Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Love has no boundaries, The Love Project
Love is timeless so in view it's best to just be open about things.
Why just waste time, time away when you will open about things
when you get older. You will have to grab life by the horns sometime!
~~~~~New Sexual Revolution: Polyamory May Be Good for You
On Valentine's Day, images of couples are everywhere. They're buying each other diamond rings, making eyes over expensive restaurant meals and canoodling over chocolate-covered strawberries and champagne. But two-by-two isn't the only way to go through life. In fact, an estimated 4 to 5 percent of Americans are looking outside their relationship for love and sex — with their partner's full permission.
These consensually nonmonogamous relationships, as they're called, don't conform to the cultural norm of a handholding couple in love for life. They come in a dizzying array of forms, from occasional "swinging" and open relationships to long-term commitments among multiple people. Now, social scientists embarking on brand-new research into these types of relationships are finding that they may challenge the ways we think of jealousy, commitment and love. They may even change monogamy for the better.
"People in these relationships really communicate. They communicate to death," said Bjarne Holmes, a psychologist at Champlain College in Vermont. All of that negotiation may hold a lesson for the monogamously inclined, Holmes told LiveScience.
"They are potentially doing quite a lot of things that could turn out to be things that if people who are practicing monogamy did more of, their relationships would actually be better off," Holmes said.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-sexual-revolution-polyamory
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Teacher accountability and illiterate bastards
as there are other factors that change it's effect.
As one bad kid holds back the whole class. It's all connected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-stakes_testing
Like when I was in college in the 90's, whenever a kid walks in
the class with a cowboy hat on with a stupid face the whole class
says shit! They know he will hold back the whole class because
he doesn't have a clue what is going on and the college professor
has to spend more time on him to bring him up to speed because
the stupid kid will be asking questions the whole time in class.
That is not fair to the other kids that paid something like $500
for the class seeing their time and money go away!!!
A college instructor I had once, stopped class and took off to the
Deans office to complain about a kid being unprepared for college.
"He's holding back the whole class send him back to high school!"
So in high stakes testing holding Teachers accountable one needs
to ask what if a Teacher has a illiterate kid walk in their class?
The Teacher now knows the kid won't pass the testing and rains havoc
for the Teacher. It would be ethical for the Teacher to just grab their
stuff and quit, being the mind set of a failed high stakes testing model.
Well it's not fair to Teachers in small towns as the literacy rate is lower
because of the town not being brought up yet!
You make nothing so you have nothing. They are uneducated because they
can't afford it. It's like credit, it takes money to have credit you have to
buy something! "You can make it, but they can't afford it!"
Education cost money and you get what you pay for.
This is why parents want their kid to go to Harvard and not a JR College.
Their kid makes more money in life from Harvard than a JR College!
A point of natural selection thus cleansing the gene pool
having illiterate kids walk in to the class going for high stakes testing.
No! The Teacher and kids are brought down to their level also.
So with that in mind is why for me I look at Personalized Learning.
-----In the diverse and ever-changing world of educational technology, the term "personalized learning" seems to be everywhere, though there is not yet a shared understanding of what it means.
Many school officials, and companies scrambling to do business with them, use that omnipresent phrase to refer to efforts to tailor lessons to students of different ability levels an appealing concept, given the pressures schools face to raise the achievement of students coming to academic topics from very different starting points.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/10/22/09pl-overview.h34.html
Different starting points, as seen as a illiterate bastards walking in the class
holding the class back. No just work on them personalized because the kids have
different backgrounds.
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Losing health insurance mean more US deaths and labor force
Having more people loosing their healthcare is a big problem.
It will cause many people to die un-necessary out of not having
a way to fix their problem in a timely manner going into the
emergency room pushing the too late to fit it problem.
Homemade healthcare of superglue, fish antibiotics and peroxide, etc...
But those are the minor fixes there without insurance.
But the point is yes there will be more deaths with no insurance.
But I see it as a massive drop as the mass of people will drop their
insurance for a bigger paycheck being they work hard make the same pay.
The insurance will be dropped for the extra income in the paycheck.
That is like 180+ million working class people with insurance and
likely 60 million are child waged adults. They will drop for food money.
Also being that massive drop will pull down the whole healthcare system
as 60 million less paying consumers hit the insurance comps.
What will stand against that kind of hit?
The labor force, workers without insurance that will get hurt at work
sometime is a liability issue. They would go right to workers comp or
sue the workplace to pay the DR bill!
They will also be less productive as they don't want to get hurt at work.
