This is a petition to uphold obamacare and show Rick Scott that we want this law in effect in our state.

Despite the recent Supreme Court ruling, Governor Bobby Jindal still refuses to implement the Affordable Care Act in Louisiana. This has been deemed the law of the land, but it appears that Gov. Jindal would prefer many people in his state to remain without necessary health care, rather than damage his political chances. My husband and I were nearly bankrupted because of my husband's recent heart attack. We need Obamacare in Louisiana, and we need it NOW.

Republicans are distorting the facts regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The absolute truth is that every American deserves access to affordable, quality health coverage, and currently 18% of Alaskans have no insurance, and many more are underinsured. For both of these demographics, one accident or illness could result in financial catastrophe. Obamacare includes the largest middle-class tax cut for health care in history. According to the independent Congressional Budget Office, 19 million people will receive tax credits worth an average of about $4,800 each to help them afford health care. These tax credits will finally put health insurance within reach for millions of American families. Around 1 percent of people—those who can afford to buy coverage but instead choose to opt out, shifting their costs to the rest of us—will pay a penalty. The Supreme Court acknowledged yesterday that this penalty will be charged through the tax code—but that doesn’t change its purpose of ensuring everyone who can afford insurance buys it, or its effect of lowering costs for everyone. Before Obamacare, insurance companies had free rein to arbitrarily cap and cancel coverage, and they could waste our premiums on overheads and big bonuses for CEOs. With Obamacare, there will now be clear rules of the road to give patients and doctors more control over health care. These rules will make sure that you and your doctor—not your insurance company, and certainly not a Washington bureaucrat—have control over your health. If you like the insurance you have, you can keep it. The only thing that’s changed is that your coverage is stronger. Here’s how: • If you had a lifetime limit (and about 60 percent of employer-based plans did), it’s been lifted. • If you have a child under the age of 26, they can stay on your plan. • Insurance companies can no longer discriminate against children with pre-existing conditions. • Starting in 2014, insurance companies will no longer be able to deny anyone insurance based on pre-existing conditions, helping up to 129 million Americans get the care they need. • Insurance companies will no longer be able to charge women more than men for the exact same coverage. • 54 million Americans already have access to better preventive services, free of charge. • If you get sick, your insurance company can’t drop your coverage, and if they deny you a treatment, the law makes sure you have a chance to appeal. Health care costs have been going up for decades—that’s one of the reasons President Obama fought to pass the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare makes targeted changes to hold costs down. The President started by taking on the insurance companies. As he said yesterday, the law ensures that insurance companies spend 80 percent of your premium dollars on your health care, not administrative costs or CEO bonuses. If they don’t follow that rule, they have to send you a rebate. This month, more than 12 million Americans will receive over $1 billion in rebate checks, and we’re all seeing lower premiums because of it. The law also takes on waste in our health care system. Let’s take just one example: We spend billions of dollars every year treating people for infections they get while they are in the hospital. The health care law helps hospitals take simple but necessary steps to prevent infections. These types of reforms will save up to $35 billion and 60,000 lives. Learn the truth about The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, then demand Governor Parnell implements it for Alaska.

Getting the governor to commit to implementing the Affordable Care Act in a timely and responsible manner.

It time to say enough is enough to those Radical congress members who are spending their whole three years fighting to take away health care benefits from Middle class American Its about time we stand up against these radicals who's main objective is to deny us the opportunity to have health insurance for our families, but they are enjoying the best health care system in world with their families. We the tax payer deserve the right to enjoy the American dream.

Our Congressional Representatives choose their healthcare plans from a menu of "gold standard" health insurance plans. Let's demand that our elected US Congressional Representatives choose from the same plans available to their constituents. For example, my 26 year old daughter who lives in Utah in not eligible for insurance because she was born with a congenital anomaly. If a Congressional Representative from Utah has a congenital anomaly, should that representative have insurance that is not available to their constituent?

Right to life is impossible if a person does not have reasonable, affordable access to medical care. Without quality health care insurance, this access is grossly limited at best. Years of health and financial problems have left many in this nation either prematurely deceased, unnecessarily ill, and/or financially ruined. Wisconsin has already lost valuable time due to the Governor's refusal to follow the recommendations/requirements of the Affordable Health Care Act and he is still refusing to do so. How many more will die, become unnecessarily ill, and financially ruined while this delay continues? For those people, should the legal system allow recourse?

The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, and now has been upheld by a ruling from the United States Supreme Court. Why, then, are South Carolina officials like Governor Nikki Haley, Attorney General Alan Wilson, and their cohort of state Republican leaders still trying to stall implementation of the Affordable Care Act?

An estimated 13% of the adults under 65 in Wisconsin reported not seeking health care because of the cost in 2010. The percentage of adults under 65 who reported not seeking health care because of the cost in 2010 works out to an estimated 448,000 people in Wisconsin. The decline in access is not surprising, given the increase in the rising cost of health insurance and the decline in employers providing health benefits. http://www.jsonline.com/business/access-to-health-care-declines-in-wisconsin-nationwide-8h5agns-150534135.html

Putting ObamaCare in action is the right thing not only for those individuals who have a hard time attaining work but for those who have exhausted their insurance policies/benefits. For example, I sustained a head injury some years ago and have exhausted mine. Along with that, finding a job with benefits has been challenging. I can understand people's oppostion to this bill because illegal immigrants also benefit from it, but what about those who are discriminated against for something that was out of their control? Many people oppose this bill for absurd reasons, but they also fail to look at the positives this bill could also bring.

Refusing to accept federal funds—free for three years and 90% free after that—to assist needy people in meeting their health care needs is plainly partisan nonsense. Sign this petition, and with enough people in Idaho behind it we may be able to convince the governor to do the right thing.

Governor and state representatives of government should NOT'deny citizens/voters/families help with Medicaid and refuse to be a part of the cooperative effort of the Congressional vote that passed the bill, the Executive signing of the bill, and the Supreme Court decision accepting this healthcare bill, denying the lawsuit against it which reached its court. Lives are at stake, humanity to man is at stake! Partisan politics are wrong when it comes to helping our citizens.