Why should someone who has no health insurance be billed at retail rates that are two, three or more times higher that Insurance companies or Medicare pay these providers. It is my belief that the reason that Insurance has become so essential is that it is the only way that individual can protect themselves from being gouged by medical providers.

IT'S NOT BIODEGRADABLE, IT'S NOT COMPOSTABLE AND LASTS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. THE CHEMICALS USED TO MANUFACTURE THE FOAM PRODUCTS ARE HARMFUL TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND DANGEROUS TO CONSUMERS. A TYPICAL FOAM CONTAINER LEACHES STYRENE WHEN IT'S IN CONTACT WITH HEAT, FATS, GREASE OR ACIDS.

Since they want to cut Medicare & Medicare I think we need to stop paying for their Healthcare, it seems only fair that they pay, afterall they have lifetime medicare insurance. What do you guys think, also think about how much money can be saved if they start to pay their way.

We call on our US Senators to draft legislation that will protect teens from abuse in residential programs. Now that H.R. 911 – Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2009 has passed the US house during the 111th session (2009-2010), we need similar legislation to be passed by the US Senate.

Drop the enrollment age for medicare to zero.

My 34 year old wife, Rachel, an American who once danced with the Royal Ballet, is accepted for a surgery to re-grow her collapsing airways using her own stem cells. But the FDA and NIH have used regulatory issues to impede our progress to get this done. Ask our Senators to tell FDA & NIH to Keep Politics Out Of Necessary Health Care! (http://HelpRachelBreathe.com)

Our health care system is failing the elderly and those with severe chronic illness. Way too often, human beings in a vegetative state without any hope of recovery are kept alive and repeatedly tortured with multiple unnecessary hospital visits, feeding tubes, rectal tubes, bladder catheters, tracheostomy and chronic ventilator dependency. As an emergency physician for the past 15 years, I observe this immoral treatment of the elderly and disabled every day. And the financial burden to our health care system is staggering. We need a better way to honor our elderly and allow them to die with dignity.

Cooley Dickinson Hospital (a nonprofit) in Northampton, MA is in merger/acquisition talks with Mass General, Baystate Health (both nonprofits), and Vanguard Health Systems. Vanguard is a profit-driven corporation that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VHS.

I am trying to show that legalized drugs in this country can be more dangerous than over-the-counter remedies.

President Obama has appointed former Monsanto VP and lobbyist Michael Taylor to become senior advisor to the FDA's commissioner. This unthinkable linkage between food safety and corporate interests that have little regard for the public health must be stopped. This example of a "fox watching the henhouse" is inexcusable. President Obama must reverse this unimaginably dangerous policy and isolate the FDA from corporate influence.

We could have single payer health care in our country. Every person with a social security number could be billed one dollar for each year of your age, me I'm 59 so I would pay that every month instead of the $127 that I pay plus the five thousand or so that my employer pays each year. It would be less expensive for medicare people as they pay right around a $100 a month.

The Medicare In Home Rule refuses wheelchairs or home chore assistance for people with degenerative neuromuscular disabilities until they have become completely paralyzed. It also refuses to provide wheelchairs if people leave their homes, except for doctor visits. This not only creates painful isolation, it costs taxpayers more because without household help and access to exercise and and social opportunities - both of which help alleviate pain - medical conditions worsen and nursing homes may become the only option. Many negative things result at that point, but included among them are: 1. More money spent by Medicare for conditions that could be avoided; 2. More taxes paid at the state level, because when people run out of money Medicaid becomes the primary payor.