Anyway you see it no healthcare is death!
Well really just ask what will the workers do with no insurance.
It doesn't take many poor to kill everything over more food money.
Healthcare is not a issue if you make higher wages.
Seems sad to kill healthcare for people that make low pay?
~~~~~Will losing health insurance mean more US deaths? Experts say yes
More deaths
Various studies have looked at whether uninsured people have a higher risk of death. The most cited was published by the American Journal of Public Health in 2009 and found that nearly 45,000 Americans die each year as a direct result of being uninsured.
Dr Andrew Wilper and a team at Harvard Medical School used two main datasets: they took a nationwide US survey of more than 30,000 people conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and checked it against the National Death Index, another national database collected by the CDC.
The two sets of numbers allowed the researchers to examine something called hazard ratios, which are a way to measure risk. For example, if a clinical trial finds that drug users are three times more likely experience a certain side effect, that drug has a hazard ratio of three.
In America, deep inequality can affect the usefulness of data like this. Lots of things can increase an American’s chances of being sick – being a person of color or being poor to name just two – and if those factors overlap with a lack of health insurance, it can be difficult to determine what exactly is affecting an individual’s risk of death.
Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people'
Read more
In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
The researchers found that a lack of health insurance had a mortality hazard ratio of 1.40. In other words, they concluded that Americans without health insurance were 40% more likely to die than those with it, even after taking into account the individual’s “gender, age, race/ethnicity, poverty income ratio, education, unemployment, smoking, regular alcohol use, self-rated health, physician-rated health and body mass index”.
The researchers calculated that in 2005, lack of health insurance resulted in 44,789 deaths of Americans age 18 to 64.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/24/us-healthcare-republican-bill-no-coverage-death
It will cause many people to die un-necessary out of not having
a way to fix their problem in a timely manner going into the
emergency room pushing the too late to fit it problem.
Homemade healthcare of superglue, fish antibiotics and peroxide, etc...
But those are the minor fixes there without insurance.
But the point is yes there will be more deaths with no insurance.
But I see it as a massive drop as the mass of people will drop their
insurance for a bigger paycheck being they work hard make the same pay.
The insurance will be dropped for the extra income in the paycheck.
That is like 180+ million working class people with insurance and
likely 60 million are child waged adults. They will drop for food money.
Also being that massive drop will pull down the whole healthcare system
as 60 million less paying consumers hit the insurance comps.
What will stand against that kind of hit?
The labor force, workers without insurance that will get hurt at work
sometime is a liability issue. They would go right to workers comp or
sue the workplace to pay the DR bill!
They will also be less productive as they don't want to get hurt at work.
Anyway you see it no healthcare is death!
Well really just ask what will the workers do with no insurance.
It doesn't take many poor to kill everything over more food money.
Healthcare is not a issue if you make higher wages.
Seems sad to kill healthcare for people that make low pay?
~~~~~Will losing health insurance mean more US deaths? Experts say yes
More deaths
Various studies have looked at whether uninsured people have a higher risk of death. The most cited was published by the American Journal of Public Health in 2009 and found that nearly 45,000 Americans die each year as a direct result of being uninsured.
Dr Andrew Wilper and a team at Harvard Medical School used two main datasets: they took a nationwide US survey of more than 30,000 people conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and checked it against the National Death Index, another national database collected by the CDC.
The two sets of numbers allowed the researchers to examine something called hazard ratios, which are a way to measure risk. For example, if a clinical trial finds that drug users are three times more likely experience a certain side effect, that drug has a hazard ratio of three.
In America, deep inequality can affect the usefulness of data like this. Lots of things can increase an American’s chances of being sick – being a person of color or being poor to name just two – and if those factors overlap with a lack of health insurance, it can be difficult to determine what exactly is affecting an individual’s risk of death.
Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people'
Read more
In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
The researchers found that a lack of health insurance had a mortality hazard ratio of 1.40. In other words, they concluded that Americans without health insurance were 40% more likely to die than those with it, even after taking into account the individual’s “gender, age, race/ethnicity, poverty income ratio, education, unemployment, smoking, regular alcohol use, self-rated health, physician-rated health and body mass index”.
The researchers calculated that in 2005, lack of health insurance resulted in 44,789 deaths of Americans age 18 to 64.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/24/us-healthcare-republican-bill-no-coverage-death
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Kids in hell and Poverty in America
In many states there is a decline. Schools are looking to have more budget cuts.
Reductionist! Budget cuts reduce to zero. And that helps no one!
