Health Insurance Corporations are charging more and providing less to the insured. Each year people are noticing the loss of benefits, more restrictions, less medication coverage and "drive through" surgeries. Why accept this? Most people, especially the elderly are being held hostage by Health Insurance monopolies. We need to challenge them and investigate them!!

Our overweight youth population is huge. President Obama has the chance to add a 5-minute desk training to his day that K-12 youth can emulate, to promote healthy mind, balanced heart and stress-free, strong body. Just as President John F. Kennedy lead the fitness trend by example and not decree, when President Obama gets involved, many youth will follow. We want this for our children and for the health of our nation.

I am writing to ask for your support to revise Malpractice Statue Chapter 766. This law does not help protect your constituents, because it does not hold bad doctors and other health workers accountable. This law also does not give family members a peace of mind nor justice if the decease person is an adult that is not married and does not have a child under the age of 26. I'm writing on behalf of my deceased mother, Christine Wright Thomas. On Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 6:37am, my siblings and I watched my mother lose her life in front of our eyes at her bedside. This was such a shock to her friends and family because her primary care physician Dr. Monica Walker and Columbia Hospital diagnosed her with a stomach virus and two days later she was dead. My mother did all she could have done to seek medical professional help. The medical system failed my mother and now she is dead because she did not receive the proper care and diagnosis. If we cannot get help from our doctors, where are we supposed to seek proper medical treatment? No one should have to suffer this long when they pursued medical help several times.

California has been supporting the use of medical marijuana facilities, and has been coming closer to a limited legalization for the public use. The federal government, with limited support from President Obama, has been going to extremes in order to eliminate the medical marijuana dispensaries. Obama has the power to make alrterations in the system to at least save the large legal market of dispensaries, and protect our state in the separation of powers.

This petition is about providing dental care to children, Mothers & Fathers, and honored citizens.Lack of dental care results in death as well as shame, and pain especially in women, especially in our culture with its emphasis on beauty. This petition is about giving generous funding to dental schools.

Medical insurance brokers should be shut down. They are taking all the money from doctors and people like me who try to stay well, yet pay exorbitant monthly fees just in case something bad might happen. If everyone stopped paying for their policies, the brokers would go broke. That's the first step towards affordable medical care.

**The report from National Senior Citizens Law Center, (May, 2012) citing the CA Department of Health Care Services' own quality assessment, shows seven plans earned a rating of 1 (poor) out of 5 stars in overall Medi-Cal performance.

The hospital's administration has created, and presides over, a culture of corruption. To feed their egocentric narcissism and keep receiving their exhorbitant salaries, they continue to manipulate a weak, co-opted board. Over the last 6 years, the board has voted unanimously 99.5% of the time for everything the self-serving administration has proposed. The new hospital decision was reached in secret meetings to avoid a vote or public input. A new hospital would be only nine (9) miles from Swedish/Issaquah and cost $38.5 million, or $101.4 million with the lease-purchase scheme. This is beyond stupid and wastes scarce health care dollars, including Medicare & Medicaid.

Governor Paul LePage and the Republicans in the Maine State Legislature have decided they will pass a budget cutting key health and social welfare programs for the most vulnerable members of Maine society without input from the Democratic members of the Legislature. The Maine Democrats feel they have no alternative but to capitulate because Republicans have the majority and "Democrats don't fight." This petition would be sent to all of Move On Maine stakeholders to urge the Democrats in the state legislature to boycott the vote on the Maine House floor.

It is my understanding that partial Medicare drug coverage will end after 36 mos. following a organ transplant. These drugs are vital for life for all transplant patients and the idea that the inability to pay for these expensive drugs can result in organ rejection is appalling! Something must be done about this. For instance, it is 4 times more expensive for a patient to be on dialysis than for the continued coverage of these necessary drugs!

Help me by joining and sign this petition to the Massachussetts government officials and fight for the labeling of our GE or GMO foods. We have the right to choose what we eat and feed our families.

Workers at the American Red Cross located in both Michigan and Ohio are being forced to strike over rising concerns about understaffing and cuts in health care benefits, despite $2 billion in revenue from blood donations. Long shifts with short staff and high pressure resulted in over $30 million in FDA fines in recent years. Without a voice at the table, issues regarding blood safety will only get worse. We are calling on Gail McGovern, Executive Director of the American Red Cross, who gets paid over $1 million per year, to stop the agenda to cut the employees out of the collective bargaining process.