychotics lack FDA approval for treating dementia, have no therapeutic value for that purpose, and pose great risks for the patient, including untreated pain, confusion, and early death. Many of these drugs are ultimately paid for by taxpayer dollars through Medicare and Medicaid, feeding the obscene profits of pharmaceutical companies like Abbott Laboratories and Eli Lilly, both of whom were convicted of promoting antipsychotics for dementia.
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    Created by Alixa Doom
  • Veterans@Camp Lejeune from 1988 and beyond
    Camp Lejeune MCB had a water contamination issue that affected many Active Duty Military and families, causing major health issues and diseases such as Cancer, and Leukemia which led to deaths of many including children. Camp Lejeune toxic water contamination 1950s-1987. ... The toxic water contained Volatile Organic Compounds (PCE TCE), toxic fuel derivatives and ... In the case of those families who spent time at Camp Lejeune, a bill was signed by President Obama Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012, military families who have been affected by the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina will have the health care they need. The main problem with this bill is that those of us that served beginning 1988 aren't eligible for anything. I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2009, my oncologist said since it doesn't run in my family it seemingly is Environmental. My late husband stationed at Lejeune from 1985 until 1991 died in 2006 because he accidentally overdosed by self medicating for the extremely painful headaches he endured while residing in the barracks of HP-55, which we both resided prior to our marriage. Unfortunately, my husband Cpl Bryan Morris didn't live to know about the water contamination or how it has affected both him, his children and myself. Their is no way that the clean up for something that was lurking in the water supply system for over 30 years would be cleaned up by 1987, much less 1988, 1989 and so on. It is imperative for all of the servicemen and women who were both living and working on the base during those times to also get benefits for health issues they have been diagnosed with since their departure from Camp Lejeune MCB, Jacksonville, N.C.
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    Created by Kimberly Parker
  • Negotiate Medicare Prices
    Both political parties and the media seem to avoid the topic of negotiated Medicare prescription drug prices. This is an area offering the greatest savings but both parties and the mainstream media receive too much money from the drug companies to actively talk about it let alone take action.
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    Created by Edward Dunne
  • medical use of marijuana
    The leagalazation of medical marijuana
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    Created by calvin