The intent of this petition is to remind Senators Risch and Crapo they represent not a party, not an ideology, not the wealthy, and not Trump. They represent the people of Idaho, the majority of whom opposed the bills they voted for that would have taken health care away from millions of people and wrecked protections for preexisting conditions.

Millions of lives and 1/6 of the American economy are dependent on healthcare. This issue should not be about political games. Everyone deserves the best chance at living a healthy life.

Senators Hatch and Lee voted for health care bills that if enacted would cause between 16 and 32 million Americans to lose health insurance coverage. According to the LA Times that will result in the deaths of 28,000 to 100,000 people per year. My Granddaughters would be covered by the Medicaid expansion if Utah had accepted it. We need elected representatives that are not callous.

Every member of my immediate family and most of my extended family as well as millions of others will be adversely affected if the health care repeal bill Senator Sullivan voted for were to become law. If Senator Sullivan really wants to improve the Affordable Care Act then he should stop blindly following the Republican leadership and help develop a realistic approach to improving health care that is feasible and benefits those who elected him.

Healthcare for people.

I could lose my coverage under Trumpcare, meaning treatment my daughter learning disability would decline in quality. I will not stand for this and will fight until I am blue in the face to make sure our SC residents are properly represented.

THIS IS MY STORY: I am a recently medically retired Family Nurse Practitioner with a near 30-year career working with my hometown's community and other tribal hospital organizations. Had I not worked with the indigenous populations of America I would have been serving the veterans or military. My work is for the underserved populations of our nation. The affordable and socially responsible healthcare debate has been breaking my heart for years. It is apparent to me that Americans cannot reach a consensus on this issue. Some of the very valid reasons are that we don’t want our choices limited and we don’t want the government deciding what healthcare provider we can see or how much we will be taxed for the Medicare for All type plan. Because my health insurance dropped me due to my lost employment, I had to seek out an alternative. I did an online search for low-cost clinics in the Tucson, AZ area and found one that is trying a membership or cooperative type business model to provide services to people like me. I compared what it has been costing me to have my healthcare needs addressed by a poorly run family clinic organization. My insurance copay was $20/visit to my primary care provider and for a specialist, it was $40/visit. My last visit to a specialist ended up costing me more because they wanted a chest x-ray that would cost me $1000 and I was attempting physical therapy at $50/visit for awhile too. The list of medical expenses goes on to include medication prices that were ridiculous for an uninsured person to try to meet. Enter my first visit to the membership driven clinic and my new medical home. I have received astoundingly better healthcare that is specific to my needs for much, much less than paying insurance or taxes. For my demographic, I pay $75/month for unlimited access to my provider. I can call, text, email and so on. My provider listened to my history and worked with me to come up with a plan that fit me as an individual. She respects my opinion as a nursing professional which is something I didn’t have at my previous clinic. She ordered the chest x-ray that ended up costing me only $35. My medications? Wholesale prices. I get the medications I need for pennies on the dollar. Now, imagine what we could do with this type of business plan across America and for more than a family practice clinic. As healthcare consumers, we should be using our power to drive the insurance companies and government out of our healthcare. In a nonprofit system, we would have more choices, more affordability, more mobility, better patient/provider interactions, beliefs preserving (for the pro-life/pro-choice populations) and more. There is so much more we could be doing for people using this valid system that has been under funded, under promoted and largely ignored. You can look at the information provided in this link from the Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Health Care and look through the resources for some good information. http://nonprofithealthcare.org/ You can also go to the discussion group I've created on Facebook to see what else I have found. https://www.facebook.com/groups/278503785960711/ The infrastructure exists. The laws need to change in order to bolster the systems and remove for profit industry from holding sway over our nation's health and economic and national security. This is what I want to discuss. This is something that is working for me and I want to share it with others so that we might find some decent leverage with the corporations and government. Thanks for reading! Karen McLane FNP-BC Retired

ACA for all, or ACA for none. It's that simple. While Congress is trying to strip taxpayers of Medicaid, it's only fair to strip them of their health care. We get ACA. They get ACA. We don't get affordable care. They don't deserve affordable care.

Members of Congress have the their own health care plan supplemented by taxpayers. Maybe if they and their families have to be on the same plan as their voters, they will think twice about their vote.

I don't believe that anyone can be sure how this would play out going forward. Will my Medicare be affected in the future? Both my county and state have set aside millions of dollars in their budgets to cover the cost of repeal of the ACA.

I pledge to work actively against the reelection of any legislator who votes to weaken health care in America. I will give money to opponents, or work on their election committee, or canvass for them, or phone bank for them, or send them donations, or hold fundraisers for them, or do whatever is in my power to make sure healthcare deniers are not reelected.

I receive my insurance coverage through Obamacare and we lost a deeply loved son to the opioid epidemic.