Stop the Opiate Tax aka The Lifeboat Act
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Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Ogden, UT signed.
Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Greenville, TX signed.
Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Independence, OH writes:
This tax adds to the inhumane treatment the ill and aged are receiving from the parasitical pharmaceutical industry.Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Montgomery, IL signed.
Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Montgomery, WV writes:
Sen. Joe Manchin - your state is in ruins - you wan't to ruin us "proud West Virginians" now !!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Whittier, CA signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Saylorsburg, PA signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Rochester, NY writes:
I am Out Raged by this Tax .This is Discrimination for people with Disabilities and Chronic Pain Patients .With all the False reporting on Opioid's is this what our Leaders have stooped down to .Trust Your Doctors to do the right thing and Train them Properly .Shame on all of You !!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2016Someone from Chester, VA signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Vancouver, WA signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Osceola, IN signed.
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Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Blacklick, OH writes:
People in pain deserve mercy and treatment without punishment for a legal prescription.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2016Someone from Broadview Heights, OH writes:
people who suffer from chronic pain and disease should NOT be punished... we are in enough painREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2016Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
This is ridiculous. People should not be taxes for being in pain. It's as un-American as the price of EpiPens. Wake up, hypocrites.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2016Someone from Wind Gap, PA writes:
Another added cost that seniors can not afford to pay. So many of them choose which drugs they'll take each month because they cannot afford them all. Chronic pain suffers should not be made to go without relief to fund other programs. Why is it legislators who don't know what it's like to not be able to afford things are constantly looking for creative ideas to put more burdens on their constituents?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2016Someone from Pensacola, FL signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Effort, PA signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Washington Court House, OH signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Houghton Lake, MI signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Wind Gap, PA signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Waterville, OH signed.
Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Portland, OR writes:
As if pain patients don't suffer enough and don't have enough medical costs, they are being punished for using the medications made for cases just like theirs. Their treated like druggies who get high versus truly sick people who take it to barely take the edge of the most extreme pain. Shame on them trying to make money off the most vulnerable patients!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 24th, 2016Someone from Albuquerque, NM signed.
Aug 24th, 2016Someone from Elburn, IL signed.
Aug 24th, 2016Someone from Troutdale, OR writes:
The vast majority of patients who take opioids don't ever become addicted so making everyone pay for addiction treatment is unfair. Chronic pain patients who depend on these medications to be able to live their lives are on very limited incomes. Please don't make their lives even more unbearable. They have to jump through enough hoops already because of a small minority who abuse these vital medications.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 24th, 2016Someone from San Tan Valley, AZ writes:
This places an unfair burden on the already overburdened chronic pain patients who have seen a 400% increase in their monthly copay to obtain their life management medication. Those of us who jump through humiliating hoops (drug tests) every month (at increased costs to Medicare) to prove that we are NOT abusing our medication should not have to carry the cost of treating addicts who do abuse and don't want your treatment. This is the most asinine, discriminatory nonsense. Instead of continuing to punish the law abiding chronic pain patients, try going after the real abusers. Or stick with the Reagan policy and "Just Say No."REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from New Florence, MO signed.
Aug 14th, 2016Someone from Portland, OR signed.
Aug 12th, 2016Someone from Allentown, PA signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Columbus, OH signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Buffalo, NY signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Franklin, OH writes:
this is just another attack on chronic pain sufferers America know longer cares about the sick and disabledREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Burbank, CA signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Stevensville, MD signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Factoryville, PA writes:
This is wrong on so many levels! I am disabled and have a condition that causes me pain every day! My income is only my SS disability so I am below poverty level and now they want to tax the medicine I need to have any kind of functionality! Please think about what you are doing! Don't punish people like me who suffer pain every day and need those medications!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Seattle, WA signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Washougal, WA writes:
Chronic pain patients are already suffering. We are often at the brink of, or already in, financial ruin because of our health and inability to work. We are not responsible for heroin users, nor are we financially responsible for addiction of others.REPORT COMMENTS
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