To abolish "observation" status for Medicare patients at hospitals. It pays Part 2 instead of Part 1, which is more costly for the patient and makes him/her ineligible for rehabilitation at most rehab centers. There is no notice given to a patient of this status and what it means to him/her financially.

Marijuana has many medicinal values. This petition is to give doctors and patients the right to choose a safer alternative to treating many painful and life-threatenning health conditions.

One person in twenty is getting the most cost-effective form of Medicare Part D for themselves. They don't know how to evaluate it and we all need help.

My petition is about dental benefits. I am disabled and I have medicaid and medicare, and I cannot afford dental insurance. Dental insurance should be included in medicaid: extracting teeth, relieving pain, dentures, partials, fillings for front teeth.

Handicapped children of divorce are punished twice.

Congress should mandate that ANY PHYSICIAN WHO USES HIS/HER MEDICAL LICENSE IN A CAPACITY IN WHICH THE PHYSICIAN'S DECISION(S) OR ACTION(S) AFFECT THE CARE OF THE PATIENT SHOULD BE HELD TO THE SAME STANDARD(S) OF CARE AS THE PHYSICIAN(S) WHO DIRECTLY CARE FOR THE PATIENT. Currently, physicians who are hired by insurance carriers, HMO's and other health care entities for the purpose of COST-CONTAINMENT are not held to the same standard(s) of care as the physician(s) who care directly for the patient. Were Congress to mandate a uniformly high standard of care for all physicians who use their medical license to influence patient care, decision-making standards would improve and patients would benefit dramatically.

Donald Berwick has designed methods for making healthcare effective and safe

The Florida governor and legislature are now petitioning for an extension to get a healthcare exchange set up in Florida. It is becoming very clear to a number of watch dog organizations that their intention is not to help the citizens of Florida but to set up an exchange that will fail. They can then use this as leverage in an attempt to have Obamacare repealed.

I myself effected by Job and Health care we can not keep the American Life style anymore these cuts most be stopped.

Flouride, the chemical, that is added to our water supply is extremely toxic. (read your toothpaste tube lately?) It not only causes tooth decay, and bone marrow problems, especially in children, but also adversely affects the Central Nervous System. If injested in sufficient amounts (which isn't much) it will lower the IQ of a child's brain. We need to protect our children, not poison them - they are our future.

Obamacare as you all refer to it. I am 51 years old, my husband has a pre existing condition which has no known cure. I have two children a 19 year old a sophomore in college and an 18 year old a senior in high school. I want to option to keep my children on our insurance until they turn 26. Their focus at this time of their lives needs to be about an education not health care expenses.

As a Vietnam Combat Veterans who must be classified as one of the "returning wounded" from that generation and VA Service Rep for over 30 years, that was medically retired from VA Employment, I was at a meeting on July 30, 2012 with Congressman John Lewis, where issues about the Atlanta VA were discussed and the Congressman promised to start hearings on these complaints. This petition is to get the Congressman to keep his promise to start these hearings, and thereafter introduce a Bill to Overhaul the VA. The courts, veterans' complaints and the media have provided evidence of this need for years. The time for action is now.