Stop the Opiate Tax aka The Lifeboat Act
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Jun 11th, 2016Someone from Streamwood, IL signed.
Jun 11th, 2016Someone from Fresno, CA writes:
There are some of us that can't afford to pay more than we can already afford! I have CHRONIC PAIN AND I ALSO HAVE CHRONIC PANCREATITIS with out my pain medicine I would have no light at the end of the tunnel!!!! 😢😡💊🤕🤒Jun 11th, 2016Someone from Fort Wayne, IN writes:
This is wrong on so many levels. I hope our legislators will refuse to add this tax to the burden of pain and the stigma of requiring opioid medication that so many bear. Have some compassion!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 11th, 2016Someone from Jessup, MD writes:
This war on opiaits is severely affecting chronic pain patients who can't function on a daily basis without opioids. I have chronic pancreatitis one of the most painful diseases out there. Without opioids suicide is my only option for the pain. If opioids are taxed, even with insurance paying, they will increase prescription copays.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 11th, 2016Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL writes:
For those of us still working my meds are the only way i can make it through the day, Let the patient get the meds they needREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 11th, 2016Someone from Bear, DE signed.
Jun 11th, 2016Someone from Bear, DE writes:
Speaking as a very concerned, responsible, chronic pain patient. This tax will increase additional costs from out if pocket, because insurance won't cover a tax. I strongly believe this is not the answer to help people with true addiction. Those with true addiction need help, the responsibility should not be a burden for those of us who are living day to day with debilitating pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 11th, 2016Someone from Bradenton Beach, FL writes:
No funding should be needed and certainly should not come from tax dollars. We should focus more on screening patients medical record for possible abuse, not simply take all pain meds from all patients, which seems to be the way we're heading! This country is so f.....d!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 11th, 2016Someone from Cheyenne, WY signed.
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No, CancelJun 10th, 2016Someone from Norcross, GA writes:
This is so wrong and makes me very disappointed our government would even consider such a tax. Upstanding citizens who find themselves in a position to have to be placed on these medications should never be taxed. We already are looked upon as drug addicts should be enough humiliation without costing us more mine. Let the ones who abuse these medication be "fined". Not those of us who are legitimately taking them for a little quality of life! Thank you!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 10th, 2016Someone from Butte, MT signed.
Jun 10th, 2016Someone from Paradise, CA writes:
The Opioid Tax is a violation of every person suffering form pain human rights. Every human being in our country is supposed to be free from discrimination, punished for another persons crimes. No other medications have federal tax on Opioid done like this is discriminating human right violations of the disabled the elderly the chronic ill and the chronic pain patients of America. The people in pain have been screaming at the top of their lungs and have been ignored for far too long. to stop the abuses stop the discrimination stop causing pain and suffering of the legitimate pain patients. Chronic pain patients left in unrelieved pain die pain patients are dying they are committing suicide everyday unable to continue on in a constant existence of pain but even those numbers are not being released for what they really are. There are suicides because of unrelieved pain these are not just over doses. This taxing of the suffering the taxing of the innocent because of the guilty. This will you go down in history as the time America & her government turned on those that were ill the weak because of out of control fear out of control greed to profit off of those that were ill causing the largest jump in suicides this country has ever seen. All because those that could profit from it . Known for the time we were leaving people to suffer to die. It was all so avoidable but we let fear manipulation for greed skew are thoughts our ideas of what was right and hurt people because of it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 10th, 2016Someone from Adams, WI writes:
First ,''our'' government willfully commits torture and genocide onto a chronically ill w/painful medical conditions,,,then u expect us to pay for your corruption,cruelity and inhumanity towards the medically ill,,,,,NOT ON MY DIME,, taxation w/out representation is against the law,,,,more laws u have willfully broken Dr.Government!!!!marywREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 10th, 2016Someone from Cortland, NY signed.
Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Bartlett, IL signed.
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Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Poynette, WI signed.
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Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Conneaut, OH writes:
I am very disappointed in this bill. Adding a tax on medication taken by people who are already struggling physically and financially is irresponsible. Believing any insurance company will just absorb the cost is wrong, it will be passed on to the patient and everyone else by way of higher premiums. Is there a tax on alcohol just to fund rehabs? How about a separate tax on sports equipment to cover sports injuries and associated rehabilitation costs. There should also be a special tax on vaccines to cover any associated illness. How about a tax on diabetes medication to cover the costs of those who refuse to eat right and end up in comas? The only people who will pay this tax will be the ones who will never see any benefit from it. Has there even been a reliable study that shows the number of pain management patients who have went to rehab? Chronic pain patients should not be forced to pay for rehab for the very people who have caused so many of us to loose our medication or have it cut down to the point we are no longer living but now surviving. It is a slap in the face to those of us that follow our doctors orders and the laws. Make the people who created this problem pay. When dealers and addicts are arrested and convicted seize their assets. Everything they have and use that money, don't decide the DEA needs a seized Corvette, speed boat or anything else for undercover work. Don't put seized assets into the DEA's budget, put it into rehab so the same people are not arrested 3,4 or 5 times.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 9th, 2016Someone from Tulsa, OK signed.
Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Broken Arrow, OK writes:
I have scoliosis kyphosis & my spine is crushing my lungs. I've had scoliosis spinal fusion with sever nerve & muscle damage. I now have to pay once a month to see a pain doctor, have a urine test to get the pain medication I need. Now you want to tax them. Why am I being punished? I was born with a disease. Stop this insane tax. Tax soda if you need money. Because of you I now do without the things I need. I hope some day you have my kind of pain & nobody will help you!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 9th, 2016Someone from Keokuk, IA signed.
Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Crossville, TN signed.
Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Bedford, TX writes:
I'm a chronic pain sufferer and will be for the rest of my life. I don't choose opiates, I need opiates to function. After almost 30 years, I've never abused them and I'm FURIOUS that I'm punished for needing them. Back off!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 9th, 2016Someone from Plymouth, WI signed.
Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Waterbury Center, VT writes:
It's bad enough that we have to beg for pain relief. now you want to tax us? And you want to use the money for people who steal to get their drugs? NO. I work to pay for my meds.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 9th, 2016Someone from Valparaiso, IN writes:
Taxing people who are trying to cope with pain is criminal. Are you going to start taxing air next? Many people can't function without pain pills.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 9th, 2016Someone from Belleville, MI signed.
Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Houston, TX signed.
Jun 9th, 2016Someone from Sun City, CA writes:
Please think about the reality of punishing legitimate chronic pain patients with this tax.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 8th, 2016Someone from Antioch, CA writes:
Suffering Post Polio, severely deformed spinal condition, muscle wasting, severe chronic painREPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 8th, 2016Someone from Fayetteville, GA writes:
I have intractable spinal pain. I had scoliosis at age 13 and spinal surgeries from age 14 to age 35. I am in a wheelchair now. We should not have to pay for drug programs for ones that have an addiciction problem. Nor should our insurance be charged because of ones that desperately need pain medicine because of being in chronic pain. Please reconsider this because it w be a hardship for so many in chronic pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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