As a single female with no children, I spend the last 2 months of my mother's life, helping her to die in her own home. I then wondered, "who's going to ever do this for me?" Do it with love and compassion and not to make a buck keeping you in a Medicaid bed as long as possible, stripping you of all your assets you've worked your life to acquire. I watched my father and grandmother die that way. Any hospital that would take you did... as long as they could bill Medicaid. At the limit...they find another place to place you.. and it keeps on until you die. If advocated were given to elders that needed someone to watch their back, I think Medicare wouldn't get away with sucking the system and then you dry. Statistics show that most people die in poverty. On Government medical assistance... Money for Advocates would serve to make sure that people with no help from friends or family had a person assigned to not let this happen. I saw it sadly through my own eyes... very obvious. Abuse of Medicare through abuse of the patient. I ask that Medicare also be responsible to pay for these advocates and show good faith to their insured, not use them as money makers. These are people with faces. People at the end of their lives, and this is the final respect and care they deserve. I want to be an Advocate, but I can't do it without a salary or guidelines. I'd like to make this an option to Medicare patients. Ask for an Advocate, have one assigned, and this Advocate have access to medical records. Advocate can serve 5 people at the very most. One visit a week, or as needed per patient. $500 a week for an Advocate can save thousands of dollars in Medicare waste and abuse. Seems like a reasonable idea.

The Koch Bros. have bullied their employees to vote for Romney or possibly lose their jobs. They are not only financing Romney's candidacy, they also are trying to rigg votes. Americans like you and me should not have to worry that money will trump democracy.

Obama is courting Ohio, and generally is a lot more in touch with voters than Mitt Romney is. But on ENERGY, he's out of touch. There are lots of renewable forms of energy to fund, subsidize, encourage, reward, and cheerlead for. (And there are thousands of jobs that are needed, to increase these, especially jobs doing groundpump-heat well-drilling.) There is NO SUCH THING as clean coal, safe nuclear, or nonpolluting gas-fracking.

Elected officials in Federal office currently have life-long health care benefits (personal and family) after they leave office. This is grossly unfair that the tax payer should subsize - for life - the health care of a retired elected official, even when that official continually votes down the potential for affordable health care for its citizens (e.g. John Kyl, R- Arizona). These former elected officials should have the same as most workers - once they leave office, they can apply for temporary coverage (18 months max) and then they must find their own coverage outside of tax payer funded programs.

I am distressed that the polls of women do not show overwhelming support for the Democratic ticket. How in heaven's name could ANY women support the g.o.p. ticket when they are commited to taking women back to the "dark ages". How is it possible that it's okay with any women, or any man who loves a woman -- wife, daughter, niece, grand-daughter -- to have pontifical men telling women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies? Especially in the case of rape! Oh, no, They would not have to bear the child of the criminal for nine long months. How can they justify ignoring the separation of church and state?

Billionaires and owners of corporations have spent millions of dollars in PAC money to effect the outcome of the election. With the possibility of losing, they have now resorted to threat and intimidation to their workers.

currently once your income reaches 106,800 social security taxes cease being witheld from your pay and your employer no longer pays any more. Persons with multi-million dollar incomes pay no more than a hard working husband/wife team whose combined income may not even reach this level. These upper income people are more able to make contributions than low income wage earners.

We should eliminate the stopping of social security at 106,000. The wealthy stop paying this tax in the first few hours of the new year. This like all taxes should have no ceiling. This i belive would stop its bankruptcy

This petitiion is about allowing people to be informed when they are eating GMO foods. As a clinician practicing for 30 years I have seen many clients become ill from foods that are genetically modified. They had no idea they were eating foods that had been tampered with. People have a right to know.

Now that Corporations are people, and people are small business'(120,000 people who make over 1million a year, some as much as 8 million) can and are called a small business I feel that these are the ones who are influesing our elections the most with their large donations to buy candidates.

Section 1 Art 2 of the constitution specifies how the president will be elected. The Electoral College is outmoded and robs voters from being counted in the Presidential Election. I needs to be abolished by a Constitutional Amendment specifying one person one vote. My vote for a Democratic President has not counted for several elections because I am in a majority Republican state, Texas.

The country would be better served if there were term limits for Congress. This would help to reduce some of the gridlock that we are seeing as members wouldn't be so worried about reelection and would vote their conscience versus party lines. What you have right now is everyone concerned about reelection and voting party lines versus whats best for the country.