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stardust.hero said:
Everyday I'm presented with more supporting facts on why I love and am with my boyfriend. We're going to look at an inexpensive 2nd-hand couch set for our spare/game room. The set looks nice in the pictures but I'm not sure how it will be once we get up close. I don't want to insult the seller so I told my boyfriend if I don't like it I'm going to say "I don't think it's going to fit" (even though I know the dimensions), and I told him to say if he likes it and really wants it "Yes I think it will fit". There's nothing greater than being with someone you have great communication skills with ;). And secret codes. :sus:
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You two are one of the sweetest couples in the world.<3

adlib, I'm so glad you two hit it off and are going forward.:D
 
Medicaid is a health care program that is paid for buy the government.. it was just expanded to cover a whole bunch more people.. it covers people with little or no money, people with disabilities, etc. Medicaid . Medicare covers people who have reached a certain age. These programs are the programs that will eventually cost so much that it will finally force ethe US into a single payer health care system.. and I might even be still alive at that point.. I dont know though with the healthcare money making machine and its strong lobby it going to take the country almost going bankrupt to bring this about IMHO
 
I was going to ask if its similar to the NHS. In the UK, we have what's called the National Health Service where health care is free: GP visits, going to the hospital n so forth. I really don't kniw who you all survive with having to pay huge health care bills but if medicaid is for people who are unable to afford it, seems good. I thought I heard somewhere that Obama wanted something similar to a NHS. Is that true?

Thanks for explaining Medicaid to me.
 
Yes he did.. but he wasn't able to get what he wanted.. so we got the Affordable Care Act which just provided some positive changes to the existing system. The thing about health care is that it doesn't work to well in a free market model because when someone is sick they usually wont choose to purchase other things over the care to get better so it has a hard time as they can choose to charge so much money and people will still pay. So in traditional free market regulates itself by the price determine weather or not a person chooses to buy the product if the price is to high then people wont buy the good or service until it is lowered to a fair price, but with many things in medicine people dont really have to much of a choice on weather or not to purchase the service as it has become necessary for a acceptable life or needed not to die. So because of this the medical community can charge huge amounts and still get paid because allot of time people dont have a real choice. I dont know if that was clear but it does not work well in the supply and demand model of a free market system.

Also the doctors severely limit the availability of their profession.. this is plane by how hard it is to get into medical school.. not because it is the hardest field by any means.. its because it is really lucrative and there are many people vying for severally limited spaces.. the reason they want limited spaces is then it limits how many doctors there are and thus keeps prices high. If there were a plethora of doctors then the competition between them would drive prices down.

Also health insurance in the states was started after WW2 as an incentive to draw workers into companies. But it has caused the price of health care to skyrocket. If there was no health insurance then the medical community would have to charge what people could pay.. instead since everyone pools a whole bunch of money together with insurance and people who are sick get covered by this money then they can charge allot more than a single person could pay with out insurance. So if you find yourself without insurance in a system who prices are based off insurance then you are fucked.

With the baby boom generation ,when the soldiers from world war 2 came home so many people in the united sates had babies all at once it produced a huge generation of people. They are all getting old and will require tons of health care now.. this should almost bankrupt the current system and force the change that is needed as far as finally forcing the US into a single payer national health care system.
 
neversickanymore said:
Also health insurance in the states was started after WW2 as an incentive to draw workers into companies. But it has caused the price of health care to skyrocket. If there was no health insurance then the medical community would have to charge what people could pay.. instead since everyone pools a whole bunch of money together with insurance and people who are sick get covered by this money then they can charge allot more than a single person could pay with out insurance. So if you find yourself without insurance in a system who prices are based off insurance then you are fucked.
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This is so darned true.

neversickanymore said:
With the baby boom generation ,when the soldiers from world war 2 came home so many people in the united sates had babies all at once it produced a huge generation of people. They are all getting old and will require tons of health care now.. this should almost bankrupt the current system and force the change that is needed as far as finally forcing the US into a single payer national health care system.
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That's just too much nationalism for me, personally.
 
