Stop the Opiate Tax aka The Lifeboat Act
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Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Lapel, IN signed.
Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Charlestown, IN writes:
Wow! It's not enough I'm disabled, have to pay for 2 insurance companies and deductibles out the yang yang now you want to tax me for it. Again, WOW!!!Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Cape Coral, FL signed.
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Eustis, FL signed.
Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Kennesaw, GA writes:
I have inflammatory arthritis. I don't abuse pain medication and am able to function and work full-time. Taxing me is like mutiple taxation. Its already unfair to have a chronic disease but I'm not on disability, I don't abuse drugs, and I pay taxes.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Beaverdam, VA signed.
Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Salem, OR writes:
I'm nearly 60, pain-disabled, further sickened by the opiophobic crusade that's terrorizing and torturing legions of innocent, legitimate patients. This abominable proposal feels like a smug circle of politicians standing around and kicking those who are already down and hurting. It is misguided, it is ignorant, and it is cruel! They bill it "lifeboat," but for chronic pain patients this is a torpedo.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Simpsonville, SC writes:
This will not help. You are only punishing the ones who need it most. Pain is real and my daughter can not get out of bed without pain medicine. She has a spinal injury, This makes no sense to make disabled people pay more when most drug addicts get it off the street!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
Do something to get the drugs out of the streets. That is where people are buying them who are addicts. Not chronic pain sufferers who go to their doctor. DON'T MAKE US PAY MORE FOR THEIR ADDICTIONS. MY INSURANCE DOES NOT COVER MY MEDICATION. Quit making life more difficult for those who suffer with chronic pain. I promise you...THE ADDICTS ARE LAUGHING. THEY ARE NOT EFFECTED BY YOUR REDICULOUS LAWS AGAINST HONEST PEOPLE. AN ADDICT WILL BE AN ADDICT UNTIL THEY DON'T WANT TO BE.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Saginaw, MI writes:
As a chronic pain sufferer this is not in mine or millions of others best interests.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Caldwell, ID signed.
Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Caneyville, KY writes:
Stop this TAX most people who need these or any meds can not pay more. We are all in need who in are government lives in the real world.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 4th, 2016Someone from North Fort Myers, FL writes:
How absolutely SICKENING. Why are the rich sooo stupid as far as commom sense goesNONE of THEM have a concience either. As if the disabled,DONT SUFFER ENOUGH??sickening just beyond sick. This country has gone to he//.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Palm Bay, FL writes:
It is absolutely DESPICABLE to propose taxing any prescription medication but most especially taking money from those usually least likely to be able to afford it - who would have to use their limited Social Security or Disability income to pay for what is not only a Giveaway to "addiction therapy" businesses and pharmaceutical companies but also has been touted by Senator Manchin as basically an "economic stimulus" program for WV! (Per the local Beckley newspaper): "Manchin is hopeful the funding for treatment will allow for recovery, and to help get West Virginians back in the workforce ? he said the state is currently below 50 percent workforce because they lack needed skill sets, have criminal records, are addicted to drugs, or a combination of the three issues. He said if nothing else, this plan is needed "for the economic well-being of our state." NO! (What's needed for the economic well-being of his state is for him to get to work helping to draw other, healthier, cleaner good-paying industries to West By God to replace those killing coal jobs!) We, as chronic pain patients, would like nothing more than to have a SAFE, affordable alternative to the opioids we have to take for any relief (but no pharmaceutical company has offered that...yet). Better yet, most of us would rather not have to take drugs at all. However, several of the treatments for our pain - spinal injections, surgery, ablation, etc. - have CAUSED our chronic pain - with failed back surgery, RSD/CRPS, Arachnoiditis! One of my relatives almost died last year from lumbar steroid injections which caused a spinal abscess and meningitis that went to her brain. She now has to stay on antibiotics and had to have surgery to put rods in her back to replace the disks damaged by the infection. She got those injections in order not to have to take a low dose of hydrocodone long term and now she has to take extended release morphine! ALL of you legislators really need to do your own research! Talk to chronic pain patients who are having their doses cut or stopped abruptly because of this "hysteria" - because doctors are so terrified of losing their livelihoods and everything they've worked so hard to build, defending themselves from criminal prosecution after being "Perp-walked" in front of TV news cameras staged by the DEA - because they tried to do what they trained to do and treat their patients' pain. And maybe one of those patients sold some of their meds for grocery money then the DEA goes in undercover and imitates the symptoms of severe pain well enough to "fool" the doctor into thinking they are treating a real patient in need. A good number of those doctors have their licenses taken by their states and, even if they are vindicated in court - or charges are dropped after investigation, these doctors lives are ruined and many of their patients have been put through withdrawals. Some commit suicide. Yes, people can accidentally overdose on opioids - or have a rREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Rock Hall, MD signed.
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Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Sanborn, NY writes:
So many take these medications for quality of life. Not to get high. How can you fairly put a tax on one type of medicine claiming it is to help those who abuse their medications/drugs. Just stop joining chronic pain sufferers with drug abusers. It is wrong, unfair and is causing people that are already is so much pain and suffering much more heartache and difficulties.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Louisville, KY writes:
I already live in fear of losing my medication. The price is almost more than I can handle now. Not all of us are addicts. I live with chronic pain every day of my life. I should not have to pay for someone else's irresponsible actions.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Kissimmee, FL signed.
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Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Little Rock, AR writes:
I'm not willing to pay any tax so the government can use this money to help drug addicts.You are targeting the poorest bunch of people in the US: Seniors and the disabled ( many from chronic pain ) I'm tired of the war on Chronic Pain Patients,Wake up! You are targeting the wrong set of people!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Alamogordo, NM writes:
What about heroin addicts and people who buy prescription drugs off the black market. Will they pay taxes? This will hurt legitimate pain patients who use their pain pills appropriately.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Niles, OH writes:
Stop torturing and killing the eldrley and chronicly ill people.Give us back are pain medication you dumb sonofa*****es.Patients Not AddictsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Naples, FL writes:
This is a ridiculous burden that these "officials" would be putting on patients who are on disability and cannot afford to live properly. If you don't think about that, here's an example why you should. I was a successful international business owner for many years, and a writer and spokesperson in the computer industry. I have a stack of awards and a background anyone would be proud of. Now, everything is gone because of my status as a disabled person, making 1100 a month. If I bought and took all my medications, it would cost me more than twice that amount. In exactly three years or less, I will be on the streets, as I have no one to help me. Most of my family has died and it was a small family to begin with. You add a tax to a situation that is already burning up chronically-ill patients in every possible way. Do you think that is a fair idea of doing something good? This is a reckless, criminal thing to do as this government continues its war on pain patients. I want you to live in my shoes or come to my house for one day. Then I can show you why this tax is utterly insane.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Indian Trail, NC writes:
Stop this tax, don't make the people who really need this be punishedREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2016Someone from Chaffee, MO signed.
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Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Oroville, CA writes:
why are you waging war on chronic pain patients? the ones who use their pain medication to have just a little bit of a life? the ones who take their medication like they are supposed to? there is a difference in being a drug addict and a pain patient. if you don't know what that difference is please do some research.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 4th, 2016Someone from Gray, GA writes:
This proposed law represents a "sin" tax. Chronic pain is an authentic curse, not a sin. This tax is therefore misguided and cruel. Thomas Sachy MD MScREPORT COMMENTS
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