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RESOLUTION OF U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS WHEREAS, Americans believe that women should be able to consult with their doctor, family, and faith about personal, private medical decisions; and WHEREAS, states enacted twice as many anti-choice laws in 2011 as they did in the previous year, including laws that force women who choose abortion care to undergo a forced ultrasound procedure against their will and even if their doctors do not recommend one; and WHEREAS, eight states since 2010 have enacted laws that ban abortion at 20 weeks, regardless of the women’s situation, without exceptions to protect her health, and in violation of the right to privacy guaranteed under Roe v. Wade; and WHEREAS, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to defund Title X, the only federal program exclusively dedicated to family-planning and reproductive-health care, and Planned Parenthood, jeopardizing access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other basic health care for millions of Americans; and WHEREAS, the U.S. House of Representatives also passed a bill that could spur the Internal Revenue Service to audit rape survivors who choose abortion care and another bill that would allow hospitals to refuse emergency abortion care to women who could die without it; and WHEREAS, the debate around women’s access to reproductive-health services, like contraception, has drawn offensive rhetoric; and WHEREAS, reproductive-health care and the overwhelming majority of services provided by Planned Parenthood health centers is basic health care for women, including cancer screenings and breast exams; and WHEREAS, for many women with limited incomes, Planned Parenthood clinics are their point of entry into the health care system and their ongoing source of primary care services; and WHEREAS, if these services disappear, more women are likely to contract diseases that will imperil their lives and lead to highly expensive Medicaid and Medicare bills borne by taxpayers; and WHEREAS, these programs are essential to reducing rates of unintended pregnancy and preventing the increase of the number of women with cervical and breast cancers who are not diagnosed until the cancers are in the late stages; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the U.S. Conference of Mayors affirms the importance of women’s reproductive rights; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the U.S. Conference of Mayors urges Congress and the states to pursue a positive agenda that reaffirms fundamental rights and improves women’s access to safe and comprehensive reproductive-health care. RESOLUTION ADOPTED JUNE 2012

Yes, I have been effected by the high cost of insurance in Texas.

Obama you promised to back "GMO labeling on foods" What happened to that promise you made?

Is Congress entitled to health care for themselves and their families at the cost of taxpayers

Stop MICRA. Please sign petition to stop discrimination against "We The People" to receive access to malpractice lawyers and a jury trial with a jury's verdict if a doctor has wrongfully caused a death or has caused a permanent disability on an innocent person/victim. Right now the insurance companies have convinced California legislators to cap pain and suffering to $250,000. This is a door stopper for any attorney to take a malpractice case. It costs more than $250,000 to take a malpractice case to trial, including expert witnesses etc. Doctors are now being protected since victim's family cannot retain an attorney, cannot get subpoenaed records of what actually happened during the death or permanent medical damage. Doctors who kill or permanently harm are able to avoid Civil trials due to MICRA; thus keeping their doors open to you and your family. Unknowingly, you could be the next innocent patient who walks into a doctor's office who practices under the acceptable standard of care, and have a fatal outcome. Especially today when doctors across all specialities are overdosing and overprescribing opiates even to include these dangerous drugs in prescribed cough medicine. Speak Up for your life. Demand MICRA to be put to sleep. End MICRA.

Everyone has been touched in one way or the other by childhood obesity including me. And since we have a simple, cost effective tool at our disposal with which to systematically prevent childhood obesity, it's high time we replace all the abstract talk with concrete action!

There is a shortage of psychiatrists in California. 85 percent of psychological prescriptions are written by General Practitioners, because there are not enough psychiatrists available to people. Many primary care providers depend on psychologists to recommend a psychotropic drug. Retrained psychologists need to be allowed to write prescriptions .

I have a severe mental illness, and I'm worried about the long term physical damage the medications may have on my body. I've been on at least three different kinds of medication at once since I was 15 years old, and what's always puzzled me, is why I have to be on all of these medications, when further in life, I'll have to take more medications to try and repair the damage the prior medications have done. In case you haven't yet guessed, this petition is for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of medicinal marijuana in the state of Louisiana, if not the rest of the country. I don't believe I, nor people like me, should have to subject ourselves to permanent physical damage, for temporary psychological relief. We deserve better, and so do you.

Congress Hold Hearings on Migraine Disease To be delivered to: The United States Senate and The United States House of Representatives Urge Congressional Hearings on the Impact of Migraine and Headache Disorders, especially before the Primary Health and Aging Subcommittee of the Senate HELP Committee and/or before the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, prior to the close of the 112th Congress (January 2013). I suffer from chronic daily migraines. Migraines have rendered me unable to work, have reduced my social support to a few old friends, have robbed me of the opportunity to fulfill my goals and dreams, have stopped me from engaging as a citizen in important civic issues, and have damaged my relationship with my family of origin, who see me as lazy and negative. According to the National Headache Foundation, more than 29.5 million Americans suffer from migraine, with women being affected three times more often than men. Of those affected, 38% of migraineurs suffer from 1-12 migraines each year, 38% get 1-3 a month, 37% get 1 per week, and 11% get 2-6 migraines a week (relieve-migraine-headache.com). Chronic migraine (15+ migraines per month) impacts approximately 3.2 million Americans (Migraine.com). Migraine ranks in the top 20 most disabling diseases according to the WHO....and yet it is one of the most misunderstood diseases, by both the general public and health care professionals. While societal costs are hard to quantify, migraine disease has a significant economic impact: headache disorders lead to more than $31B in economic costs in the US annually. Despite these statistics, the National Institute of Health gave less than 0.05% of its 2007 budget to migraine research ($13M) which translates to approximately $0.36 per migraineur. Diabetes, in comparison, received $1.037B (or $49.38 per diabetic). There has been no improvement in the funding: in 2010 the percentage was the same. Over the past 50 years, only one innovative drug (sumatriptan), discovered and developed specifically for migraine, has been approved for clinical use after review by the FDA. Only 290 US doctors are Board-certified as specialty trained in Headache Medicine. It is well past time for migraine disease and other headache disorders to receive the funding and attention they deserve. To date, no US Congressional committee has ever held a public hearing on headache disorders yet just recently they discussed Lyme disease, estimated to affect 40,000 people. Unless Congress fully understands the disease there is no reason to believe the National Institute of Health will allocate more of its budget to headache and migraine research. Without more research, we will have the status quo: ineffective treatments and millions of Americans needlessly living in pain. The Alliance for Headache Advocacy has formed a petition asking Congress to hold hearings before the close of the 112th Congressional Session. As of March 2012, they only had some 10K signatures. Perhaps this is because migraineurs are in too much pain to advocate for themselves. Please help me to bombard them with signatures.

I have a multiple medical conditions. If I did not have obama care and the right to obtain health insurance from a provider: EX: BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD. I would not be alive today. By me having the right to chose doctors, providers and purchase heatlh care insurance that is afforable on my fixed monthly income. The doctors and providers has multiple opportunities to explore treatments for my multipe, incurable, unpredictable medical conditions that I would not have been possible without Obama Care and afforable health care. I'm very thankful and blessed by God to have the chance to live and obtain my dreams.

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