LadySkinsFan Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 One reason employees' health insurance shouldn't be tied to employers. Period. Having a public option would relieve employers of this responsibility and free employees to choose their jobs without fear of losing health insurance. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 53 minutes ago, Springfield said: Yeah. It’s pretty awful. I was told they think I have Lou Gehrig's disease. It was a kidney stone. I think I win. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 14 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said: I was told they think I have Lou Gehrig's disease. It was a kidney stone. I think I win. Did you see a doctor or was that Web MD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, Springfield said: Did you see a doctor or was that Web MD? That was a doctor.......who probably used Web MD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, LadySkinsFan said: One reason employees' health insurance shouldn't be tied to employers. Period. Having a public option would relieve employers of this responsibility and free employees to choose their jobs without fear of losing health insurance. Ive worked for the same company for over 20 years. It’s a small business (~20 employees). We have switched health insurance no less than 8 times in my tenure there. Lately, it happens every single year. It’s all in the name of getting better prices (really, the same price for similar coverage). It’s ****ing annoying. I’d gladly pay more for Aetna Innovation. Actually **** that it should be included in my taxes. 3 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said: That was a doctor.......who probably used Web MD. It’s like your mechanic googling the fix. Edited April 4, 2019 by Springfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngestson Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 4 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said: That was a doctor.......who probably used Web MD. No. Web MD would definitely have gone with Lou Gehrig's disease. No one gets off that sight without an 81.7% chance of death. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Larry Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Reading visionary' post, above. Looks like a scramble to try to figure out how to get paid for health care, with multiple agencies run by differing levels of government all saying "not my job. Try somebody else." Something which I see far too often in my low-level health care job. Just speculating that maybe, if there was only one program, it might reduce the "pass the buck" games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Who the hell wants a lap dance from that guy? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Doctor: No way in hell Im gonna start prescribing Fentanyl for back pain. That would be tantamount to murder. CEO: But what about a lobster tail in the champagne room? Doctor: Say no more! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozo the kKklown Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 On 5/2/2019 at 6:46 PM, Sacks 'n' Stuff said: Who the hell wants a lap dance from that guy? **** he could give me a lap dance any time he wants for $20 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 WTF is wrong with Republican lawmakers, floating a false idea that women seeking an abortion must be informed that abortion can be reversed? ****ing assholes, they aren't physicians, don't have women's bodies, and are striving at every opportunity to deny women's bodily autonomy. Dicks. https://news.yahoo.com/abortion-apos-reversal-apos-method-145037332.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Do we have an abortion thread? Don't think I've ever seen one but it's hard to believe it has never come up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Senior Hunger Surges As Boomers Swell The Ranks Of The Nation's Elderly The massive Baby Boomer generation which brought America the happiness of rock & roll and the Ford Mustang en masse is poised to trigger a surge in a scourge: Senior hunger. The number of Americans turning 65 each day has doubled since 2000. At the same time, seniors afflicted with very low food security has soared nearly 250 percent. If food insecurity is not addressed, the number of seniors facing hunger will soar to eight million by 2050 the Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks, warned in a new study. Already half of older Americans are malnourished or at risk of being malnourished, the Senate Aging Committee was told at a recent hearing. Both the Republican chair and the lead Democrat on Senate Aging, Maine's Susan Collins and Pennsylvania's Bob Casey have warned funding for food programs under the Older Americans Act need to be increased to meet the increase in demand. The Committee recently was presented with stark evidence by a Department of Health and Human Services Official that hunger and chronic health problems for the elderly go hand in hand including more frequent and long hospitalizations. Two years ago, 95 percent in Older American Act nutrition programs had multiple chronic conditions. Nearly half of congregate OAA meals programs and nearly two thirds of home-delivered participants have six or more. Over 21 percent of congregate and 40 percent of home-delivered participants take more than six. In some cases, taking food with drugs increases the effectiveness of the medications. The stage has been set for greater elderly hunger not only by the greater number of people past 65 with the Boomers, but also how they have differed from past generations as they have grown older. Family as a food safety net isn’t as strong as it once was because the invention and popularization of birth control pills during the Boomer’s era has meant fewer children and because like no generation in the past, a significant number of Boomer women have chosen to remain single and make a living on their own, says the namesake star of the PBS series “America’s Generations With Chuck Underwood. Underwood points to something else that has shut the door for many Boomers to use their families as food pantries. “Boomers are the divorce generation. And by taking the divorce rate over the moon, some Boomers remain alienated from their own children,” said the generational strategist. The danger of a senior hunger surge from the move of the Pepsi Generation into retirement is also being exacerbated by dramatically rising health care costs and the perpetual underfunding of programs like Meals on Wheels, asserts Case Western University aging expert Sharona Hoffman. Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 What if we really knew the true costs of our medical care? Interesting TED talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 (edited) Edit: Wishing the best of health to all Extremeskins brothers and sisters... Edited July 2, 2019 by Dan T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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