One of my best friends has cancer and medicinal marijuana is the only thing that helps ease the pain and restore her appetite. The state of Florida should join over a dozen states and allow sick people to purchase medicinal marijuana prescribed by their doctor. To jail seriously ill patients over their medicine is cruel and wrong.

We have a right to know when buying food what it is we are purchasing. Let's Label GMO foods so we can avoid purchasing it. It should only be made for fuel for automobiles not animals or humans!

We need to start giving our children "real" food in schools. Studies have shown that the more children eat processed and sugary foods and beverages the more likely they are to become obese, diseased and have violent tendencies. If we all got together and spoke with local farmers and growers we could easily be able to give our children real nutrition. We must change policies to make it easier to accomplish this. I am not a mother but I am witnessing what these deplorable disease causing foods are doing to my siblings children. I am also a Holistic Nutritionist and know how harmful these foods that are being offered to our children are.

People leaving the work force or 'retiring' before they planned who have 10 years or less to Medicare should be able to purchase insurance through COBRA until age 65 when REAL healthcare coverage begins. Additionally, if within 10 years of Medicare Eligibility, one forced out of insurance should be able to purchase insurance through COBRA or reasonably priced policies from the 'exchange' for more than 18 months and until Medicare eligible. While losing a job at any age is not a pleasant experience, an unexpected job loss at an age when many have preexisting conditions can be devastating in many ways, including healthcare coverage. Not that COBRA is cheap, it is FAR cheaper than premiums for those with preexisting conditions that have real needs to be covered. Having to pay anything, especially MUCH MORE than the COBRA costs is just one more slap in the face of a willing, formerly hardworking person and their dependents.

Ban perscription drug advertizing and pass the millions of dollars saved onto the consumer, thus lowering medical cost for all.

Medicare for all. Our present insurance system is to expensive and makes us uncompetative in the world economy. We don't need insurance companys. Their CEO' s are the highest paid on Wallstreet.

The Texas Legislature and Governor Rick Perry want to eliminate Planned Parenthood from the Women's Health program in the state of Texas. Thousands of Texas women rely on Planned Parenthood for breast exams, pap smears and other preventative care as well as birth control and prenatal care.

Maine's decision to sue to drop people from Medicaid puts us on the front line in the battle for basic healthcare coverage for those of us who can't afford healthcare on our own. I have a family member that will be directly affected by Maine's attempt to drop people from Medicaid. She will not be able to afford her anti-seizure medication on her own leaving her very vulnerable life threatening grand mal seizures. This is an issue that might have consequences for the whole country while we fight to get everyone affordable healthcare. So lets show our elected officials that we do have a voice and will not be manipulated into giving up what the whole country has fought so hard to secure.

Governor Lepage is planning to cut Medicaid from 36,000 young people and low income parents in order to "balance the budget". This effort is not only shortsighted but it will save any money. This cost will be shifted to the taxpayers and many more people will suffer from poor health.

I am a dialysis patient on disability at age 63. Except for this "entitlement" I would be dead. Now we hear about people 55 and older won't be affected by the Republican approach to Medicare, so what do I say? "To hell with those 54 and younger?" This is a despicable divide and conquer approach. Medicare is not something to be evaluated only on a fiscal basis though that’s important, it must me evaluated on a human basis. What kind of civilized society are we if only the “Pharaohs” benefit?

Do you like being sick? Are you ready to trust your health in government that denies our veterans who suffer with service aquired chronic infections, disease, and slow painful deaths? What about our childrens lives and the "unexplainable" medical conditions they aquired without any family history? I DEMAND A PETITION TO OFFICIALLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR PAIN AND SUFFERING BY SERVICE AQUIRED PATHOGENS AND DISEASE!!

Whereas, not all disabled workers are eligible for medicare until age 65 or older due to numerous admistrative laws/rules & encumbrances.. We the denied but ruled legally medically Disabled. Do hereby demand the removal of all encumbrances to our access to earned medical care & for the prevention of medical bankruptcy from predatory medical insurance complexes that benefit from workers injured in our global economic war & from the techinical encumbrances of insurers & goverment red tape with no regard for grievants socioEconomic family plight . Do hereby demand fair & full renumeration & back dated reinstatement (date of disability) of Medicare from this injustice of being profiled & denied the benefits of lost benefits/income from the past to present disabling injustice...rightNow !