"Lawmakers don't have a clue how to fund education."
http://ktul.com/news/local/superintendent-lawmakers-dont-have-a-clue-how-to-fund-education
And the lawmakers push for budget cuts, yet there are plenty $30,000
Dodge trucks, BMW's and Bugatti Veyron's driving around the
schools watching them crumble. Not really thinking that those kids
in those schools are the labor force.
Good news in Oklahoma is that the small oil companies want the taxes to go up.
http://newsok.com/article/5544264
And big oil also worried being the declining education.
They are pushing into the class room doing what they can to get
the kids to learn to work into the oil industry. The future of innovation and
growth is balanced on kids that may not be able to read or get a record for
shoplifting food because their parents are broke. Noted in small towns.
It's a bad thing to push in the classroom like that, it is like advertising,
but the point is why the effort to do so. The kids are looking bad getting
out of schools with low funding.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/big-oil-classrooms-pipeline-oklahoma-education
Also true and a good sign of growth with kids today!
The findings suggest Big Oil's environmental challenges and boom-to-bust nature
have created a negative stigma that will make it difficult to attract talent in the future."
Younger generations "see the industry's careers as unstable, blue-collar,
difficult, dangerous and harmful to society," the EY report concluded.
For instance, two out of three teens polled believe the oil and gas industry
causes problems, rather than solves them.
More alarming for oil execs, young people "question the longevity of the industry, as they view natural gas and oil as their parents' fuels."
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/21/investing/oil-jobs-young-people/index.html
Well you get what you pay for! The income equality is so high now
with the divide bad, the poor can pull everyone down with them.
"World's eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%"
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/worlds-eight-richest-people-have-same-wealth-as-poorest-50
Yes it is bad! Who can trust those moderate rich or middle class when the poor people
could bring them down. "The first 200 Chirons were sold before the first delivery of
the car. The base price is €2,400,000 ($2,700,000 at the August 2016 exchange rate),
and buyers are required to place a €200,000 ($226,000 at the August 2016
exchange rate) deposit on the car before retrieving it."
I don't think Bugatti can't even trust them!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Chiron
The poor taking many down with them? Well yes, kids in America is looking
to be declined. And those kids will be running things you know right?
~~~~~The report also pointed out national findings such as how the number of families living in high-poverty neighborhoods has risen slightly over the past decade. In Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico, at least 20% of children lived in high-poverty neighborhoods in 2015 as was the case in 2010 to 2014, according to the report.
"There were a few states in there that didn't take advantage of Medicaid expansion," she said. 'They didn't take advantage of the opportunities that the government provided over the past five years."
Other states had huge improvements in child health-care coverage. Between 2010 and 2015, California had a 67% decline in uninsured children, the highest in that time period. Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and South Carolina also had declines of over 50%, according to the report.
Speer said future health-care provisions may have an impact on the progress that has been made surrounding children's coverage.
"We definitely think that the gains we have made over the 10 or 15 years in covering kids and families are potentially at risk with the proposals that have been discussed by the president and congress," she said. "There's little doubt that there will be negative repercussions, especially for low-income familes."
President Donald Trump's proposed budget would cut the Children's Health Insurance Program by at least 20%, as well as Medicaid, which covers millions more kids.
"Kids are about almost half of all the enrollees in Medicaid, so kids would be disproportionately harmed there," said Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus, a nonpartisan advocacy organization for children and family policy issues. "And what we're talking about there is kids who are either poor or disabled, so you're really hitting the most vulnerable kids in society."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13/health/best-worst-states-children/index.html
Oklahoma is bad but is pushing for better. But it is dependent on the impoverished
environment. Food stamp cuts, Medicaid cuts, un-affordable healthcare pushing why
have it if you can't afford to use it anyway. These kind of things are tied together.
The one effects the others. Poverty is death to any growth as it rules.
http://newsok.com/report-shows-oklahoma-lags-nation-in-child-well-being-but-improving/article/5552891
Housing for the poor is a reflection of what you will have to look at in the future.
Labor force full of poverty is bad. How many middle class people work at Walmart?
What is Walmart going to be like with homeless workers working?
People these days live on less than 25 percent of their income.
75 percent of their income is spent on rent, utilities, car payments etc...
Living with no AC or winning the lottery is the only thing keeping things running.
Small towns make small wages noted why they have nothing because they make
nothing. Bigger cities have better wages but also with the cost of higher prices.
