A beautiful place for that much needed vitamin D in its natural form!!

Oh dang it we are still in snow with more coming in tomorrow that will last through Monday morning. Our mountain hi~lands iare averaging 2 feet a weekend which is good for water supply later.

I can’t wait to get out planting I even have my parts already and lined up in the garage. Got about four bags of soil I need to mix when I’m able to start. Our gardens are Lifesavers, bring that inner peace and outward Beauty we need...I Envy you but sure am glad you get to get out and do it just be careful with that neck and shoulder...

In Tennessee, the State could barely afford to pay the Mental Health Co-op to have the nurse practitioner visit for 15 minutes every three months.

Federal regulations and subsidies might insure that poorer States can give it a shot at offering better services. The Red State Governors, Tennessee's was one, who refused the Medicaid Expansion subsidies under the ACA have some accountability here.

Mississippi has it worse.

States with lotsa extra letters in their names, but little cash in the coffers.

denied healthcare... now you have the difficulty of defining just what you mean by that.

ON the verge of dying? right at that point some thing would be done.. at the early stage of a deadly disease?? No, not if the orange cult gets its way.. let em rot..

More to the point of our real life, the question should be; who has been denied health coverage, even when well able to afford it..

For a simply answer, it is me me me... for near 5 years after I began my own business I was without insurance for myself although I payed for my wife, 3 kids and 2 grand kids..

as luck would have it, I never needed it although in one instance I would have gone to the Doc for a flu like bug..

So if you do not want health care for all because you see it taking money from your pocket, why do you not object to refusal of insurance to others which in the end you would then have to pay more to ease the end days of the unwashed unwanted who do not get to pay for their needed insurance?

In our society, no matter how distorted the figures become, the t***h is that health care for all is the cheapest answer for you and the population of our nation..

I have Medicare. For me. When I went to the ER after a fall which injured my shoulder and knee, I was told they would evaluate only the more serious shoulder dislocation and refused to Xray the knee or the internal delicate surgically balanced appliances that keep my neck together these days, even though I had symptoms of cervical radiculopathy (neck pain, shooting to the fingers, indicating a pinched or damaged nerve in the neck bones...) I was told it was cost saving to focus ONLY ON THE ONE INITIAL COMPLAINT during emergency visits and referred to the clinic next day for the knee, and to my previous neurosurgeon in the following week, if symptoms persisted.

I only went because of my concern for my spine, having treated the shoulder adequately myself. I had already popped the shoulder in place myself because I knew the ambulance ride would take about a half hour, and typically the longer one waits the more spasmed and tight the muscles can become, and it can then be impossible to set correctly without surgical anesthesia.

I protested to no avail. Was given my discharge papers despite insisting that I wanted evaluation of the neck in addition.

Then, the discharge instructions said clearly that I should return to the ER immediately, (it said immediately!) if I experienced pain shooting down my arm. Duh! I just concluded I was insane from the pain and narcotics and went home to try to sleep it off.

Wanted a neck xray, but got only a bad view of the shoulder. And a shot that dulled my protest.

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When my son applied for disability he was told he might also receive Medicaid in the interim but if found not qualified for Social Security Disability, he would have to pay the premiums back retroactively! He knew he would be unable to do that so did not accept the coverage. It took five years before he was able to qualify due to delays, appeals and rejection due to lack of treatment records, because he couldn't afford treatment and was only seen for 25 min every three months by a nurse practitioner who did not have his medical records available from the Behavioral Health Institute's muddling attempts. A Catch 22 that guarantees homelessness, medical indigency, social oblivion, and isolation in death in far too many cases.

He finally was admitted to Vanderblit Hospital due to an extraordinary scenario I was just lucky enough to have been able to maneuver them into, instead of committal to the State Behavioral Health Institute again (jail for poor psychiatric patients who become dangerous to self or others.) They helped him aquire Medicaid, and he now has Medicare and SSD, though he will be reevaluated in 8 months for possible improvement and loss of benefits. He is Manic Depressive and has Dystonia, a condition similar to Parkinson's Disease. Still works part time delivering sandwiches.

The other two stories will just make this post too long....

I need to get out more! These book long posts MUST be getting annoying for folks....