Hold the CDC accountable for the destruction of evidence, lying to Congress, for the sake of saving face & lying to Congress. While our children babies, are dying, being maimed with horrified parents. And no one from the CDC has gone to jail yet.

As an Army combat veteran rated at 10% disability, I was declined any dental care for years. Due to repeated infections and hospital stays, I am relying on a GoFundme that my mother put together so I can get dentures. Dental care is not a luxury; neglect will kill veterans. It almost killed me. Please help others, it's too late for me.

On May 4, the Illinois Human Services Committee passed HB 5736 with bi-partisan support. The bill extends the expiration date of Illinois' All Kids program from July 1, 2016 to October 1, 2019. Without this extension, 41,000 low-income children would be without health insurance in Illinois. The Governor has committed to sign the bill should it reach his desk! We need to ensure that the Senate approves the bill. Thank you! Learn more about HC3 by liking us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthycommunitiescookcounty/

I am starting this petition in hopes to spread awareness about Sickle Cell and how it is underfunded. Sickle Cell deserves more attention and I feel that a petition has a wide outreach, gaining awareness and starting a conversation for change is my ultimate goal. Some of the symptoms for Sickle Cell are pain in the limbs, strokes, excessive fatigue, and a weakened immune system. All of those symptoms cause for the life expectancy for a person with Sickle Cell to be under 50 years old. Some people are still simply unaware that they carry the Sickle Cell Disease trait. This must change, and I feel funding and awareness are some of the main ways to combat this disease. I can not do this alone and that is why I am asking for as many signatures I can get. Cystic Fibrosis is a disease very similar to SIckle Cell. 30,000 people suffer from Cystic Fibrosis in the United States and 70,000 Worldwide. In 2015 the NIH reported that Cystic Fibrosis made $80 million meanwhile Sickle Cell made $75 million. Sickle Cell affects more than double the amount of people Cystic Fibrosis does. Even though Sickle Cell is more common the funding and research numbers would not show that. I am an 18 year old Senior at New Haven Academy and am living with Sickle Cell disease; I know first hand the toll it can have on someone and their family. Funding for Sickle Cell can go toward screening for the Sickle Cell trait, more research, and better inpatient and outpatient care. Those are just some of the many things funding for Sickle Cell can do. I personally thank everyone who even takes the time to read this because you too are making a case for change. This petition is not just for me, it is for the hundreds and thousands of patients battling this chronic illness everyday.

Unfairness to mental patients unpay everybody else's rent if they go to hospital pay mine toooo please make this correct

It encourages usage of the drug and it's drug pusher gets a pass unfair and unethical

Too many people are being taken off medicine that gives them their only quality of life, only due to government involvement. Pain management by physicians is much safer and helps these people with the only quality of life they can get. Most patients of pain management are held to strict policy agreements including drug testing, pill counts, monthly visits and trying to find alternative treatments, which are often painful and do not help. We are patients, not addicts, and should be treated with respect. When will our lives matter? When more people die trying to live?

My name is David Jon Timm and I have been a patient of Positive Health Care at India Street Public Health for 12 years. Portland's proposed municipal budget calls for closing the India Street health clinic, which serves 1,000 patients a year, regardless of whether you have health insurance. Nowhere else in greater Portland can a person receive low-cost STD testing, free treatment for STDs, harm reduction education, clean needles and injecting equipment, and comprehensive HIV medical care. I was diagnosed with HIV in February of 2004 by the doctors at India Street. By April of 2006 I was diagnosed with AIDS. I started medical treatment immediately and by October of 2006 the virus was undetectable and I have remained undetectable and extremely healthy for the past 10 years. My experience with India Street has been nothing but stellar. Not only are the staff knowledgeable and highly educated in HIV care, they are a family to me and my relationship with them has been extraordinary. I can actually call my doctor and speak with her directly concerning any issues. Where can you get care like that? My story is different than most patients who are treated at India Street. I consider myself a success story. I have private insurance, a job, and I'm a college graduate. My medical history and my ability to beat AIDS and manage HIV can only be associated with the knowledgeable, professional staff at India Street. I owe them my life! Please sign this petition to keep India Street open.