The wages are higher but many end up in the 50 percent of their income to live on
and that is not bad in view of small towns. But there are more small towns that
could hold back bigger towns in the lack of growth outside of town.
https://www.revvolution.com/rivet/so-this-actually-happened-tennessee-lottery-winner-somebody-direct-that-guy-to-500plus-hp-for-sale-198860/comment/1
"But millions of Americans are far exceeding that guideline.
One-third of households in 2015 were "cost burdened," meaning they spend 30% or more of their incomes to cover housing costs. Of that group, nearly 19 million are paying more than 50% of their income to cover their housing needs."
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/16/real_estate/rising-home-costs-affordability-harvard/index.html
So keeping the same system without thinking ahead is fail!
Albert Einstein - Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results.
Reductionist! Budget cuts reduce to zero. And that helps no one!
"Lawmakers don't have a clue how to fund education."
http://ktul.com/news/local/superintendent-lawmakers-dont-have-a-clue-how-to-fund-education
And the lawmakers push for budget cuts, yet there are plenty $30,000
Dodge trucks, BMW's and Bugatti Veyron's driving around the
schools watching them crumble. Not really thinking that those kids
in those schools are the labor force.
Good news in Oklahoma is that the small oil companies want the taxes to go up.
http://newsok.com/article/5544264
And big oil also worried being the declining education.
They are pushing into the class room doing what they can to get
the kids to learn to work into the oil industry. The future of innovation and
growth is balanced on kids that may not be able to read or get a record for
shoplifting food because their parents are broke. Noted in small towns.
It's a bad thing to push in the classroom like that, it is like advertising,
but the point is why the effort to do so. The kids are looking bad getting
out of schools with low funding.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/big-oil-classrooms-pipeline-oklahoma-education
Also true and a good sign of growth with kids today!
The findings suggest Big Oil's environmental challenges and boom-to-bust nature
have created a negative stigma that will make it difficult to attract talent in the future."
Younger generations "see the industry's careers as unstable, blue-collar,
difficult, dangerous and harmful to society," the EY report concluded.
For instance, two out of three teens polled believe the oil and gas industry
causes problems, rather than solves them.
More alarming for oil execs, young people "question the longevity of the industry, as they view natural gas and oil as their parents' fuels."
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/21/investing/oil-jobs-young-people/index.html
Well you get what you pay for! The income equality is so high now
with the divide bad, the poor can pull everyone down with them.
"World's eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%"
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/worlds-eight-richest-people-have-same-wealth-as-poorest-50
Yes it is bad! Who can trust those moderate rich or middle class when the poor people
could bring them down. "The first 200 Chirons were sold before the first delivery of
the car. The base price is €2,400,000 ($2,700,000 at the August 2016 exchange rate),
and buyers are required to place a €200,000 ($226,000 at the August 2016
exchange rate) deposit on the car before retrieving it."
I don't think Bugatti can't even trust them!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Chiron
The poor taking many down with them? Well yes, kids in America is looking
to be declined. And those kids will be running things you know right?
~~~~~The report also pointed out national findings such as how the number of families living in high-poverty neighborhoods has risen slightly over the past decade. In Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico, at least 20% of children lived in high-poverty neighborhoods in 2015 as was the case in 2010 to 2014, according to the report.
"There were a few states in there that didn't take advantage of Medicaid expansion," she said. 'They didn't take advantage of the opportunities that the government provided over the past five years."
Other states had huge improvements in child health-care coverage. Between 2010 and 2015, California had a 67% decline in uninsured children, the highest in that time period. Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and South Carolina also had declines of over 50%, according to the report.
Speer said future health-care provisions may have an impact on the progress that has been made surrounding children's coverage.
"We definitely think that the gains we have made over the 10 or 15 years in covering kids and families are potentially at risk with the proposals that have been discussed by the president and congress," she said. "There's little doubt that there will be negative repercussions, especially for low-income familes."
President Donald Trump's proposed budget would cut the Children's Health Insurance Program by at least 20%, as well as Medicaid, which covers millions more kids.
"Kids are about almost half of all the enrollees in Medicaid, so kids would be disproportionately harmed there," said Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus, a nonpartisan advocacy organization for children and family policy issues. "And what we're talking about there is kids who are either poor or disabled, so you're really hitting the most vulnerable kids in society."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13/health/best-worst-states-children/index.html
Oklahoma is bad but is pushing for better. But it is dependent on the impoverished
environment. Food stamp cuts, Medicaid cuts, un-affordable healthcare pushing why
have it if you can't afford to use it anyway. These kind of things are tied together.
