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• Poll: Growing concerns on access to health care

  Tue Aug 18, 2009
  • I am close to being a senior. Unfortunately, not close enough. I feel the biggest concern for seniors is that their prescription costs keep going up and up and they are living on a limited income. I know from first hand experience.

• Poll: Growing concerns on access to health care

  Tue Aug 18, 2009
  • I am at the stage in my life where I need certain medications as an older individual. I am not old enough to qualify for Medicare but not young enough to qualify for MediCal because I am not of child bearing years. I am in the group that is in between.

• Have you ever used a tanning bed?

  Wed Jul 29, 2009
  • My father had to work out in the sun due to his job which was construction. Before he passed away I remember him having to have several spots removed from his face and head because of overexposure to the sun. I saw what he went through and do not have any desire to suffer the same fate.

• Have you ever used a tanning bed?

  Wed Jul 29, 2009
  • I Have never used tanning salons, but my sister did and is paying for it now. She is 9 years younger than I am and has had to have several skin cancers removed. She has had to have the top surface of her face scraped because of skin lesions.

• Is it fair for parents of obese kids to be accused of child neglect?

  Thu Jul 23, 2009
  • Some people claim that people that can afford to have children should be the only ones to have children. Well, I disagree. There is always a way to afford a child or two then no more. If only the ones that could afford to have children, there would only be one class of people.

• Is it fair for parents of obese kids to be accused of child neglect?

  Thu Jul 23, 2009
  • I feel that some obesity is unavoidable. But there must be some medical reason that this child is so overly obese

• Are moms held to an unfair standard when it comes to child custody?

  Tue Jul 28, 2009
  • In some cases in todays society. Women are still paid less than men, So it makes sense that it would be easier for the man to raise the kid

• $1.5 trillion plan would make health care a right

  Wed Jul 15, 2009
  • Not in California. I have already tried and I was told that being my employer cancelled the whole package we were not entitled to Cobra or anything else.

• $1.5 trillion plan would make health care a right

  Wed Jul 15, 2009
  • rmbscuba

• $1.5 trillion plan would make health care a right

  Wed Jul 15, 2009
  • My health insurance was cut due to cutbacks. Now I have to try and find health insurance on my own. I barely make $20,000 a year and they expect me to pay premiums of $500-$700 a month. I might as well be one of those that lives on the street because that is where I am headed.