Medicare Should Include Dental Care Whether or not you're a senior citizen, hopefully, you will be someday. When that happens, you're going to want complete health care. One of the most important, and least covered healthcare costs for seniors is dental care. And yet, dental care is not included in most post-retirement insurance plans, including Medicare. In other plans, it's a very expensive option. Medical research has linked poor dental health to the most serious health hazards including Heart Disease, Diabetes, and many other age-related diseases, including a weakened immune system, which gives rise to Pneumonia, Influenza and other infectious conditions. Improved dental care could help reduce and delay the onset of these serious diseases in this vulnerable segment of our society. If we could reduce the incidence of these diseases, we could significantly reduce illness, reduce the case load on our medical and hospital systems, and promote better, more efficient health care for yourself and your family. Providing dental benefits will improve the overall health of seniors. It will also result in a healthier Medicare and medical insurance system. Sooner or later, that will benefit everyone.

The Cancer Drug Coverage Parity Act Outdated Medicare Plan B coverage policies Traditionally, IV chemotherapy treatments are covered under a Medicare Plan B plan benefit. Conversely, oral anticancer medications are covered under Medicare's plan D prescription benefit and retired cancer patients are responsible for extremely high and unmanageable copays, creating an enormous barrier for patients to access orally administered drugs and lifesaving treatments for cancer patients Medicare plan B should provide coverage for orally administered cancer treatment medications at the same rate as IV or injectable cancer treatment. A patient, especially a disabled or retired patient, should not be made to pay any more out of pocket for their oral cancer medications then they are asked to pay for their injectable or infusional cancer medications. A national oral chemotherapy access law is important, because it would offer protection to all insured patients, including those with Medicare coverage who comprise a large portion of patients with cancer. Right now, the state laws only apply to privately insured patients. If a federal law was passed it would apply equally to everyone. The current Medicare Plan B covers IV chemotherapy, but oral chemotherapy isn't covered. As a result, people are out of pocket double and triple their SS income and still unable to afford the oral chemotherapy medications they so desperately need. We do not need the plan D with high level tiers, which are still unaffordable, to fill this gap, but rather the federal backing and passing of a chemotherapy oral drug parity law that would include compliance by Medicare plan B. Chemotherapy oral drugs should be covered under Medicare plan B for the wellbeing of every American. Currently, state laws can only impact certain health plans and do not apply to Medicare or Medicaid. Health plans covered under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) While orally administered anti-cancer drugs are not without side effects, equal access to these drugs can alleviate suffering and improve outcomes for many cancer patients. Oral Parity increases access to oral chemotherapies, helping patients and saving lives. Provides greater access to life-saving treatments: Drug coverage is one of the top problems for cancer patients. The disparity in coverage between intravenous/injectable treatments and orally administered anti-cancer pills further complicates this problem. Cancer patients should not have to wage a fight on coverage for a treatment.

The idea that individual orthodontists are being attacked by well funded corporations in an attempt to gain market share for their product is repulsive. Individual orthodontists are easy targets but when the specialty acts as a group we can defend every individual from this kind of abuse. It's time to let AcceleDent know that we will not tolerate this kind of behavior.

SAMHSA initially rejected EEG Biofeedback because brain waves are not behavior, but is now considering reversing this decision. Acceptance on the official list (NREPP) plus the research would mean EEG biofeedback is our most effective tool to treat addictions of all kinds.

We are petitioning to support the bill "an Act affirming a terminally ill patients right to compassionate aid in dying". The purpose of this bill is to support those who choose to pass away before they're terminal illness progresses further with the assistants of their physician(s). We ask for your support in our mission and ask you to join in the actions we are taking if you believe in our movement.

On September 14th Cook County commissioners unanimously passed an ordinance to establish a direct access program for cook county. The program will expand health care access to 40,000 Cook County residents. This is a huge health care victory!

When I partnered with MoveOn, Bernie Sanders, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and other progressive allies on a new Senate resolution calling for a public health insurance option, national headlines in Forbes, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere made it clear: the public option is back on the table. And when the resolution ballooned to 33 Senate cosponsors in less than 48 hours, the insurance lobby told their allies to attack us—and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor right away to do it. With the public option, progressives are going on the offense. We are changing the 2016 election debate and we're inspiring voters. We can't back down. We must keep playing offense. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama endorse a public option. Now, with Senate allies and partner organizations, we're pushing the entire Democratic Party to make this a central 2016 issue.

My daughter has been on the street since she was 14. She is now 28, We have tried to get her into rehab and we were close one time. Her pimp showed up (crossing state lines) bearing a gun. They have both been arrested, with over 17 counts of prostitution and soliciting, all to no avail All charges were dropped. My daughter was found naked wrapped around a telephone pole one time, also. They pumped her stomach and sent her on her way. There are over 129 overdoses a day. Please help me help those who are out there and out of control. This is our problem, not just mine.

In 2015, there were 10,817 new cases of confirmed Lyme Disease reported in Pennsylvania, ranking Pennsylvania the highest in the nation in confirmed cases for the last five years. In 2015, the Department of Environmental Protection published a study that confirmed a high risk of Lyme disease in every county of the Commonwealth. Up to 40% of Lyme Disease patients may go on to suffer from a complex, chronic/persistent disease. Yet they are being denied access to, and insurance coverage for, diagnostics and treatments, leaving thousands of Pennsylvanians with no choice but to bear the financial burden of treatment out-of-pocket. Many Pennsylvanians are left suffering, untreated, and/or in financial ruin. We are facing a serious epidemic and need to provide Pennsylvanians access to diagnostics and treatment of complex/chronic Lyme Disease.

Lt. Ryan Elwood was a young first responder, happy, full of life, and with a bright future. A series of personal events, as well as a particularly disturbing trauma call, lead him to end his life on September 8th, 2015. Suicide rates among firefighters and first responders are alarmingly higher than other professions and the training that they receive does not prepare them for the emotional toll it will take on them. Furthermore, the stigma and silence that surrounds emotional well-being in the fire service discourage those first responders and firefighters to admit or seek the help needed to keep them well. Critical Incident Stress Management needs to be included in fire service training and as an overarching theme in all fire service training categories.

I have seen countless people in the midst of a diabetic emergency including my grandmother, my boyfriend, and patrons at the pool that I work. I think it is asinine that some people are forking out the equivalent of a mortgage for medicine that the rest of us produce naturally. Why are they being punished for something they have no control over?

Insulin is a vital life-saving drug, necessary for the SURVIVAL of insulin dependent diabetics. Diabetes profoundly alters the life not only of the person with the condition, but their entire FAMILIES. In terms of our communities, we are looking at the face of a public health DISASTER.