THE DOC

I POST SHIT AND IM WORKING ON A MIXTAPE

[thedoctj-blog]

It really pisses me off that people who, as a kid, I looked up to and trusted, put such bad ideas in my head and that it continues, to this day, to affect me.

[thedoctj-blog]

No human should be given the power to destroy all of humanity

[thedoctj-blog]

the law is just a fucking piece of paper

[myowndopeness]

[thedoctj-blog]

our government is fucking stupid

[thedoctj-blog]

IF YOU CANT HAVE FUN WITH YOUR ART YOUR AN UPTIGHT ASS HUGE FUCKING NERD

[thedoctj-blog]

art doesn't change people it just validates you so do some shit that you enjoy

[justsomeantifas]

lmao without obamacare, i would have died at 23, a month ago. 

[justsomeantifas]

kidney stones are completely curable, but I never would have seen a doctor, because I never would have been diagnosed with them. I would have been in constant excruciating pain and never know why. 

I would get an infection in february 2017, and I would die, at 23. I would never know why I died, or why I was in pain, because I would never have been afforded the luxury to ask a doctor about my pain. 

I would have simply sucked it up, as not to fall further in debt, knowing I cannot afford medical attention, and therefore am undeserving of asking questions like “why am I feeling this pain?”

[justsomeantifas]

People say, the poor would go to the hospital in time if they thought they were going to die, and that they would deal with the debt they accrue from said visit. this is untrue. Many of us would rather die than be a financial burden.

Many of us feel we are never sick enough to deserve the expense of medical attention, to deserve the expense of seeing a doctor. Many of us die because of this. 

[headfoot]

I had pneumonia for three months and didn’t see a doctor until my grandmother took me because I couldn’t get off the floor from crying from pain. No, we won’t just up and go because you, not-poor insured person, would.

[justsomeantifas]

We will literally suffer because we believe we are too poor to deserve life itself.

[cripples-r-us]

I had a kidney infection and pneumonia but waited a full 7 days hoping I could just, I dunno, drink a lot of water and and sweat out the fever, I even managed a few shifts at my serving job, taking handfuls of advil to keep my 104 fever down. Finally my roommate was too worried when speaking was difficult and I hadn’t peed in a few days and took me in, I was so close to dying they encouraged me to fly my parents out.

When I was discharged I had a stack of new medical problems (like pulmonary hypertension from the pneumonia) as well as a fresh new perspective on the autoimmune disease I had not been treating. The drs told me if I don’t treat it it will kill me next time, that was the same year Obama put through the ACA and I could go on my parent’s insurance for a year or two all of a sudden, when my autoimmune disease had previously kept me from being able to get insurance.

It’s like obamacare saved my life and then some. I’m so scared to see the fall out when this garbage goes through with the gop, there’s so many like us.

I’d certainly be dead in the ground by now if the ACA hadn’t gone through when it did.

[northern-irish-lefty-deactivate]

Back when the NHS was introduced here, they found that most people making use of the new services weren’t those suffering from developing conditions. Instead, those who had to neglect their conditions for up to a decade or more and had just continued to deteriorate. It’s almost as if history repeats itself…

[the-greatish-gatsby]

My dad died of a massive heart attack three days before his health care for his new job fucking kicked in, I am so sick of people including my own family saying the affordable Care act is wrong, healthcare isn’t a privlage

[lost-in-the-broken-stereos]

People who are against universal health care forget that life expectancy before stuff like the NHS was so bad that Manchester once had a life expectancy of 18 for a working class male. Conservatives are literally pulling society and healthcare back in time because of their greed and ignorance.

[justsomeantifas]

dont think theyre ignorant, think they just want to kill poor people, but yeah

[odinsblog]

Obamacare is saving lives. Trumpcare will literally kill people for the “crime” of not being independently wealthy.

[mysharona1987]

[thedoctj-blog]

But what about when I get scrapes from thrashing too hard on my skateboard bruh

[thedoctj-blog]

Putting in work 💯

[odinsblog]

A Little-Noticed Target in the Republican Health Bill: Special Education

(by Erica Green)

With all the sweeping changes the Republican bill would impose, little attention has been paid to its potential impact on education. School districts rely on Medicaid, the federal health care program for the poor, to provide costly services to millions of students with disabilities across the country. For nearly 30 years, Medicaid has helped school systems cover costs for special education services and equipment, from physical therapists to feeding tubes. The money is also used to provide preventive care, such as vision and hearing screenings, for other Medicaid-eligible children.

The new law would cut Medicaid by $880 billion, or 25 percent, over 10 years and impose a “per-capita cap” on funding for certain groups of people, such as children and the elderly — a dramatic change that would convert Medicaid from an entitlement designed to cover any costs incurred to a more limited program.

The ability of school systems to provide services mandated under the federal Individuals With Disabilities Education Act would be strained. The law is supposed to ensure that students with disabilities receive high-quality educational services, but it has historically been underfunded.

Under a little-noticed provision of the health care bill, states would no longer have to consider schools eligible Medicaid providers, meaning they would not be entitled to reimbursements.

(continue reading)

[thedoctj-blog]

fdt

[liberaleffects]

[thedoctj-blog]

it takes a certain level of intelligence to fully realize how abstract humanity is

[micdotcom]

In May 1939, as the Nazis were tightening their chokehold on Europe, the United States government rejected the SS St. Louis, a German passenger vessel carrying 937 refugees who were trying to dock at the Port of Miami.

Almost all of those refugees were Jews fleeing violence in Germany and Eastern Europe, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The ship was eventually forced to return to Europe, where 254 of its passengers were killed.

On Friday, to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a pair of Jewish scholars — Russel Neiss and Charlie Schwartz — started tweeting the names of the people who were aboard the SS St. Louis, under the handle @Stl_Manifest. Read more

[beingliberal]

GOP Rep: Education Should Be a 'Privilege', Not a Right

“I believe education is still a privilege, and the kids who don’t want to be there are a larger distraction to the kids who do want to be there."

[thedoctj-blog]

ARE YOU FUCKING SLOW

[thedoctj-blog]

why is kicking kids out of school a justifiable punishment from the same people that claim education is the only way to change someone

[wpwgcartoons]

Nick Anderson Cartoon from 2017-05-04