The one effects the others. Poverty is death to any growth as it rules.
http://newsok.com/report-shows-oklahoma-lags-nation-in-child-well-being-but-improving/article/5552891
Housing for the poor is a reflection of what you will have to look at in the future.
Labor force full of poverty is bad. How many middle class people work at Walmart?
What is Walmart going to be like with homeless workers working?
People these days live on less than 25 percent of their income.
75 percent of their income is spent on rent, utilities, car payments etc...
Living with no AC or winning the lottery is the only thing keeping things running.
Small towns make small wages noted why they have nothing because they make
nothing. Bigger cities have better wages but also with the cost of higher prices.
The wages are higher but many end up in the 50 percent of their income to live on
and that is not bad in view of small towns. But there are more small towns that
could hold back bigger towns in the lack of growth outside of town.
https://www.revvolution.com/rivet/so-this-actually-happened-tennessee-lottery-winner-somebody-direct-that-guy-to-500plus-hp-for-sale-198860/comment/1
"Nearly 39 million households can't afford their housing, according to the annual
State of the Nation's Housing Report from Harvard's Joint Center for
Housing Studies."
"Experts generally advise budgeting about 30% of monthly income for rent or mortgage costs."
One-third of households in 2015 were "cost burdened," meaning they spend 30% or more of their incomes to cover housing costs. Of that group, nearly 19 million are paying more than 50% of their income to cover their housing needs."
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/16/real_estate/rising-home-costs-affordability-harvard/index.html
So keeping the same system without thinking ahead is fail!
Albert Einstein - Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results.
Monday, June 19, 2017
Normality, Psychosis, Butterscotch waterfall and Julio
in the 90's, I took many classes and been in group talks
over many subjects, ending with the notion everyone has
their own type of normality.
Normality, Psychosis, Butterscotch waterfall and Julio? Go see the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpub9gciWBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4FQoznrVwU
I really did not like the DSM's they seemed conservatarded even in the
90's the cure was pushed to drug, drug. I am a Humanistic Psychology type,
so my view is not good on how Psychology is in my state by the masses.
Is pushing the drugs greed? More exposing the problem in therapy is needed
than concealing it with medication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_psychology
More time in therapy needs to be spent in revealing than concealing!
"The foundation of genuine helping lies in being ordinary. Nothing special.
We can only offer ourselves, neither more nor less, to others we have in fact
nothing else to give.Anything more is conceit; anything less is robbing those
in distress. Helping demands wholeheartedness, but people find it hard to
give of themselves to others. Why? In essence we are afraid to offer ourselves
for fear we will prove insufficient, and if all that we have and are is not enough,
what then? We are afraid to risk using simply our own warmth and caring,
and as a result the thousands of therapy techniques
which are becoming increasingly popular are intended to conceal
rather than reveal."
http://infed.org/mobi/helping-relationships-principles-theory-and-practice
Psychiatrist Allen Frances has been critical of proposed revisions
to the DSM-5. In a 2012 New York Times editorial, Frances warned that
if this DSM version is issued unamended by the APA, it will
“medicalize normality and result in a glut of unnecessary and harmful
drug prescription.” In a December 2, 2012 blog post in Psychology Today,
Frances lists the ten “most potentially harmful changes” to DSM-5:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders
It is the fact your degree is only valued on the paper it's printed on,
and the masses out there have Master hillbilly degrees in Psychology and
push such harmful resolve to drug the patient first, being how the
pharmaceutical money flows they say "Your, stupid, your stupid!"
if you go against the BS!
Or it could be the country thinking a Special kind of stupid, backward
thinking, your smart and that makes you stupid. Your considerate so that
makes you intrusive. Country thinking relating to their master degree at their
redneck college they went to so they can say "I'm just as smart as you!"
without being in the fire learning what is norm! In a high up judgmental
position without being in life, in the real type life is stupid.
Sort of like doing your master's without a thesis then to pop up like you
are the smartest thing on the block in for it for the money.
Doesn't make it so! It's like going to a "McDonald college" vs Berkeley.
"Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know
what you'll find." James Carville
http://izquotes.com/quote/217210
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-doing-your-masters-with-and-without-a-thesis
Where is this going? Lets see where this goes and that is the point!
Usually one gets out in the world and sees what they learned is BS
and learns better. Education starts after school, to see where it goes!
Your diploma is like a Olympic torch, it's a start of your education!
Like your drivers license, just because you have one doesn't mean you
know how to drive a car. You learn down the road!