Due to corporate financial game-playing, thousands of Americans are presently living without meds they need; medication they could afford only two and three years ago. Why? Between 2013 and 2015, a recipe of cold-hearted greed stirred in with a giant cup of NO regulations to cap prescription drug prices, created a feeding frenzy for a handful of huge shark-like pharmaceutical companies. Led by Valeant and Turing, they each began to buy up smaller companies, often ones with high quality medications which had been painstakingly developed but were soon to go off-patent; next, Research departments were tossed in the trash to save money, and last, the corporations each seemingly went on a two year Bachanalian tear, maniacally and arbitrarily jacking up prices of their newly acquired drugs by as much as ten times. It was as if they were no longer human, (certainly without hearts), partying in an alternate universe where they completely forgot that in ours, people actually need these drugs to get, or remain healthy. Next, these skyrocketing new prices were/are still inexplicably accepted by Medicare-contracted Health Plans like United Health, who then makes its customers pay the cost; they raise (and accept) our monthly premiums, yet make our drugs inaccessible by requiring that in each new year, just when we need to renew our next prescriptions, we have to initially pay out of pocket until we reach as much as $3,000, (an amount most of us don't have available). This is simply wrong. My personal story? I'm 60 years old, retired on Disability for eight years due to Parkinson's, diagnosed in 1999. In January 2015, a Valeant-owned Parkinson's drug I'd been taking for a number of years (Tasmar) rose to an unaffordable $1800 for a one month's supply, an amount I foolishly didn't question back because I need this drug to be able to move, and was still drinking the Kool-aid with a slogan that said, "This is just what some drugs cost!" I bit back my frustration, and used my credit card to pay my local pharmacy the $1800.00 in three mothly installments. However, in January, 2016, the same 45 pills rose to a surreal $2,259.00. This time I Googled Valeant, discovering that Tasmar's generic, Tolcapone, was also owned by Valeant, and would cost me "only" $1800.00 at Rite Aid, my pharmacy. As it turned out, United Health now preferred that I switch to Tolcapone, recommending me to their "preferred pharmacy" list. The closest was Walgreens, where my generic would cost me a lean $1500.00, which I was expected to be grateful for. This had turned into the Twilight Zone, and I refused to enter it. Instead I began to learn more than I wanted to know about these games being played by the big pharms and insurance companies. I learned that Walgreens had cut a deal with Valeant late last year, and then last month, United Health cut a deal with Walgreens. I'd already started a campaign (and petition) against Valeant, but then they struck again. In March I was prescribed Xyfaxan, a specialized, but highly effective GI antibiotic, soon after advertised during the Superbowl. My GI doctor warned me that Xyfaxan was "sort of expensive" but added that her office might be able to obtain free samples from Salix (now Valeant). She couldn't pull it off, but luckily, my GP did, giving me a two-month supply. The cost to me would have been $650 for one month. What if he hadn't done this? What about everyone else who needs this very useful drug? Why is this legal? Furthermore, why should customers needing their medications have to carry the cost of a pharm's TV advertising? Here's the BIG QUESTION: The FDA imposes rigorous standards before medications are deemed safe enough to be released for public use, yet there is no equivalent regulation or capping of prices which would allow us to afford to buy these same medications. WHY NOT? This is a national crisis and will burden our national budget as we are denied drugs we need and require increased levels of care. This must be addressed through immediate action! Please take notice!

In 2011 my Grandfather ended his life by a self inflicted gun wound to the head. As a sufferer of esophageal cancer he lacked to ability to even swallow. Due to the lack of compassionate end of life options he saw no other option. This is a fate I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. It's time for critical thinkers not influenced by outdated religious practices that force our terminally ill family and friends to make insane choices to provide options for people at their GREATEST time of need. Please for the sake our all our futures, pass Death with Dignity laws countrywide!

We want the Angelika Film Center and Cafe at Mosaic in Fairfax, Virginia to please book a full run of the movie Vaxxed. Parents in VA faced having their parental and medical rights stripped earlier this year when HB1342 was on the table. We have won round one, but the bill is being reviewed by the House Health, Welfare, and Institutions Committee and will be back on the table next year, if the committee doesn’t shoot it down. This movie would give us a platform, a place to invite our delegates to get some much needed information and education - the type of education we need to win this battle.

We are starting this petition for positive change in our community. Our goal is to get this established here in Wyoming County to give families peace of mind. We are being the change we want to see.