Are we crazy? WHY do we allow our representatives to have the best healthcare benefits in America? Let's join together and have ONE PETITION sent to congress.

My friend Meagan Sunde has battled cancer 3 times starting when she was 18 yrs old~ Hodgkin's Lymphoma; 2 times with breast cancer. She is a wife, mother, and friend to many in our close-knit neighborhood. United Healthcare, is denying her coverage for the proton radiation treatment she recieved. Proton radiation treatment was recommended by her doctors and was the only option avialable to Meagan to treat the cancer. And it worked, she is cancer-free today! Meagan pays her premiums every month, and United Healthcare is refusing to hold up their end of the agreement. Meagan has been appealing with United Healthcare since April 2012 to cover the treatments. Should Meagan really have to fight United Healthcare for cancer treatments that worked? Should her family face financial hardships if UnitedHealthcare doesn't pay? Meagan is cancer-free today because of the proton radiation treament she received that United Healthcare doesn't want to pay for. Would you want your insurance to deny paying for the only treatment available to save your life? We would like her to be armed with this petition to show our support, so please pass it on!

Presidant Obama was asked on ABC if he would also use the health care program for him and his family and he totally ignored the question and never answered . Then the same question was asked to the Congress and the Repreasentatives and they said they would think about it . This happened the other day and today the Congress voted that they be exempt from the health care program . NOW TELL ME WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT other then it is all about what they can get for themselves at the expense of the people . IT'S TIME TO STAND UP AND MAKE THESE GREEDY BASTARDS do their job which is to help America and not just them selves . We need to get huge numbers of Americans to sign this petition and send it to the White House demanding that all politicians have the same health care program as us . NO ONE SHOULD BE EXEMPT

It is an embarrassment that the United States is the only First World nation without universal health care. Reactionaries put pressure on Americans to believe that illusory "choices" are more important than having access to health care in the first place. Sign now to show that the most important choice you can make is for each American to have access to the health care s/he needs - and thereby the ability to do meaningful work without the pressure to provide health care benefits.

We the disabled should be able to shop where we want. We would like this to become a law, that all stores that are so many square feet need to carry mortorize carts or wheelchairs. This would help the store owners get more customers and help the economy. I am disabled. I went to a big store asked them if they had a wheelchair they said "No". So they lost a customer.

BY defunding (in the middle of the night ) planned parenthood, N.C. legislature has denied people with limited incomes, teens, and the uninsured the ability to obtain health care. For many, Planned Parenthood is their only access to health care.

Currently nurses are often forced between doing what they know is right and refusing to care for more patients then they are capable of and staying employed. The quality of care suffers and patients get drive through care because nurses have know time to monitor and assess properly. This is a law they has been attempted before and I know some are against it I guess they'll have a change of thought when one of there loved ones dies because the nurse has a 10 patient work load with one or no aid and just didn't have time to provide care the way she was trained to do.

Some people want to kill Medicare but the problems is: it needs to be changed. The items covered under Medicare don't cover the real needs that most seniors need: dental, hearing and sight. Last night while watching TV, two commerals came on for male enchanment products, one was a pill and the other was called Pro-T-Vac, and each was covered under Medicare but when I went looking for help with a dental, hearing or sight problem, all I got was buy more insurance. You can get a hip replacement or a new liver when your 90 but when it comes to dental work, a hearing aid or glasses your just plain out of luck.

Hospital charges are at the root of high health costs. A hospital "Price List" (Charge Master List) is typically 5-6 times their cost. That's what people with insufficient or no insurance are charged. Insurance companies negotiate discounts based on size and how many they insure and typically only pay about 35 - 40% of what the uninsured are charged. The"Charge Master List" typically increases 7.5% automatically every October, regardless of inflation. That means their prices double every 10 years. They also cheat. After a month in a well-known hospital my daughter was charged $268,000. The first time I called the Billing Dept. they told me they could give me a 50% discount(meaning they only made 200% profit). Instead I went into the bill line by line, found much evidence of false charging, and they eventually offered to settle for $17,000. (read this article here and learn real facts about healthcare http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/jul/07/cover/) A sister hospital was fined $6.2 million for defrauding Medicare! And look how HCA, largest healthcare company in the US, has been stealing taxpayer $$s. So let's get them to clean up their act, and hand out some jail time, instead of fines.

Over 200 thousand people each year die from adverse drug reactions but the cases are probably higher due to a lack of reporting. My daughter Julie developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome at the age of 11 months old from a medication to treat pediatric epilepsy. We were not warned about side effects. After starting the medication she developed a high fever and blistering rash. Julie was misdiagnosed with chicken pox and continued on the offending drug. As a result she suffered blistering burns across her body and treated in a burn unit for 27 days. She is now blind in one eye and has low vision in the other, dry eye syndrome, photophobia and many other side effects, and she is one of the lucky ones. Many SJS patients do not survive. We were told it was a 1 in a million reaction and so rare we would never meet another SJS patient. Since 1994 we have heard from thousands of people from around the world that have suffered SJS and TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis) another form of SJS. It's not as rare as we were led to believe. SJS can be caused by over the counter children's ibuprofen! Something available to us at the grocery story and carries no warning of SJS! SJS is a severe adverse life threatening reaction to medication which causes patients to literally burn from the inside out! No one has an accurate count of SJS because there is NO mandatory reporting system required by medical professionals. Only a voluntary site for patients. A mandatory reporting system will enable the FDA to see which medications have a higher incidence of adverse reactions leading to labeling changes and safety for consumers. Please help us.

Ending the illegal nature of the cannabis plant.

Amend the U.S. constitution to require the U.S. government to provide free universal health care to every legal resident of this country.