I dated a lady hairdresser in the late 1990's that smoked weed and liked
to go at gay bars being she had a hard life and a death treat from a biker gang
and she felt safe at a gay bar that was her security. I'm not gay, she was not gay
it was her security to go there. On the first date at a nice restaurant she went
to the bathroom and threw-up everywhere. Nervous, high etc she got sick,
so I took that cougar back to her environment which was the gay bar and all
was ok it's her normality there.
Also had a lady tell me "We like you." "My other personality likes you and I
trust her so I'm ok with it!" Also had a co-worker that had a
Corpus Callosotomy done. With me all of those things I seen is called life
experiences that I can relate by my education I had and seen this stuff with
my own eyes and I recognize what that is.
To make anything of value you have to get out there and do it!
You can't win the lottery if you don't but a ticket!
Get yourself out of the dark ages, you can't see much in the dark!
http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2013/11/get-out-of-your-dark-ages.html
My Psychology is from the 90' but all relates to the now.
Pointless over internet use is an addiction and paranoia on who says what
about you on Facebook is all the same as it ever was, it never will change.
This story is not meant to be inflammatory just point noted factual because
patients are human not zombies needing medication. I do say we need more
Humanistic Psychology these days. Medicines are needed but to cure not deal
with it, unless you are in that state of pure hell in that case you might need to
be on such medication to nock off that top a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyJn_3LkE8w
There are other ways of getting a cure like Psychedelic Therapy. It would be
the shock to cure many without the life time of Medicines. It's worth looking at
when looking at the way life is for many with the current mindset of
psychology today!
So what is normal? It's just to the fact of if people call you crazy then the
judgement of such is noted to be an issue of how educated the people around
you are. A norm in LA is not the norm in Alabama! People that call others crazy
in a bad way, don't understand life themselves.
But also normal should not be detrimental for ones self in the reasoning of their
self image reflecting their place in the world. Have you ever been to some town
and ran across those few people that dress up like a Pirate, a guy in a dress or
a 40 year old Gothic lady. Every town has someone, but the point is what is
behind it. Is it to get attention? A stagnate mindset not willing to grow out of it.
A guy in a dress might be stressed to be who he is, not willing to make it happen
because the operation cost too much or other factors.
So in what case it might be the point is to ask what is behind it, why do you do
the things you do! It's ok to do them but to know if it's not detrimental to you!
~~~~~Because the more life goes on, the more “normal” feels out of reach.
So I’ve chosen to accept the unconventional and actually feed off of it.
No one needs to approve of my life but me.
Yes, at times I have to remind myself of the benefits of the unbeaten path,
but I’ve given myself the freedom to create my own “normal.”
And you know what? It has helped me live in the moment, embrace opportunity,
and accept what is. I’m listening to myself – not the “shoulds” about the life
I want to lead. To be clear, I’m not against the normal life by any means.
I’m sure one day I’ll be in a version of it myself. But I do want to emphasize
that in reality, there is no normal life. There is just life.
And I am sure as hell living it!
http://selfhelpshoppe.com/2014/01/27/what-is-normal
"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to
that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream
and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick.
This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted,
who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done.
By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed."
Terence McKenna
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/355306-nature-loves-courage-you-make-the-commitment-and-nature-will
"Feeling unstable having crazy thoughts testing your limitations all the time."
Is growth it's a part in your life finding who you are.
It's finding out your normality was never normal in the first place.
So you push on to find out your own self!
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Privatization, Oklahoma's Medicaid agency opts to cancel
Anytime you hear the word Privatization you should know
it means they are for profit in a climate facing more growth
of people in need. Also facing Trumps Medicaid cuts etc.
To privatize is to take away from people because they are
for profit to make money not loose it in the light of them loosing
money with Trumps's cuts!
"The fixed payments provide an incentive to cover only the most effective
treatments and encourage patients to live healthier lives."
Just do without and eat more kale!
"This statewide model would have saved money for Oklahoma with a program that would better serve these individuals, providing a greater continuity of care and services that would have kept them out of the hospital and in their own homes. Any uncertainty of funding would make adopting this model all the more important," said David, R-Porter."
Just stay home we can't cover that, well... You have insurance but can't afford to use it
anyway so...
This is a good thing for Oklahoma not doing this. But on the Federal side there
are cuts coming. How are any of these people going to have any spending money?
I feel sorry about all those new stores in town! Might we raise the pay so the
poor could just pull out their checkbook and pay for healthcare themselves,
not use their food money for it being they make the same pay.
