active HD asked:


Common people in California can barely afford Healthcare. Why shouldnt Prisioners have to pay for it? ie I need a joint replacement. My cost for freedom is to pay an arm and leg for health care and a top premium copay to get it replaced. And be stuck with Bills out the ying yang and still pay taxes for Prisoners go to the ER and receive free health care/Dental care/ eye care. Something needs to be done. People are struggleing out here. The cost of Childcare is crazy. Try going to school to better yourself and pay childcare along with rent and car insurance health insurance and other general bills. For the less fourtunate its a battle. I know theres some out there with some rude thoughts but keep them to your self. S*@! happens. The yearly cost to house a prisoner is 33k a year along with all the Free healthcare they want. I know some are thinking thats the price of freedom I dont want to hear it. We ppl should not be strugglin this hard. The welfare system is a loophole.anothr sub
Some of the the ppl answering must be the so called Victims. WHAT ABOUT THE REAL VICTIMS. And by the way they do make money. They also sue the state becuase they get a broken Cookie, or because they dont get enough soap. Petty stuff to hold up Tax payers dollarz . They should have no rights, x cons in the world have less rights than the prisoners. Of course thats why they go back to prision. LOL. Prisioners negeoitiate visiting time this isnt a right its a privledge. Or yard time. Its a free longterm hotel. In the state of LA its rough and it should be that way in CA. If you work the prisoners for no pay I believe there will be less prisoners. Slave drive them.. and for ppl on deathroe. we pay 33k+other benefits to keep these pieces of rubbish alive. Bullagone. The land of the free. The welfare system keeps america alive I guess. Geazz

wondering asked:


The box of Clear Care solution says DO NOT SHAKE, but of course I read that after I shook the case. Why aren’t you supposed to shake it? I won’t do it again, I am just wondering if they are safe to put in my eyes now and what the shaking does to the lens or solution.

Shorty asked:


I need to use direct marketing to build awareness for an Eye care centre. What incentive(s) will drive traffic to my stand?

itsyourworld_changeit asked:


Health Spending Exceeded Record $2 Trillion in 2006
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: January 8, 2008
WASHINGTON — National health spending soared above $2 trillion for the first time in 2006 and has nearly doubled in the last decade, amounting to an average of $7,000 a person, the government reported on Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/us/08health.html?ex=1200546000&en=44bd69a4dc9d5007&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Our system is Broken, HR 676 is the FIX!!
Will you support HR 676?
Check out some of the tremendous benefits that NHI will bring and see what you think:
Every citizen of the US will be covered from birth to death.
No more pre-existing conditions to be excluded from coverage.
No more expensive deductibles or co-pays.
All prescription medications will be covered.
All dental and eye care will be included.
Mental health and substance abuse care will be fully covered.
Long term and nursing home services will be included.
You will always choose your your own doctors and
hospitals.
Costs of coverage will be assessed on a sliding scale basis.
Tremendously simplified system of medical administration
Total portability – your coverage not tied to any job or location.
Existing Medicare benefits for those over 65 will remain the same or be vastly improved in many cases.
To begin with, it is NOT “Socialized Medicine”, far from it in fact. Also, it does not mean that our medical system will be taken over by the government and run like the post office as many of our opposition friends would mistakenly have you believe.
Basically, House Resolution (H.R.) 676, the “New Expanded Medicare” bill now in sub-committee in the House of Representatives simply creates a new and far more functional “single payer” method of paying for medical services while leaving the medical system itself completely alone and intact. This will eliminate the hundreds of complicated and redundant payment plans currently imposed on the system by private “for profit” health insurance companies and save literally BILLIONS of dollars every year by eliminating such wasteful duplication. This will allow your doctors offices and hospitals to function much more efficiently and serve your needs much more effectively as well. Just imagine what a huge benefit this
will be!
Taxes: We all know that nothing of any real value is ever free, but if you think of the taxes that will be required to support national health insurance as simply a lower cost alternative to the staggering private health insurance premiums that most of us already have to pay but which will be totally eliminated under the new system, then it becomes immediately clear that this could be a really good deal after all!
The real irony is that this new system will be a lot less expensive and provide much better services than the largely dysfunctional system currently in place and still leave us with the best health care system in the entire world, only with the New Medicare… it will be even better!
Don’t be put off by all of the misleading and often inaccurate rhetoric that you so often hear about changing our system. For example uninformed critics will ask “Do you really want your medical decisions made by some government bureaucrat in Washington?” Well, the truth is that with NHI, just about every medical decision will be made privately by you and your doctor. But ironically, under the current system, many medical decisions about what’s best for you are now being made by some corporate bureaucrat working for a private insurance company whose main concern is making larger profits by denying your claims. How exactly does that work out to be better for you??
Change is indeed often a very scary thing to most people, but when the need is so great and the proposed changes are so much better than the status quo, maybe changing to a NHI system in the USA is something that we can all think about supporting, whether you are a moderate, liberal or conservative, after giving it a lot of careful study and thought. Please call your congressperson and let them know what you think. They really need to hear from you.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676.htm

http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676_1.htm

http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676_2.htm
Even IF the cost of UHC reached $1 Trillion per year, we’d still be SAVING ourselves $1 Trillion per year.
Myths on Universal Health Care

By Dr. Marcia Angell, Past Editor New England Journal of Medicine February 4, 2003. Washington D.C.

