Thoughts of a dancing writer

Ninth year National Novel Writing Month winner, Ballroom Dancer for four plus years, philosophy and rational thinking addict, truth seeker, ex Mormon, doing the best I know how with the thoughts I've got. :) 

[meladoodle]

I’ve never seen the girl from myth busters and the paramore girl in the same room

[beautifulgodzilla]

THIS TOOK A FAR DIFFERENT TURN THEN I EXPECTED

[beautifulgodzilla]

[mariesbookblog]

I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE SECOND PART

[sinkinga-w-a-y-deactivated20150]

The notes on this!!

[piercingsandink]

Awww

[prepfordwife]

“Can i pick u up on thursday?” AWWWWWWW

[thingsthatbeginwithb]

lol he just wanted to buy her some superman pjs that werent on sale??! ~

[meleedamage]

can they see this right now??

OMG HE’S ADORABLE

[awriterlydancer]

Fuuuuuucccckkkk anxiety

[avilociraptor-deactivated202106]

"But they have long wait times in Canada!"

I am from the USA.

I have one of the most top-teir private insurance plans available.

I live in a city with four, count ‘em, FOUR hospitals.

I have been a patient of my pulmonologist for 2 years.

I scheduled my next appointment today. The first available appointment?

In three and a half months.

Please stop with this “you can see a specialist in a week!” Nonsense. No you can’t. Not with elite insurance and not as an existing patient. I’ve had to make specialist appointments as far as 8 months out.

Yesterday I made an appointment with my primary for a somewhat urgent matter. His next available? In 3 weeks.

I hate going to the emergency room because the average wait time is 4-10 hours. I ended up in a coma once because of complications caused by the wait time.

I am in the most medically privileged position a chronically ill person in the US can be, and the wait times to see my doctor are still very very long.

There are people in my country who can’t even afford to go to the doctor and people justify it by saying “but in Canada, they have to ~*wait*~.

We wait here too. We wait JUST AS LONG, and sometimes even LONGER.

But not everyone gets to wait, and they die because of it.

That disgusts me.

Universal health care now, please. And yes, my full time working, disabled, chronically ill self is more than happy to fork over taxes so that nobody goes without healthcare-even the people I don’t like!

[awriterlydancer]

Everything is so immensely difficult when you become chronically sleep deprived. My life is slipping out of my hands.

[titleknown]

Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…

[hopesterling]

This….

This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.

Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.

[withasmoothroundstone]

This explains a lot.  And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce.  Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.  

And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that.  Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid.  Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given.  It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.

[lizardtitties]

I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:

https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2016/01/06/healthcare-in-iceland-vs-the-us-weve-got-it-so-good/

[thebibliosphere]

Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.

I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.

It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.

The rest of the world is not like this.

Eat the rich. Resist.

[thewetblankie]

Yo @thebibliosphere have you checked the price of your drops on https://www.goodrx.com/ ? It doesn’t solve the root problem obviously but it’ll be easier to resist if you can see.

[thebibliosphere]

I use that for my other vital meds which I absolutely cannot go without, and managed to find some of them available at places like sams club and Costco for a tenth and sometimes even the hundredth of the price, so yes it’s a very valuable tool and I will reblog again just for this.

[brainstatic]

By the way, in case you thought I was cooking up a rare scenario in describing a person dying of a disease that could be cured with treatments 1000 feet away if they had insurance, I’m actually describing what happened every day in America before Obamacare. Every. Single. Day. People on chemo who reached their lifetime cap, who were deemed too expensive to save, begging for one more week to some dead-hearted bureaucrat who was under orders to kill the expensive ones. They got bonuses for saving the company money. You wanna know why I’m such a ride or die Obama stan? It’s not because he was cool, and it’s not because I’m in love with the surveillance state, it’s because he led us out of that vicious nightmare world into someplace with some semblance of humanity. And now these degenerates in the GOP want to lead us back in. Back into that pitch black night so a few billionaires can have a few million more to stash in the Cook Islands. That’s why I’d chop my hand off before pulling the lever for a Republican, and why I don’t have patience for civil debate. 

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I think you mean Cayman Islands, but otherwise yes.

[askawelfarecaseworker]

I’ve written about this before, but I had the misfortune of being over 18 and uninsured in pre-ACA America.

My choices were no insurance at all, or $700 per month for coverage that explicitly would not pay for anything related to my asthma - which could be anything. Sinus infection? Oh, that’s your asthma, not paying. Stomach flu? That’s got the word flu in it, which has to do with sinuses, so must be your asthma, not paying.

Not that $700 per month was going to happen ANYWAY, but that monthly bill would literally be for nothing.

Nowadays your parents can keep you on their insurance until 26 and my asthma HAS to be treated. And these monsters HATE that. They want me to die over an imminently treatable condition.

Don’t let that happen.

[houseofjonn]

[impatient14]

Golden Girls was more progressive decades ago than half of America now.

[advice-animal]

Capitalism

[advice-animal]

Biker gang

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

[micdotcom]

Tweeting was easy, governing’s harder.

[minato2525]

[standpoor]

this literally changed my mood 180°

[lunamoonlc123-deactivated201910]

IT’S FACE WHEN IT POPS

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3_<3

LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

[wan-shailu]

every time I reblog this my sister sends me a message to the effect of “thank u for reposting that cat video on your tumblr i have seen it so many times but it delights me every time because their paws are so gentle and graceful”

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[its-all-down-hill]

[resistdrumpf]

The US can’t afford universal healthcare, meals for the elderly or grants for scientific advancement, but there’s money for a $300 Million bomb for Afghanistan. Right. Got it.

(via resistdrumpf)

[stop-the-oligarchy]