Why kill healthcare over people making children wages?
Why are there adults with children making children wages?
~~~~~Asked to delay privatization, Oklahoma's Medicaid agency opts to cancel
Some people in the health care industry are relieved that privatization of an Oklahoma Medicaid program has ground to a halt for lack of funds.
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority canceled the bidding process for companies vying to manage services for the aged, blind and disabled population. The authority oversees SoonerCare, which is Oklahoma's Medicaid system that also provides health coverage for children and low-income people.
Under managed care coordination, one or more for-profit companies cover doctor's visits, prescriptions, long-term care or any other eligible cost while receiving payments from the state. The fixed payments provide an incentive to cover only the most effective treatments and encourage patients to live healthier lives.
Brett Coble, board president for the Oklahoma Association of Health Care Providers, said he hoped the authority would nix the idea.
“One of the chief reasons was the up-front cost to the state that we simply can't afford in the financial state we're in,” said Coble.
Estimates showed the state would have to pay more than $100 million extra in startup costs during the first couple of years as the service transferred to private management.
Coble also said new federal regulations threatened funding for other programs if Oklahoma switched to a managed Medicaid system. Those regulations were introduced after Oklahoma lawmakers ordered a request for managed care proposals in 2015.
“Those things put a substantial amount of federal dollars that not only nursing homes rely upon, but also a lot of our hospitals and funding that teaching hospitals use — it puts all that at risk,” said Coble, whose association represents nursing homes.
Becky Pasternik-Ikard, CEO of the Health Care Authority, said the decision was made in the best interests of the state because there was uncertainty in both state and federal funding.
“In addition to the funds needed to maintain services at current levels, the agency requested approximately $52 million to fund the care coordination model,” Pasternik-Ikard said. “The additional request was not funded; therefore, the agency is unable to move forward with the (request for proposals).”
The process cannot be restarted, and an agency spokeswoman said it's unclear whether the Legislature would have to pass another bill authorizing it.
Delaying implementation drew support this year from most lawmakers and even Gov. Mary Fallin, who asked the authority to wait a year. A resolution introduced at the state Capitol last month would have directed the authority to pause the process indefinitely, but it wasn't given a hearing in the Senate.
The Senate's Appropriations chair, Kim David, said Thursday she disagreed with the authority's reasons for canceling implementation.
“This statewide model would have saved money for Oklahoma with a program that would better serve these individuals, providing a greater continuity of care and services that would have kept them out of the hospital and in their own homes. Any uncertainty of funding would make adopting this model all the more important,” said David, R-Porter.
David also questioned the claim that, in the first year alone, it would cost the state $52 million to fund it.
“These are individuals we're already caring for, and in talking to other states, they encountered no such need for additional funding when they moved to this system,” she said.
But another senator, Rob Standridge, said data from other states shows that privately managed Medicaid is a financial drain when companies come back saying they aren't being paid enough to run the programs.
“I didn't see anything in the three-year analysis where we would experience any significant savings, and I think some of the states around us made us nervous whether we could ever experience savings,” said Standridge, R-Norman.
http://newsok.com/asked-to-delay-privatization-oklahomas-medicaid-agency-opts-to-cancel/article/5553169
it means they are for profit in a climate facing more growth
of people in need. Also facing Trumps Medicaid cuts etc.
To privatize is to take away from people because they are
for profit to make money not loose it in the light of them loosing
money with Trumps's cuts!
"The fixed payments provide an incentive to cover only the most effective
treatments and encourage patients to live healthier lives."
Just do without and eat more kale!
"This statewide model would have saved money for Oklahoma with a program that would better serve these individuals, providing a greater continuity of care and services that would have kept them out of the hospital and in their own homes. Any uncertainty of funding would make adopting this model all the more important," said David, R-Porter."
Just stay home we can't cover that, well... You have insurance but can't afford to use it
anyway so...
This is a good thing for Oklahoma not doing this. But on the Federal side there
are cuts coming. How are any of these people going to have any spending money?
I feel sorry about all those new stores in town! Might we raise the pay so the
poor could just pull out their checkbook and pay for healthcare themselves,
not use their food money for it being they make the same pay.
Why kill healthcare over people making children wages?
Why are there adults with children making children wages?
~~~~~Asked to delay privatization, Oklahoma's Medicaid agency opts to cancel
Some people in the health care industry are relieved that privatization of an Oklahoma Medicaid program has ground to a halt for lack of funds.
