Thomas Paine

Autumn wrote:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I looked left to see 2 nuns glaring at me. I kept the faux painful look going and they seemed very confused. Priceless!

Shame they didn’t ask you what was going on. You could have told them it was nun of their business.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I looked left to see 2 nuns glaring at me. I kept the faux painful look going and they seemed very confused. Priceless!

Shame they didn’t ask you what was going on. You could have told them it was nun of their business.

jakelafort wrote:
It is exactly as one might expect. Goody two shoes with conditions on their largesse; plus policies that interfere and obstruct the doc/patient relationship and the expectation of secular policies.

What’s shitty is in some hospitals they won’t even give referrals so patients can get the care they need elsewhere in a timely…[Read more]

Give him a fair trial and then lock him up!

I do some non-medical work in various hospitals. In the past when walking around an Irish hospital one would see a large wooden crucifix in almost every ward and hallway, with a small church on site and “sisters” everywhere. Priests would just wander into any room they wanted to and start preaching or praying at you. Well Fuck that.

In one…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

jakelafort wrote:
And there are crosses, big fat ugly crosses, in each room. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on but exempt the horse from bad treatment. I like horseys. nnnnnnnhhhhhhhhhhh.

Crosses? Not my experience. Rather Father So-and-So comes in to ask if I’m one of the flock. I say no and he goes away. Haven’t seen any…

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@Reg

Many sites don’t start enforcing their paywall until you’ve read a certain number of stories, like two or five. I run into that all the time. Then I just look for other sources quoting them.

Ok Unseen. That is news to me. I assumed cuz i had seen it in two Catholic hospitals that it was universal. Teaches me to paint with a broad brush.

It is exactly as one might expect. Goody two shoes with conditions on their largesse; plus policies that interfere and obstruct the doc/patient relationship and the expectation of secular policies. It is arguably unconstitutional to have the feds giving money to the religious hospitals.

Fuckerz. It is never live and let live. It is how can i…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
And there are crosses, big fat ugly crosses, in each room. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on but exempt the horse from bad treatment. I like horseys. nnnnnnnhhhhhhhhhhh.

Crosses? Not my experience. Rather Father So-and-So comes in to ask if I’m one of the flock. I say no and he goes away. Haven’t seen any nuns, either.

Once again I am not sure why the WP article is pay-walled for you as it is fully available to me (not all are) and I have no sub to it. So I did a copy&paste and embedded most of its links.

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Let’s say a patient is considering a tubal l…[Read more]

And there are crosses, big fat ugly crosses, in each room. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on but exempt the horse from bad treatment. I like horseys. nnnnnnnhhhhhhhhhhh.

Unseen wrote:
Regarding We don’t want your Catholic god in charge of our healthcare. Under my Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage Plan), which is run by a local healthcare network backed by The Cuddly One’s riches, I’m better off going to one of their hospitals than to the local Christopher Hitchens Memorial Hospital basically because there isn’t…

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Yeah, everybody’s situation is unique. When it is time, I will do a huge spreadsheet to evaluate all the options. I have a financial sheet that calculates all my investments daily and projects 30 years into the future based on current data.

Right now, we still have a subsidized Obamacare plan and we are very happy with it. Too bad we can’t just…[Read more]

@Robert

For me, with my rent and food costing more and more, saving money is a major consideration. I make the sort of decisions one on a small income has to make.

Aside from diabetes, I have other health issues and work with several different specialists for vision, cardiac care, podiatric care, a history of intestinal polyps (so far, benign),…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I am still a few years out, but the majority of guidance suggest avoiding Medicare Advantage and going with Medicare Supplement. A Supplement may cost more each month but when you get really ill, that’s when they are much better.

Here’s the other side of the story:

I’m a type 2 diabetic. I use Humulin Insulin R and Humulin I…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Regarding We don’t want your Catholic god in charge of our healthcare. Under my Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage Plan), which is run by a local healthcare network backed by The Cuddly One’s riches, I’m better off going to one of their hospitals than to the local Christopher Hitchens Memorial Hospital basically because there isn’t…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Autumn, I didn’t see the part of the story on Reiki and Aromatherapy, but that by itself would’t make the story false.

The story strained credibility in the first place which makes it worth checking before reacting. It was a story that was not impossible, yet not plausible.

It sounds a lot like you put ‘Feelz’ before ‘Re…[Read more]

Davis,

I fully budget for nuttery of all kinds, but when nuttery combines with what is called Lawfare, something that can easily destroy livelihoods and lives, it is my equivalent of the rustling in the Veldt.

This time, it was just the wind going in a different direction and the threat wasn’t what it seemed. Next time? Who knows?

One day,…[Read more]

Autumn,

I didn’t see the part of the story on Reiki and Aromatherapy, but that by itself would’t make the story false. There are plenty of womenfolk who want to get in with Gwynneth Paltrow’s Goop Set, but don’t have the cash, so they’d have every reason to frivolously sue somebody for it.

But even granting that the story is false, which I’ll…[Read more]