Rachel Nabors ([info]crowhen) wrote,
@ 2008-02-28 22:05:00
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Insurance's POV on orthodontry for adults: It's COSMETIC! But, like, um, on kids it's necessary...
Read this post about another woman, an adult, going through hell because she wants to keep her teeth. Great insight into how insurance deals with so-called unnecessary procedures in adults.

Had to share. (And many thanks to her for linking to me!)


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[info]quamp
2008-02-29 12:58 pm UTC (link)
This makes me glad I had my surgery while I was still a minor. Health care for everyone seems like a far and distant dream right now. Sure, the candidates are promising health care for everyone, but when it comes down to it, the health insurance industry's lobbiest are just too powerful. They got our wonderful president to deregulate the industry in 2001 and profits have sored while consumers are screwed.

I thought this thing might be covered under the catastrophic illnesses act, but she says it isn't. That, to me sounds very stupid.

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[info]joamette
2008-02-29 06:12 pm UTC (link)
The way I understand the liberal plan for "universal health care," it seems that they plan on making it universal by mandating that it be purchased (at the risk of having your wages garnished)...

That just doesn't... make sense... to me... o_o

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[info]crowhen
2008-02-29 06:59 pm UTC (link)
No, it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Half of our taxes go to pay for war. These whiny little bitches who cry that oh, where WILL, the money come from for universal healthcare? How about a policy of non-involvement like we had before World War II? You can't tell me that 50% of our taxes couldn't keep everyone in good health.

I have no problem with paying for others to be healthy. Healthy people are less stressed, more productive, happier, and in general safer to share a city with.

Sometimes I wish our tax files came with a little percentage chart where you could divide your taxes up into percentages of how you want them used, like 25% to war, 25% education 50% healthcare.

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[info]joamette
2008-02-29 08:50 pm UTC (link)
Why, oh why, would they ever give us that much control over our own country? :P

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[info]crowhen
2008-02-29 08:53 pm UTC (link)
I don't know. Why would they give us electronic voting machines?

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[info]joamette
2008-03-01 07:23 am UTC (link)
To complete the circle, of course.

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[info]jinnayah
2008-02-29 10:52 pm UTC (link)
Liberals generally want fully funded single payer health care, like every other industrialized nation has. Unfortunately, none of them are serious contenders for office. *sighs*

What infuriates me about it is that many people can afford health care but are denied it for other reasons. No one knows the exact number (um, problem there. That data's critical to an informed decision), but it could actually be the majority of the problem. It's well within the realm of possibility. Requiring the purchase of health care does nothing for those cases if the government doesn't require companies to provide it. And the problem has NEVER been that people don't want to pay for it; it's that they can't afford to or can't get it. Duh! This is a huge bait-and-switch.
Sorry, the American health care system enrages me.

What's even more infuriating is that what we've spent on the Iraq war would have completely eliminated poverty in the US for 25 years.

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[info]crowhen
2008-02-29 11:09 pm UTC (link)
Yes, my mom wants to buy health insurance, but she keeps getting turned down. It's insane.

I think America can do better. Now that the dollar is sliding and our international image is pockmarked, I don't think our bigshots, political, financial, media or otherwise, can be cocky about "America is number one country!" anymore. It's a damn good thing, too. We need to stop kidding ourselves that if the people on Wallstreet are fat and well fed that the rest of the country must be, too.

Where I lived before I moved to this city, we were lean all the time, no matter how good the rest of the country supposedly had it. The heartland, the farmers, the workers, I saw them forsaken, and I fled.


Oh, sorry, I saw you had your soapbox out and thought I'd get out mine. It's cherry wood.

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[info]jinnayah
2008-02-29 11:17 pm UTC (link)
Ooh, nice. Is that an oil finish? Soapbox is just pine, but I find it gets a nice spring to it when I really get going. ^_~

I know just what you mean. A few years ago I got so sick of hearing "The economy's good! Look at the numbers!" when so many people I know were struggling to make ends meet and worried about the future.

Edited at 2008-02-29 11:18 pm UTC

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[info]joamette
2008-03-01 07:20 am UTC (link)
To be honest, I can't think of a single person I would like to see as president.

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[info]crowhen
2008-03-01 07:23 am UTC (link)
I'll do it. And I'll be honest about my views and listen to my constituents.

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[info]joamette
2008-03-01 07:26 am UTC (link)
You'd be a relatively great president, but I just take issue with any given, fundamentally flawed human being having that much power.

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[info]crowhen
2008-03-01 07:49 am UTC (link)
What about congressperson?

But seriously, as president, I could ban phthalates from plastics production (the EU already has), put the teeth back in OSHA and the FDA, kick up the environmental protections acts to where they were before Bush crippled them, and reinstate the Super Fund. Oh, and ban partially hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup and demand country-of-origin labeling on all goods and foods. And get some filters on our waste water treatment plants to comb the estrogen imitators women on birth control pee into our rivers (it hurty the fishies sex lives).

Somebody's gotta do it.

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[info]joamette
2008-03-01 08:04 am UTC (link)
You just reminded me to take my birth control pill. Thank you! 0_0

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[info]crowhen
2008-03-01 04:36 pm UTC (link)
Le gasp! Joey is on the pill! You have come of age. *dramatic heartfelt music spattered with tears*

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[info]joamette
2008-03-01 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Silly goose, I've been on it for about a year. :P *gives you a hanky*

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[info]joamette
2008-03-01 07:27 am UTC (link)
Teehee... but given that that's how the system works right now.. do you plan on running? 2012 perhaps? ;P

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[info]crowhen
2008-03-01 07:35 am UTC (link)
If I thought I had a chance.

Actually, I'm thinking I need to start local, run for county board of directors, something like that. Anyone can be a politician. You just have to want it and to remember to be loud. Be loud. Be loud. Do not be a good little quiet peasant. Say what needs to be said. If no one is representing you, find a way to represent yourself and others like you.

And if you want to aim higher, I think in the age of today's Internet popularity contests that it will have nothing to do with corporate donations. What will matter is how big your fan base is and whether or not they're registered to vote yet or willing to spread the word for you.

After hearing these stories and getting these letters, I am now determined to find a way, anyway to make the System better, even if all I can do is be loud right now. If I can find a more productive way, I will pursue it. But right now, this is what I can do best. I promise I will be loud.

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[info]joamette
2008-03-01 08:03 am UTC (link)
And I'm one of the many that is sincerely grateful for your volume. :)

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[info]joamette
2008-03-01 08:09 am UTC (link)
Seriously, though, that's why I really, really love my professors this quarter. Professor Bauer is always telling us, "I'm here to guide you, not spoon-feed you. You have to be active learners, seek the knowledge you know will need, and learn the skills you know your goals will require. Tolerate no limits." People need to start applying that to their daily lives - stat!

So really think it's more a matter of helping people realize that they are not as helpless and dependent as they think (or encouraged to be). Getting people with strong ethics into positions of power may be a good start, but those people all eventually die. For there to be real change, our culture and perceptions must change first.

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[info]medicine_health
2008-10-31 01:40 pm UTC (link)
some private health insurance can be costly

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