In spite of rulings by the U.S. District Court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is intent on denying benefits to the same sex partners of state employees. The Governor claims this is an effort to save the state money, but this makes little sense. The passage of SB1070 cost Arizona over $3 million in legal fees and at least $141 million dollars in lost tourism revenue. If Governor Brewer continues this fight, we can expect similar losses, far more damaging to our state budget than the $1.8 million it currently costs to extend benefits to the same sex partners of state employees. This is not about money. It is yet another instance of Arizona lawmakers promoting bigotry and a conservative "state's rights" agenda at the expense of the citizens they are sworn to serve. Governor Brewer, respect the dignity of Arizona's citizens and drop this legal fight. It is the right thing to do morally and the right thing to do fiscally.

I was diagnosed with Brain Cancer one year ago today. There are 60 thousand more that were diagnosed in that same time period. It is very scary for those that are newly diagnosed and navigating the health care system as well insurance can be very daunting and intimidating. No one knows what causes Brain Cancer and you don't usually feel symptoms until it's in a late stage. Recently, Congressman David Dreier (CA-26) made a comment in a health care reform hearing where he used "someone diagnosed with a massive tumor" as an example of someone that would potentially abuse a "high risk pool" system. In spite of the context in which he made the comments. It came off as very flippant and many of us in the Brain Cancer community have been saddened and appalled by it. All we're asking is for Rep. David Dreier to give a public apology regarding the comments.

Rick Perry is refusing 1) federal dollars to expand Medicaid 2) healthcare exchange program. He told the nation of Fox News watchers but not on Texas' local news. Texas is 51st in the nation of people without heathcare coverage. Perry refusals are costing lives. People's lives should come first.

Health Care too expensive.

Protect Doctor's FREEDOM to practice any kind of healing modality that doctor and patient contract to do. Rid the AMA of its power to manipulate healing protocols limiting medicine to toxic potions of drug companies that do more harm than good. Give doctors freedom to practice the safe and natural cures without AMA intervention, persecution or removal of medical licence. Background for need to Doctors to be free can be found at www.drcarley.com This will give health care a FREE MARKET forcing insurance to pay for the natural and safe cures and not limiting patient and doctor choices.

I retired from the State of Illinois SURS pension system November 1, 2010, basing my benefits on a specific monetary amount, including the benefit of no-cost health insurance. On June 27, 2012, Governor Quinn signed HB1313, taking effect July 1, 2012, requiring some 78,000 state retirees to pay a portion of the premiums which Public Act 90-0065 of the 90th General Assembly states will be provided by the State of Illinois.

Health insurance too expensive for self employed people. I have successful grown children that are self employed, but can't afford health insurance because its cost over $1,000 a month!!

To have Governor Scott change his position and accept the funding provided by the Affordable Care Act

The people (congressmen) against "Obamacare" should pledge to refuse their government health insurance along with their vote to repeal "Obamacare" . It is too easy for the well covered to deny health insurance for the poor when they are taking advantage of a benefit for themselves. When my husband almost died from an infection we found ourselves bombarded with bills not knowing if we would be reimbursed by our insurance, he was but it took months - In our little town of western NY, almost every supermarket has jars on the counters collecting funds to help someone pay for their serious medical bills or organizing spaghetti dinners in the fire hall to pay for medical bills for someone. Would a congressman like to depend on spaghetti dinners to pay for their medical bills ?

To date, the House has voted 30 times to defund, dismantle and repeal the Affordable Care Act. Some polls have shown that This poll after the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a majority of Americans (56 percent) now say they would like to see the law’s detractors stop their efforts to block its implementation and move on to other national problems. If the economy and jobs are important to Americans why is it that Congress is still wasting time on the ACA after the law has been deemed constitutional? So I am asking Americans to stand up to political bullies and tell members of Congress to stop wasting tax payer money and time on a bill that is constitutional.

Governor Perry is refusing to allow Healthcare exchanges,And Medicare and Medicaid stimulus in Texas.P.s where is the the other$100,000.00 you didn't send back from the stimulus

Elected government officials should be made to purchase health care on the open market like they think self employed Americans should. Whether you are in favor of the health care bill passed by congress or not, certainly temporary government servants do not deserve to get better health care than most working Americans who must pay their bills..