My granddaughter, age 10, has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. If this is eliminated, she will be unable to ever get health insurance.

Life before the ACA was a mess. I personally saw all of the following: 1. An insurance company placed riders on a coworker's pregnant wife who had a history of cancer. They refused to cover either her pregnancy or any form of future cancer. 2. My small business's insurer denied coverage to a "high-risk" employee: a young man with hypertension. 3. Without a reliable way to vet insurance companies, an employer unknowingly selected a fraudulent one. Two of us were left with massive medical debt despite paying our premiums faithfully. 4. A young, healthy friend chose to forgo insurance. She's still paying off her emergency appendectomy. 5. My brother had a stroke in his thirties, and had to delay surgery until he could get better insurance. I'm just one person, and I don't even work in the insurance industry, yet I saw all of that. Don't return us to those days. Don't repeal the ACA without a good replacement!

My younger sister Elizabeth was able to afford her health insurance with the Affordable Health Care Act. With my representative Martha McSally and with Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain voting for the measures to repeal the ACA , she would lose her health insurance. With this repeal, we are putting children, the elderly, and even our Veterans at risk of losing their vital health insurance. Please tell Congress that repealing the ACA is wrong.

I see those around me, and their children, with their lives at stake based on this decision by Congress.

Defending our country's social contract of a safety net for all Americans from an extremist Congress and Senate. Basic healthcare is a human right! Now this right is being ignored. Seems like profit -driven ideologies are hell bent on taking away our rights including to affordable healthcare.

Stop Action on the ACA! Voters are about to be harmed and put in peril from not thinking this out. All the people voting on this have full healthcare either way, so why not plan it out better so that disabled, elderly, and vets are not harmed even more? Devise a plan that protects the marginalized first, then dismantle the ACA if you must, but to just drop all 28 million people from it will cause undo hardship upon too many Americans. All people in office took an oath to protect the people of this nation; to just cut the ACA with no other plan available is not protecting the people.

How will I get affordable covered health insurance with breast cancer and my husband with diabetes and gout and my mother in-law at 102 get mcaid insurance for nursing home assistance ? Health care and social security should be a priority. These cuts should not be done

I live on the lands of the Ohlone People and believe they deserve Federal and State "Recognition" .

President-elect Donald Trump's first priority when he assumes office is to take away our healthcare. He plans to issue executive orders to repeal the Affordable Care Act as soon as January 20. The Affordable Care Act has made a huge difference in my life. My son was born with a rare congenital disorder which affected his heart, airways, and kidneys. He went into respiratory distress and the pediatric surgeons saved his life. He was in intensive care for quite a while, and in his first month of life of he racked up $100,000 in medical debt. If it weren't for the ACA, my family would have to declare bankruptcy. The ACA not only helped cover my son's medical bills, but it has provided us with no lifetime limits on his coverage, and he can't be denied health coverage because of his condition. There are many families and individuals out there like me who had a major medical event happen without warning. The ACA was there for us. Protecting the ACA is not an ideological thing for us. It's affects our real lives, and repealing it would put so many of us in a bad position. As your constituents, we urge you to please stand up and protect our healthcare.

Donald Trump has promised to strengthen Social Security. However, Rep. Sam Johnson (Rep-Texas) is proposing changes that decrease taxpayer benefits. Reject Mr. Johnson's plan and allow Donald Trump to keep his promise.

This petition is addressed to more than CA (includes Oregon, Washington and Nevada with Democrat governors and legislatures) because these states, despite Democrats in power, have been unwilling to pass Single Payer legislation that would solve all the problems in health care financing and access simply. By demanding a meeting of these leaders we provide a different approach to the Republican attack on ACA, one that is solution based to the probable removal of ACA. People should also write letters, letters to the editor and march on their State officials to make this same--eminently reasonable-- demand: that they meet jointly and discuss their options once access is again further restricted and costs continue to inflate.

PETITION STATEMENT In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice released a study (Saunders Report) that found the STANDARD and REQUIRED domestic violence training received by judges, lawyers, and evaluators does not adequately prepare them to handle abuse cases. Inadequately trained professionals tend to believe the myth that mothers frequently make false allegations. MOST contested custody cases are actually domestic abuse or child abuse cases in which abusers have been allowed to use the courts to regain control over their victims, and bankrupt the safe, primary care-giving, protective mother. PETITION BACKGROUND WE ARE PETITIONING FOR A STATEWIDE INVESTIGATION OF FAMILY COURT PRACTICES IN AN EFFORT TO STOP CONNECTICUT JUDGES FROM HARMING INNOCENT DEFENSELESS CHILDREN. Connecticut residents are being bled of our most valuable resource, the innocence of a child, and because of which, we are slowly losing our grip on the future of America. Since 1998, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has continued a lengthy investigation into adverse childhood experiences (ACE). ACE is one of the largest medical investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. They found that a child’s exposure to certain traumas, including domestic violence, child sexual abuse, or being separated from their primary caregiving parent, resulted in more illnesses and injuries to children in childhood through adulthood, i.e., social emotional and cognitive impairment; adoption of health-risk behaviors; disease, disability and social problems; and PREMATURE DEATH. This study demonstrates how a child’s exposure to these elements are a PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. Yet every year, an estimated 58,000 children are court ordered into custody or unsupervised visitation with a reported abuser. Additionally, current research estimates that false allegations of sexual abuse happens less that 2% of the time, yet 85% of those children are court ordered into shared or sole custody with the parent that is raping them. Inadequately trained professionals tend to believe the myth that mothers frequently make false allegations, contrary to current research. Therefore, in thinking they have the needed expertise, family court professionals don't listen to domestic violence or child abuse evidence, experts, and they don't include current scientific research. Mothers are being forced into bankruptcy and poverty trying to protect their children, and their children are being irreparably harmed. We now have the medical research through the CDC to declare domestic violence, child abuse, and being separated from a primary attachment parent a PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. And the U.S. Department of Justice's Saunders report states that the STANDARD and REQUIRED domestic violence training received by judges, lawyers, and evaluators does not adequately prepare them to handle abuse cases. WE ARE PETITIONING FOR A STATEWIDE INVESTIGATION OF FAMILY COURT PRACTICES IN AN EFFORT TO STOP CONNECTICUT JUDGES FROM HARMING INNOCENT DEFENSELESS CHILDREN. We would like to see you, our leaders, echo your constituents concerns, and ensure that the HEALTH AND SAFETY OF A CHILD WILL COME FIRST IN DIVORCE AND CUSTODY LITIGATION. We thank you in advance for your support.