BACKGROUND: Reflexologists in Texas, and national and state associations, have been active for over three decades to separate the Reflexology profession from massage. 33 U.S. states exempt Reflexology from the massage law and many countries worldwide recognize the difference between the two. Reflexology has 5 state laws of its own, and the National Institute of Health lists Reflexology as a separate discipline. In Texas, there is no reason why this separation should not be formally recognized NOW. You can assist this endeavor by signing this petition in support of Reflexology in Texas - whether you are a client or practitioner. You can also sign the petition if you do not live in Texas or the USA - the more voices heard, the better. Please share far and wide. Reflexology as a stand-alone profession is in the best interest of us all. THANK YOU!

We need Single Payer. But Gretchen Whitmer has appointed to her transition team the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Dan Loepp. She has deep ties to BCBS. So we need to let Whitmer know right now that we need Single Payer.

Let's keep this going. Really share it up on Facebook and twitter. I will be sending this to the president with some other info. If nothing else he does read the petitions that come to him. At least he will hear the other side. Up to this point the president has had to go on the STATICS from the CDC. Let us info him about the other side. As pain sufferers, DOCTORS, caregivers and more, do your part to help us change the minds of those who are not first hand witnesses to the pain we face and the loss of lives due to the lack of treatment. Thank you. If you don't want to sign at least read what the AMA house of delegates have said. Finally siding with us. As chronic pain sufferers, we have had no voice even before the CDC guidelines. We have been ignored and abused. We have not been given the chance to tell our stories, the truth. Doctors are afraid to treat us and pharmacies turn us away. We have become the casualties of the war on drugs. We are asking that President Trump gives this petition direct attention and takes it seriously. We are good citizens of the United States of America and wish to live productive lives in this great nation. Update: 11/16/18 https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/default/files/media-browser/public/hod/i18-refcomm-b-annotated.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0fZa0zzrZmDHLNb-7iYh-f-vbqqN43P2VXsNGYbP6w5mdXY4hflbdAQWE Two and a half years after the release of the CDC’s opioid prescribing guideline, the American Medical Association has finally taken a stand against the “misapplication” and “inappropriate use” of the guideline by insurers, pharmacists, federal regulators and state governments. At its interim meeting in Maryland this week, the AMA House of Delegates adopted a series of resolutions that call for restraint in implementing the CDC guideline – particularly as it applies to the agency’s maximum recommend dose of 90mg MME (morphine equivalent units). RESOLVED that our AMA affirms that some patients with acute or chronic pain can benefit from taking opioids at greater dosages than recommended by the CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for chronic pain and that such care may be medically necessary and appropriate. RESOLVED that our AMA advocate against the misapplication of the CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids by pharmacists, health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, legislatures, and governmental and private regulatory bodies in ways that prevent or limit access to opioid analgesia. RESOLVED that our AMA advocate that no entity should use MME thresholds as anything more than guidance, and physicians should not be subject to professional discipline, loss of board certification, loss of clinical privileges, criminal prosecution, civil liability, or other penalties or practice limitations solely for prescribing opioids at a quantitative level above the MME thresholds found in the CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids. LET'S KEEP THIS GOING AND SEND IT TO THE PRESIDENT.

Suicide, Depression, PTSD, Anxiety, BI-Polar, Dementia, ADHD, ADD, Schizophrenia, Obsessive compulsive disorder, and Autism are all forms of mental illness. Mental illness is a clear disease that can not be seen.It touches all ages, race, sex, religion, weight, height, Educational status, and finical status. It effects millions each day as well as their loved ones. If you do not know any one with any of the above illnesses you are either blessed beyond belief or you need to pay more attention. But let’s be honest we all do and it’s time to start helping bring our loved ones back to life. Back to smiling. Back to helping our friends. I’m asking for you to help me,help them. My goal is to bring awareness and be a voice of those who need it most. All I am asking is for you to sign with me. Sign in the name of Jason and all those who took their lives. Let me fight for them. Let me fight for you. Time for change in our mental health system #CLEARNATION#mentalawearness#fightforthem My husband recently took his life after years of battling bipolar disorder and depression. The true life of mental illness affects every one In some way or another. Our government needs to step in and make some changes so the lost can be saved. I will walk on October 22, 2019, in my husband's name to the state capital so he and all who have died by suicide can be an example of our government's failure in mental health.

My petition is about restoring the right of direct care worker in the field of nursing homes and residential homes for people with disabilities by ensuring proper investigative means for case of allegations of abuse and neglect.Such investigative means should be objective not subjective in order to protect bith direct care worker's right and the residence dignity.For, in most cases, the housing agency uses the allegations against direct care worker or custodian to cover up an agency-based bad management or the inabilities of the agency to operate within the frame of their licensure.An issue of conflict of interest does exist for the agency.I and many coworker are victim of such practices and an investigative documentary interviewing of direct care workers anonymously-because of fear of losing their jobs- should validate these statements.Workers insurance in those agencies require a no fault accident _the likelyhood of which is impossible because the direct care worker duties designed by the housing agency leave no room for such things as no fault accident - for compensation of injured worker.The existing procedures and the vey low paying of direct care workers make it impossible for proper justice thereby allows housing agency to abuse of direct care worker 's right as a citizen in cases of abuse or neglect allegations.

I feel that the affordable care act will be gutted.

Threating my exhistance by taking my only means of survival Social Security.

There are millions in our country who survive every moment in excruciating pain. Their doctors are taking their only source of treatment, their opioid medications. Cannabis has been a medicinal plant for centuries, and is only made illegal because of lack of profit to the big pharma companies. Every man and woman deserve the right to treat their pain the way they see fit. Cannabis should have never been made illegal. Legalize medical cannabis.

Our contributions to Social Security and Medicaid are being mislabeled as entitlements.

Ending ducey's strangle hold on medical ins..and medical decisions..I have arthritis everywhere even in my spinal column..I have been judged a person who needs more morphine than 90mg when doc lowered my dosage I became completely unstable now I have to have assistance to do everything but ducey refuses to look at people like me to give us what we need to function..all he cares about is walking the Trump line..he's got to go..

I am a Rare disease Advocate. I personally have 3 chronically ill diseases, Sarcoidosis, Sjogren's Syndrome, and Parkinson's. I am on disability now. I have been downgraded from chronic to terminally ill. With the Tax bill and the Healthcare bill they are killing million like myself! Cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security then trying to pass a Healthcare Bill that would make it impossible for those with pre-existing conditions to get health care is absurd and deadly!

Pres. Trump, the billionaire Koch bros. & Republican leaders are PRIVATIZING THE VA to help their friends make billions of dollars off sick vets. Today more than 40% of all VA outpatient appointments are completed in the private sector. Trump and friends propose to send all vets to private healthcare, close the 1,100 VA hospitals & clinics and sell off all the land to developers and private hospital corporations. They must be STOPPED! In survey after survey veterans say they want the VA FIXED Not PRIVATIZED. In a Vets for Foreign Wars survey 92% of the vets who use the VA for healthcare said THEY WANT THE VA FIXED. The want to go to their highly qualified VA doctors & nurses not be lost in the private sector shuffled from clinic to clinic.