^^ fuckin insurance. My dad was forced to get a new insurance plan - last time I tried going to the Dr. I gave them the new insurance card and it wouldn't work. Found out that my new insurance only works in the state of New Jersey, unless I'm in an emergency room. Fuckin useless.... Never had this problem before >.<


It's hard to be depressed when you get back from running - Though I just got back from jogging for almost 30 mins total (almost double what i ran yesterday) and as soon as I got inside and went online, I ended up seeing something that triggered really sad thoughts. The thing is I have a bunch of good chemicals floating around from the run, which mixed with the negative thoughts/emotions is causing a sort of paradoxical contradictory feeling that my brain can't figure out how to process lol. I think I'm just gonna take a shower and do some homework now. 8(
 
^yep many many times, second getting what I have to do if I was good enough or if I will benefit from it. I realized though that not everything will be perfect so I am more relaxed these days. I am not saying I don't care as much anymore I just try not to stress myself over things as much as possible. Less stress, less anxiety.
 
^^I just have have to much free time right now and school hasn't really changed that at all because I finish all my classes by 10am or noon depending on the day, and no class on friday, saturday, sunday. I've been going to meetings everyday and working out everyday bit still feel like I have 4-5 hours at least with nothing to do and I don't enjoy video games or netflixing anymore.

Maybe it will even out once I start to get more homework this coming week. Time will tell.

It's funny, when I was using I would bitch and procrastinate things like going to the grocery store for 30 minutes because it took too much time out of sitting on the couch doing nothing. Now sitting doing nothing is the bane of my existence haha.
 
Maybe get a part time job? I am not sure how it will work out with your schedule but extra income won't hurt :D
 
^ I've actually been looking. I need to start pulling in money badly, issue right now is jobs in Berkeley are scarce and I don't have a car - yet. I recently signed some papers that once processed entitle me to a small amount of invested money from my grandparents that i was supposed to receive when i turned 21 (thank god my dad had the sense not to hand over the document until now) anyway, I'm not exactly sure how much it has grown to but I know it's at least enough that I can spend about half on a used car and save the rest of it/keep it invested - the point is that at some point in the next month or so I could be getting a car and will have a LOT more opportunities in terms of jobs. I've had quite a few people get back to me that I couldn't accept a position because it wasn't close enough to public transit.

Anyway, that's a really good suggestion and I suppose I could get back to actively looking in my city - I just know i had no luck actively looking all summer/fall but i have been laxed on it lately so i suppose just the act of looking is something else I could be doing haha.

Things like this opportunity I'm getting though are SUCH great reminders of everything I have and everything I'm getting back that would never have happened if I wasn't sober. I have so much motivation to stay clean and keep working a program of recovery - and that will always be the most important thing. I can lose everything but if I don't lose my motivation to stay sober then I'll be ok. :)
 
My schedule in the following months will be hella crazy!! Work then night school on top of it then workout sessions weekends might not even be free anymore so if there is anything I am dying for right now it is free time! But then again I easily get bored so I like the busy schedule, keeps you away from temptations for the most part.
 
Have you checked on any work study programs at the school case? They are usually pretty chill jobs, like in the library where you study most of the time but also do some work.

I think in a few weeks your going to be day dreaming of having a few hours of free time everyday.
 
i'm so sick of being stuck in bed all day from pain the meds barely help at all
 
It's your back, right dwamn? That's a tough one... With pain meds the only way it works is if you constantly raise your dose and become more and more dependent by the day. When I was in rehab in 2012 there was this guy who fucked up his back when he fell off the turret of his humvee in Afghanistan and landed on his back wearing a full pack. Went the painkiller route for a year or two until he started buying them on the side and eventually it got bad enough the army caught wind and made him go to rehab. So he kicked the oxys and had this iPod looking device but instead of headphones at the end of the cord it was electrodes he would attach to his back and basically shock a specific amount of electricity into his muscles. Apparently it worked decently for killing some of the pain - probably not nearly what you'd hope for but still an improvement without dependance. He also had tubes implanted in his back that would drip lidocaine onto his spine - but apparently the tubes need to be replaced every couple months and he said he didn't think he'd do that anymore because the pain after switching the tubes is worse then what they fix for a couple weeks.

Anyway, I know there is options besides opioids thats sort of the point here - especially if opioids aren't even working well anymore why not try something new? do a google search, talk to your Dr. There's gotta be another method that's at least worth trying ya know?

Sendin you good vibes and wish you the best dwamn!
 
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