Fentoine Lum
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Rather odd, the "primitives" we slaughtered off the land mass had a much better understanding of a spiritual existence than the diseased folk with their religion who eradicated them.
GOP AGs Going After Healthcare
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Rather odd, the "primitives" we slaughtered off the land mass had a much better understanding of a spiritual existence than the diseased folk with their religion who eradicated them.
ThatOwlWoman
Not Nice
Yep. I'm going back to my roots in my old age... working towards a degree at NMU in Native American Studies. Some of my teachers are those who have modern degrees in ecology and language and culture.... and also are indigenous folk working to restore the ancient knowledge and ways of being. A lot of whites think that indigenous NDNs are just naturally alcoholic drug abusing lazy asses. It's not that at all. It's the destruction of an entire people, their culture, their way of life, their spirituality, their languages. The substance abuse is just self-medicating.
Adolf_Twitler
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End stage renal disease (ESRD) affects almost 650,000 people per year in the United States. Oh, and the bad news is, the average cost of hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis is about $89K a year for these patients.
You do the math, but, that is a lot of money. Currently medicaid and medicare assumes much of the costs for these patients. In fact, dialysis costs are about 7% of the medicare and medicaid overall cost to the taxpayers.
Kidney transplants are the way to go here, because they cost an average of about $32K and will cost about half that the following year to check for rejection, and the administering of rejection drugs and therapy. But, after the 2nd year of therapy, the patient has about a 97% survival rate after transplant.
This is just one of the many high-cost diseases and treatments in the world. But, as you can see, it is tough for Insurance companies to want to cover this kind of treatment with ordinary health insurance. There are many other high cost diseases, that many insurance companies refuse to cover.
Some more bad news is that ESRD is on the rise within our own population as it seems to increase about 5% - 7% every year.
And of course there are a lot of Republicans who will say, "Let em' fucking die"! Well, that is unless they themselves have ESRD, or their spouse, or child, or grand child has ESRD.
But, of course, here in America, we are better than that. And quite naturally, we are a caring nation who cares for it's own.
https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney/need/statistics
You do the math, but, that is a lot of money. Currently medicaid and medicare assumes much of the costs for these patients. In fact, dialysis costs are about 7% of the medicare and medicaid overall cost to the taxpayers.
Kidney transplants are the way to go here, because they cost an average of about $32K and will cost about half that the following year to check for rejection, and the administering of rejection drugs and therapy. But, after the 2nd year of therapy, the patient has about a 97% survival rate after transplant.
This is just one of the many high-cost diseases and treatments in the world. But, as you can see, it is tough for Insurance companies to want to cover this kind of treatment with ordinary health insurance. There are many other high cost diseases, that many insurance companies refuse to cover.
Some more bad news is that ESRD is on the rise within our own population as it seems to increase about 5% - 7% every year.
And of course there are a lot of Republicans who will say, "Let em' fucking die"! Well, that is unless they themselves have ESRD, or their spouse, or child, or grand child has ESRD.
But, of course, here in America, we are better than that. And quite naturally, we are a caring nation who cares for it's own.
https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney/need/statistics
My brother worked in Pharm for many years. when he got brain cancer, like Mccain, he had to fight on the phone and deal with paperwork, like anyone else with American healthcare. He lived for 7 months and had to spend a lot of his short hours, fighting to get the treatment the doctors prescribed. We have a cruel and horrible system that should be thrown out.
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
Your party is a tad too small and defeated to be an opposition party.
And?
There are lots of lefties who claim to care for people. The problem is they regularly look to the other guy to foot the bill for their "compassion".
That degree is less worthwhile than one in Lesbian Dance Theory.
Your footprint is in mud and the sooner you go, the better.
Getin the ring
Verified User
no they are not, they are trying to bring you nut-bags back into reality.
Ask yourself why Obama set up triggers for his health care debacle to kick in after he was gone?
Obamacare never had a chance of working, it's math, which by your posts was probably not one of your favorite subjects, but we don't have any arts and crafts topics for you.
Trump killed Obamacare, gave it it's proper burial.
Now, responsible states are trying to come up with solutions to fix the wreck Obama left behind.
You can't have "no" denial for pre-existing conditions without a mandate, following along?
And you can't make people buy something they don't want. Following along?
And you can't ask me to buy your health care for you, when I still have to buy my own, following along?
let the adults do their job, you are obviously ignorant on the subject, but CNN told you "GOP bad", so you regurgitate it, we get that.
But save stupid for your private life, those people love you.
Irish Exit
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So what? This isn't because of evil republicans. It is because inept democrats rushing for the optics of having passed a major piece of healthcare royally fucked up and designed an absolutely disgraceful system in which a woman in a household making $100K can get free birth control and millions of working poor people cannot get anything all under the pretense of helping the very people who were fucked over.
Fentoine Lum
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Fentoine Lum
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Your "two" parties work in tandem to fuck you and you participate in the ruse.
That is your opinion.
There you go again blaming others for your failures. Do you realize that as long as you make excuses things won't get any better for you. Much like the alcoholic and drug addict, you have to admit you're the problem to solve it.