Myth #1: We can’t afford a national health care system, and if we try it, we will have to ration care. My answer is that we can’t afford not to have a national health care system. A single-payer system would be far more efficient, since it would eliminate excess administrative costs, profits, cost-shifting and unnecessary duplication. Furthermore, it would permit the establishment of an overall budget and the fair and rational distribution of resources. We should remember that we now pay for health care in multiple ways – through our paychecks, the prices of goods and services, taxes at all levels of government, and out-of-pocket. It makes more sense to pay just once.
Myth #2: Innovative technologies would be scarce under a single-payer system, we would have long waiting lists for operations and procedures, and in general, medical care would be threadbare and less available. This misconception is based on the fact that there are indeed waits for elective procedures in some countries with national health systems, such as the U. K. and Canada. But that’s because they spend far less on health care than we do. (The U. K. spends about a third of what we do per person.) If they were to put the same amount of money as we do into their systems, there would be no waits and all their citizens would have immediate access to all the care they need. For them, the problem is not the system; it’s the money. For us, it’s not the money; it’s the system
Myth #3: A single-payer system amounts to socialized medicine, which would subject doctors and other providers to onerous, bureaucratic regulations. But in fact, although a national program would be publicly funded, providers would not work for the government. That’s currently the case with Medicare, which is publicly funded, but privately delivered. As for onerous regulations, nothing could be more onerous both to patients and providers than the multiple, intrusive regulations imposed on them by the private insurance industry. Indeed, many doctors who once opposed a single-payer system are now coming to see it as a far preferable option.
Myth #4: Claims the government can’t do anything right. Some Americans like to say that, without thinking of all the ways in which government functions very well indeed, and without considering the alternatives. I would not want to see, for example, the NIH, the National Park Service, or the IRS privatized. We should remember that the government is elected by the public and we are responsible for it. An investor-owned insurance company reports to its owners, not to the public.

The fed up matthew asked:


I’m basically asking if the general public that just watches the news once in a while even thinks about the reality that they are in debt slavery when they see stories of 700 billion dollar bailouts and trillion dollar health care proposals? Or do they just think money grows on trees and the government will just “take care” of everything?

No Clue?? asked:


Could you also help me with this survey! Please answer these questions base on your current knowledge, do not check it up!

1. Are eye problems (myopia, astigmatism…) hereditary?
A: YES / NO

2. Are you aware of the reasons why it is important that you have to care for your eyes?
A: (please choose those you think are the answers)
a) To be able to see people, objects…
b) To be able to hear better
c) To catch a ball easily
d) To be able to tell the colour of an object
e) To be able to avoid a flying object

3. Do you know what are the good eye care habits?
A: (please choose those you think are the answers)
a) You should lie down in a relaxing position to read a book
b) You should read the book 30cm away from you
c) You should take a vision break of 3-5mins after 30-40 minutes of work
d) You should stay home more instead of playing sports
e) Watch the television from a distance of 50cm all day long
f) Go for eye checks every year

Thanks for your help!

g_arienti89 asked:


I know models use Cetaphil for the wash but then what? Is there anything I can use to reduce stress in my face, expecially in the area between my eye brows, masks or anything?

I also have lines and puffiness that I thought were due to sodium intake, so I cut sodium out alltogether and its still there.

Any serious answer will be a huge help. Thank you.

nee nee asked:


I put it in a box. I gave it cat food and water. Its been acting strange lately too. It has been whining alot and it wont let me touch it..sometimes..

morbid_rose_83 asked:


About a few weeks ago I noticed something wrong with my 1 year old MinPin. At birth she had her tail docked and her dew claws removed. I noticed a knot where her dew claw would have been on her right paw. I have since kept an eye on it and it seems to have gotten bigger and is a little red. She doesn’t seem to be in pain but i worry if it will be a problem later. When I feel the bump it feels exactly like a claw but it is under the skin. Is there any advice anyone has before I rush to the vet?

Moonlit Darkness asked:


I was just enrolled and have til tomorrow to cancel or change plans or else I’m locked in for a year…Basically I was reading the small print and a) I only get 3 visits/year which I didn’t know will include dental/vision so between a general exam, dentist visit and eye care visit, that already uses up my 3 vists so if I get sick in the next 3 months I would have to pay my $4500 deductible before my benefits kick in! It’s with Blue Shield so if I cancel with them I don’t know if I will find other good providers (in CA).

There’s a catch with each plan they offer. If I choose low deductible, the monthly premium sky-rockets. If I choose a relatively similar cost plan with more visits, it doesn’t cover dental or vision. It just sucks, it’s like I can’t find anything that suits my needs. Any suggestions?
Oh and the kicker is that NONE of their plans cover lab/x-ray so if I want my cholesterol or sugar level checked I have to pay 100% out of pocket for any blood work including if I fracture a bone and need an x-ray, unless I have an HMO plan which costs 300% more/month. WTF