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority canceled the bidding process for companies vying to manage services for the aged, blind and disabled population. The authority oversees SoonerCare, which is Oklahoma's Medicaid system that also provides health coverage for children and low-income people.
Under managed care coordination, one or more for-profit companies cover doctor's visits, prescriptions, long-term care or any other eligible cost while receiving payments from the state. The fixed payments provide an incentive to cover only the most effective treatments and encourage patients to live healthier lives.
Brett Coble, board president for the Oklahoma Association of Health Care Providers, said he hoped the authority would nix the idea.
“One of the chief reasons was the up-front cost to the state that we simply can't afford in the financial state we're in,” said Coble.
Estimates showed the state would have to pay more than $100 million extra in startup costs during the first couple of years as the service transferred to private management.
Coble also said new federal regulations threatened funding for other programs if Oklahoma switched to a managed Medicaid system. Those regulations were introduced after Oklahoma lawmakers ordered a request for managed care proposals in 2015.
“Those things put a substantial amount of federal dollars that not only nursing homes rely upon, but also a lot of our hospitals and funding that teaching hospitals use — it puts all that at risk,” said Coble, whose association represents nursing homes.
Becky Pasternik-Ikard, CEO of the Health Care Authority, said the decision was made in the best interests of the state because there was uncertainty in both state and federal funding.
“In addition to the funds needed to maintain services at current levels, the agency requested approximately $52 million to fund the care coordination model,” Pasternik-Ikard said. “The additional request was not funded; therefore, the agency is unable to move forward with the (request for proposals).”
The process cannot be restarted, and an agency spokeswoman said it's unclear whether the Legislature would have to pass another bill authorizing it.
Delaying implementation drew support this year from most lawmakers and even Gov. Mary Fallin, who asked the authority to wait a year. A resolution introduced at the state Capitol last month would have directed the authority to pause the process indefinitely, but it wasn't given a hearing in the Senate.
The Senate's Appropriations chair, Kim David, said Thursday she disagreed with the authority's reasons for canceling implementation.
“This statewide model would have saved money for Oklahoma with a program that would better serve these individuals, providing a greater continuity of care and services that would have kept them out of the hospital and in their own homes. Any uncertainty of funding would make adopting this model all the more important,” said David, R-Porter.
David also questioned the claim that, in the first year alone, it would cost the state $52 million to fund it.
“These are individuals we're already caring for, and in talking to other states, they encountered no such need for additional funding when they moved to this system,” she said.
But another senator, Rob Standridge, said data from other states shows that privately managed Medicaid is a financial drain when companies come back saying they aren't being paid enough to run the programs.
“I didn't see anything in the three-year analysis where we would experience any significant savings, and I think some of the states around us made us nervous whether we could ever experience savings,” said Standridge, R-Norman.
http://newsok.com/asked-to-delay-privatization-oklahomas-medicaid-agency-opts-to-cancel/article/5553169
There is no point
Really there is no point, to mock Trump. I am sure he as many are paranoid and
is on the internet looking at what people say about him. So really what good does it do?
What good has it done from all the other times in our past? It's better to just move on
the action of doing something about it!
~~~~~Michael Moore says there is no point mocking Donald Trump but
instead people should resist
Michael Moore said there is no point laughing at Donald Trump for not
being good at his job but instead urged his opponents to focus on
growing the resistance movement. instead people should resist
Discussing Mr Trump’s 100 days in office, the documentary and filmmaker said the fact the US President had been barred from passing a number of policies into law was a good thing and should not be laughed at.
Speaking to Chris Hayes on MSNBC he said: “Nobody should feel glib. Nobody should be laughing.
“What good does it do us and our end to be even laughing at Trump for all his goofiness and all is big promises if he doesn’t come through with it and at the same time we are kind of happy he hasn’t been able to do a whole lot - so that’s a good thing.”
Mr Hayes told Mr Moore he found himself rooting for Mr Trump to handle the situation in North Korea well and avoid a nuclear war.
"He will navigate us toward [nuclear war]. Our only hope is that, please Pentagon if you're watching, the football, the nuclear football ... I'm guessing they don't have the codes in there. They're never going to put the real codes in there. I hope," he said.
Mr Moore also said the first 100 days of the Trump administration were less about what the US President's successes and failures than about the build-up of a powerful civil society movement.
“Everybody tonight is talking about Trump’s first 100 days but what about the first 100 days of the resistance,” he said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-moore-chris-hayes-msnbc-donald-trump-us-president-100-days-resistance-a7709751.html
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