Ohio Department of Health refused TODAY to reconsider or even entertain a conversation about the 2017-2018 fiscal funding of the Ryan White part B funding. The State stands on their undefined and undefended decision to defund Ryan White Part B funding to the Aids Task Force of Greater Cleveland.

From our friends at HCAN: The Republican bill to gut the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid takes health coverage away from millions of Americans – from seniors to children – will force people to pay much, much more for, high-deductible insurance and blows a huge hole in state budgets, while giving massive tax cuts to the very wealthy and drug and insurance corporations. And it defunds Planned Parenthood. Key Points: · The Republican bill guts the Affordable Care Act and slashes Medicaid. · The Republican bill takes coverage away from millions of Americans by drastically cutting tax credits to buy coverage and by making enormous cuts in state funding for Medicaid. · The Republican bill will hike the cost of health insurance for millions of Americans, with the biggest increases for seniors and moderate-income working people. · The Republican bill hike premiums by 30% for people with pre-existing conditions if for any reason – such as losing a job – they don’t have coverage for 63 days. · The Republican bill pushes people into high-deductible insurance plans and ends the ACA program that limits out-of-pocket costs to many working families. · The Republican bill ends Medicaid expansion and slashes state funding for the regular Medicaid program by radically changing the way Medicaid is funded. States will be forced to end coverage and eliminate health care services for seniors, people with disabilities, children and working families. · The Republican bill gives huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and to drug, insurance and medical-device companies – it even has a special tax break for health insurance CEOs. · The Republican plan defunds Planned Parenthood.

Congress wants to get rid of Obamacare but they can't decide what they will do to replace it. There is a simple solution: let them offer all of us the same health benefits that they, the members of congress get! if it is good enough for them, it should be good enough for us and it would eliminate a lot of bipartisan infighting.

Speaker Ryan changed the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) rules regarding how the CBO is allowed to evaluate the repeal of the ACA. Previous CBO reports estimated the federal deficit would explode if the ACA was repealed. House and Senate rules required sunset provisions on laws that impact the Federal deficit, and simple majorities can't repeal such laws. Americans need accurate, unbiased information regarding the cost and impact on the Federal deficit of the repeal of the ACA and how many people will be hurt. Ryan's rule changes have destroyed the independence of the CBO.

To help LPN's achieve their goal without getting taken advantage of by bogus online colleges.

I would like our politicians to be covered by whatever new version comes out of Congress. It only makes sense that they will be covered by a revised ACA rather than have private health coverage especially when the People of our great Country already pay for it through our taxes. When a member of Congress retires, they should be required to have ACA coverage for which they pay out of pocket. This would essentially give best coverage if they are required to participate upon leaving office.

The repealing of the Affordable Care Act is going to effect the coverage of millions of Floridians. The healthcare of Florida residents should be a priority and all residents should be afforded the same coverage by all insurance companies that provide health insurance to Florida residents. Floridians need health insurance that provides free preventative care and chronic disease management, coverage of preexisting conditions, free contraceptive and birth control, elimination of lifetime and annual coverage limits, coverage until age 26 under a parent policy, and lower cost of life depending medications.

I have been suffering with chronic Lyme Disease for over 7 years with no resolution or therapy to get better..I can no longer function as a member of society due to this illness..there are millions suffering from this pandemic and something needs to be done..people are dying daily due to this illness .

Health care is a human right, not a privilege!

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Senate have plans to cut Medicare and Medicaid and to repeal coverage for 20 million Americans who are covered by the Affordable Care Act. Even some Democrats are on record to make cuts to these vital public healthcare programs. Essentially, Republicans in Congress are telling working families, senior citizens, and the poor that tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires are more important than providing a health care safety net for our most vulnerable. But did you know that members of Congress get great taxpayer funded healthcare? In fact, they get one of the best health care plans in the world. It strikes us as the height of hypocrisy to be accepting government-provided, taxpayer-subsidized health insurance while denying seniors, the disabled, and the poor the basic coverage that the ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid provide. That’s why we’re circulating this petition demanding that members of Congress who vote to cut the ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid stop accepting taxpayer-subsidized health insurance for themselves. If they believe our most vulnerable citizens should buy insurance on the corporate, for-profit market, shouldn’t they do the same? Sign the petition. Tell Congress: If you don’t believe in publicly-funded health coverage, don’t accept it.

On 1/17/14, Madison Holleran took her own life in Philadelphia. She was 19 years old. Her suicide left a void in the hearts of so many people across the United States. The Madison Holleran Suicide Prevention Act in Virginia would allow us to keep Madison's legacy alive, and help other young adults from choosing suicide as a way of escaping the pressures of college expectations. My name is Grayson Moore, and I want to bring the Madison Holleran Suicide Prevention Act to the Commonwealth of Virginia. The original legislation was signed into law in New Jersey by Governor Chris Christie on August 1, 2016. After personally struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts during my time in college, I want to ensure that Virginia students are offered the best possible help and mental health resources through this legislation.

I, among thousands of others and their families who have personally been harmed by the Power Morcellator, are fighting for our lives. We and concerned citizens ask for your immediate attention on this health threat and direct support – so that 1) the "Guardians" are honored and H.R. 5404 becomes law, and 2)that you also oversee that Congress acts to dismantle FDA's dangerous 510K predicate legislation as the IOM researched and adamantly advised in 2009. Dear Mr. President Trump, I am writing to draw you attention to critical national health threat in the United States. In particular the medical surgical device known as the power morcellator, which for 23 years is devastating women’s lives across the United States, for which the Government Accountability Office recently criticized the FDA's lack of action. This disaster in women’s health has highlighted a critical safety deficit in FDA’s medical device regulatory framework. Specifically the 510K predicate legislation, that greenlights new "similar" medical devices through the FDA without any patient clinical trials or post-surveillance. 510K is still in use even after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) strongly advised it to be dismantled as the institute could not ensure device saftey. But I would also like to draw your attention that the power morcellator disaster has demonstrated that federal law does not require individual physicians to “self-report” adverse outcomes associated with the use of FDA approved medical device back to FDA. These critical professional failures have led to the premature or unnecessary loss of many unsuspecting American women’s lives. Mr. President, the power morcellator will most certainly not only be the example of a dangerous medical device harming American patients, undetectable by the safety counterpoints of the FDA’s “radar screen” because of 1) 510K predicate medical device greenlighting and 2) lax or absent safety and reporting requirements. On June 8, 2016 U.S. Congressional representatives Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Ryan Zinke (R-MT) introduced a bill in honor of the women fallen to disaster by power morcellators. This bill is named the Medical Device Guardians Act (H.R. 5404). H.R. 5404 seeks to codify a mandate of the AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics regarding physicians’ responsibility to self-report adverse outcomes associated with the use of medical devices (AMA Code of Ethics. Opinion 9.032) – this bill also serves to protect the reporting physician from malpractice liability, should he/she self-report an adverse outcome. Mr. President, H.R. 5404 is a fully non-partisan and totally bipartisan bill. It will very certainly save lives in the United States and abroad, because it will provide high fidelity danger signals to public health experts at FDA. But, as you well know, most proposed bills die in the House of Representatives. We are almost certain that unless you rise with us immediately with executive action and look at this public health threat in the medical device space, and at this simple and cogent legislative measure, H.R. 5404 will die too. We ask for your immediate attention on this health threat, and direct support – so that the Guardians are honored and H.R. 5404 becomes law and that you oversee that Congress acts to dismantle FDA's dangerous 510K predicate legislation as the IOM researched and adamently advised in 2009.