Opioids claim the lives of 91 individuals every day. With nearly 60,000 overdose deaths in 2016, 60% of which were related to prescription opioids, it is clear that there is a major public health crisis in our country.

People are dying because of this "opioid crisis". But it's not what you think! The CRISIS is that legitimate pain patients are not getting the medications they need. This is because Opioids are being taken away from legitimate patients who truly need them! Only 1% of pain patients ever become addicted to their medications!

We are children's advocates deeply concerned about the political attacks on children, people with disabilities, low-income people, seniors and minorities. When Congress tried to dismantle the ACA, the American people stood up and put a stop to it. The Trump Administration must get the message. #ProtectOurCare

Greedy drug companies keep recklessly raising drug prices. We must have laws to stop this OUTRAGEOUS price gauging. Issue 2 is a law will save Ohio taxpayers $400 million dollars per year... right off the bat!! It will also serve to lower drug prices for more than 4 million Ohioans.

Chronic Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas that does not heal and gets worse over time leading to irreversible damage of the pancreas. Individuals with Chronic Pancreatitis can suffer from an acute attack of pancreatitis at any time. During an acute attack the enzymes created by the pancreas to digest food stays inside of the pancreas causing the organ to digest itself resulting in significant and often debilitating pain. Repeated episodes of acute and/or chronic inflammation can cause irreversible damage to the pancreas further progressing the disease and pain relief becomes less effective often times requiring invasive treatments, including pain pumps and surgery. Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis are facing an ever increasing threat to their quality of life as a result of the Opioid Epidemic with laws being enacted restricting and/or prohibiting access to narcotic pain medication. While the Opioid Epidemic must be addressed there needs to be a balance to ensure patients with serious conditions are protected and afforded access to narcotic pain medication they rely on to simply get through the day and to remain active participants in the workplace as well as to maintain quality of life.

There's a health care crises in this country. It seems like the medical system is about to collapse. I don't trust it; its corrupt inside and out.

From his first days in office, Trump has worked to sabotage the ACA. At the start of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order weakening the individual mandate that is central to functioning ACA marketplaces. Now that the Senate rejected his repeal plan, he is looking to punish the most vulnerable Americans by ending ACA cost-sharing subsidies. These subsidies are not, as the president likes to say, insurance bailouts. They provide vital assistance to people at or near the poverty level, allowing them to afford out-of-pocket costs like copays and deductibles. And the uncertainty about whether the subsidies are going to continue from month to month is clearly contributing to the destabilization of the insurance markets. This needs to end. People must understand that ending the subsidies would make health insurance unaffordable for millions of low-income Americans.

Medical bills that wind up in collections hurt your credit scores more than they should. That was the conclusion the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached after studying 5 million credit reports earlier this year. The federal regulator tracked how well credit scores predicted people's future creditworthiness after medical bills. The answer: Not that well. The C F P B says people with medical collections generally paid their other obligations on par with those whose credit scores were 10 points higher. And those who paid off their medical collections should have received scores 16 to 22 points higher on average. Remove the Medical Debt of Tens Of Millions of American Citizens and the country will flourish. With regard to wanting a change to OUR healthcare system, START HERE

My husband and I, and millions of other hard-working Americans, will once again be denied access to affordable healthcare due to pre-existing conditions and outrageous premiums if Congress allows the White House to stop ACA subsidy payments to insurance companies. Let's act now and remind our representatives that they work for us, and that their healthcare is paid for by our tax dollars. Denying us the same level of coverage is nothing short of a death sentence for millions of Americans. Tell them that you will remember their vote in 2018 and 2020 - if they want to keep their seats, they will do right by their constituents and stand up to the White House or lose their jobs!

Health care must be made a right for all. Just saying so will not make it so.

I'm speaking up against the genocide of people of the USA that depend on government paid health coverage. We the people of the USA, the very people government should protect.

My daughter works as a seasonal employee and when employed has access to employer provided health insurance. During the off-season she relies on the ACA marketplaces to obtain subsidized coverage. President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Service Price are working overtime to undermine health care for millions of lower income people. The President has threatened not to make the required ACA subsidy payments that allow low income individuals to obtain insurance through the marketplaces. Secretary Price is taking regulatory actions to minimize enforcement of the law. Combined these actions threaten the my daughter, the viability of the ACA, and the insurance industry as a whole. Stop President Trump and Secretary Price from taking actions to make the ACA fail.