Kadiera's Playground Cute but Evil - it averages out

There's lots in my head right now that I'm not ready to share.

So instead, you're getting random observations.

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Insurance companies try to save money by suggesting that you try cheaper drugs first. When you know that a more expensive drug *works* and you're in a rather precarious position anyway, making someone try several other drugs first is money wasted.

When it's all said and done though, I will find a way to make them give me the drug that I know works for me and won't hurt Alex or make me have to give up breastfeeding.

Fuck them.

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Some people I know believe that the election results are the end of the world. Others believe that we have been given a messiah.

It was a very surreal moment this morning, listening to John McCain's health care reform plan on NPR.

Among the statements broadcast was something along the lines of the un-insured not being the problem, because most Americans *have* health care. To his mind, the problem is the cost, and he seems to think costs are high because employers provide health care rather than consumers paying directly, and because we should do more preventative and maintenence care when it comes to chronic illness.