My 20 year old Son Michael David Israel took his life after becoming addicted to prescription pain medication as prescriped to him by his physicians for Crohn's Disease. His physicians never advised him as to the danger and addictive nature of the pills. Visit our FaceBook Page: Save the Michaels of the World.

"Coal-mining areas are characterized by greater socioeconomic disadvantage, riskier health behaviors, and environmental degradation that are associated with reduced [Health Related Quality of Life]." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20597455

Contingent upon the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, this petition would call for a national referendum on the repeal of health and other benefits for federal legislators (congressmen and senators) and the federal judiciary (all federal judges including Supreme Court justices. Among other effects, this initiative would require that all legislators and judges purchase health insurance on the significantly more expensive individual insurance market if they choose to remain insured.

Healthcare for everyone in the USA.

Anyone that is self employed or just can't afford insurance should be able in my opinion to pay into medicare and be covered by it.

Americans care about what's in their food. It is important to know cuz of allergy. We all have a right to know whether our food has been genetically engineered so we can make informed decisions about what we eat or feed our families. In fact, against the backdrop of a deeply divided nation, polls show that more than 92 percent of Americans agree on labeling GMOs.

As a patient of a rare genetic cancer disease I am completely fed up with the system for people who need medicine. I can not get any controlled substances for pain since my surgeon was in one state (only 2 people in the US do the type of surgery I had for colon removal/cancer). I had severe problems where the dose of pain meds I was sent home were not enough. My local doctor could not or would not give me a prescribed for a new pain med and not one pain management center would help me. This needs to stop. If a patient has surgery in a state and needs medicine this should NOT be an issue. Plenty of us suffer due to someone else breaking the system. America needs to take better care of it's citizens. The law that went into place to prevent meds being prescribed over the state line needs to be removed immediately. Even when traveling if you lose a prescription you can't have access to it at the local pharmacy, you are flat out declined. For example, my mother came to visit me and on the trip over her meds were damaged, she went to Walgreens to try to fill it again and they said she had to go back to Florida. This is a drug she used daily, totally uncalled for. This country is going back in time, not progressing at all. Things must change and this is my start!

Small children should not be hungery just because their parents can not provide enough food for them.

Ensuring VA clinic know how to apply for service dogs

Our younger generation has been assaulted by the Afghanistan War, which is creating an onslaught of heroin addicted veterans that end up in jail committing suicide! We need to protect our young people from the onslaught of this drug proliferation of this very addictive drug, heroin! Drug addicted youth need to be treated medically to help save their lives, not by incarceration!

for 50 years the CUBAN PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED! needlessly because of this draconian,inhumane measure.'

Due to cuts in Medicaid, Guildcare in Yonkers, New York has lost a vital music program which enabled seniors with blindness and dementia to sing in a special choir. The inspirational Guildcare Choir was able to remember every word despite dementia and Alzheimer's. We're calling on Congress to stand for the poor and blind with no political clout and restore Medicaid funding to Guildcare in Yonkers NY.