20% of GDP s dedicated to healthcare spending and 77 million baby boomers are just beginning to retire. Many of these folks savings will be wiped out with one emergency room visit. Which means this 2 trillion dolar and growing government expense is not going away anytime soon.

Everyone's health will be affected.

Other metropolitan communities that are the size of Richmond have a comprehensive pediatric care hospital. Richmond has a need to serve this community and the best way to do this is to build a pediatric hospital which will enhance the Richmond community.

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!!!!!

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.

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.

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!

The acknowledgement of Physical Disabilites are not being acknowledged when u have a Psychiatric Diagnosis. Everything is considered solely psychiatric.

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

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.

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.

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.