There is a growing awareness that something is not quite right. We know the importance of choosing to eat healthy foods and how that decision effects our long term health. We're also coming to understand that the same decision has a direct effect on our environment.

I THINK CONGRESS WOULD BE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF A GOOD HEALTH SYSTEM FOR EVERYBODY IF THEY HAD TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN HEALTHCARE.

My premium has increased about 1100% each month. I know there are many others out there in similar situations.

The HIV treatment and prevention landscape has changed dramatically in the last few years, thanks in part to the support of members of Congress. We know the end of HIV is in sight, but we haven't crossed the finish line yet. Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AAs and NHPIs) are still the least likely race or ethnicity to get tested for HIV--even in a world with health care reform, a unified National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and promising new approaches to HIV treatment and prevention. We think that's unacceptable. And it won't help us "end HIV" for our communities. This World AIDS Day (Dec 1), challenge your Senators or Representatives to stand up for AAs and NHPIs in the fight to end AIDS. Remind them to be our advocates when making HIV and public health policy decisions. Because AAs and NHPIs get HIV, too. And WE COUNT!

We live in West Dallas, Texas, for 18 years where the lead plant fill the air with lead for miles around it. They paid some of the people and have been stalling to pay the rest of us, no matter how many time we filled out the paper work for lawyers, but have not got paid. They paid the first set of people in 1968.

Every year the president pardons a pair of turkeys on Thanksgiving and then sits down to a large meal including turkey for dinner. End this hypocrisy by urging the Obama family to set the right example for American by eating an all vegan meal on Thanksgiving. As a country the United States continues to become more obese, and have some of the highest rates of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, breast and prostate cancer, and osteoporosis in the world despite having some of the best medical technology. All of these health issues have been found to be related to the consumption of animal protein in our diet. Many of these can be prevented and some even reversed with a vegan diet. The Obama family can set the tone for lower medical costs and better health in America by consuming a compassionate all vegan Thanksgiving dinner. Please join me in asking the Obama family to have an all vegan Thanksgiving dinner.

Officials elected on the federal level receive lifetime healthcare. Better healthcare than the average citizen receives.

Currently, the state of Kentucky does not allow Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW) be providers for medicaid clients unless they are "under" a physician. The license is recognized by the state as allowing therapists to provide treatment independently. No other insurance company requires supervision; in fact, many companies will only pay claims if a client is seen by a LCSW (most who are working independently). Clients who are poor, poorly educated, disabled, etc. are facing problems getting mental health treatment due to limited access to medicaid providers.

I am very concerned about Congress' disregard for the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. These are systems that I depend upon.

I was scheduled to receive a steroid injection during all this fungus caused death/damage concern caused by NECC (New England Compounding Co.). I learned, with a few hours to spare, that the medicine I would be getting was safe. So many others are not that lucky. Twenty Five Americans have been killed by sloppiness of the NECC and their making of the medicines. And not for the first time! The year 2002 was another major problem year. It does not need to continue. We need for any company that produces medicine for humans to be inspected on a regular basis and demonstrate to the FDA and CDC that they are clean, sterile, and know what they are doing.

Pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs) do not allow me to access my local pharmacy or they impose a much higher copay if I do not use their mail order service. These drug middlemen hinder my access to local healthcare in the name of corporate profit. This practice MUST stop.

The national wait time for organs for people is on the rise. Kidney wait times on average are 1219 days. The system for the wait list needs to change. There is a better way.