I am still catching up on the week, so I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but the immediate response from Wyoming lawmakers to this ruling was to have a closed door meeting to talk about cutting the State Supreme Court from 5 people to 3. Yeesh!
The death panels exist. They are corporate death panels who tell you what is or is not covered. They are not fixated on the "level of productivity in society" but rather the profit to be made by the insurance company.
50ish years ago, I had a wax buildup in my ear. Dr. O, the old country doctor my mom took me to, rinsed it out with an ear lavage. I'm not even sure he charged my mom. If he did, it was just a couple of bucks. Just this past week it happened again. I managed to get an appointment with my primary care doc (amazing right?!) and she told me an ear lavage wasn't covered by my insurance! She told me it would cost $75 out-of-pocket or I could go to the pharmacy and get an at home kit.
Come on, death panels are real. They’re operated by insurance companies. Just a few weeks ago one at BCBS tried to off my disabled husband (the hospital where he was admitted, thankfully, cleared it up. This has happened multiple times since then accident that disabled him.
Ta, Robyn. I have no abortion story of my own, because I was always careful not to get pregnant. Even if one is in perfect health and eats right (an individual thing), hydrates adequately, avoids harmful substances (e.g. alcohol), and exercises, pregnancy is *dangerous.* No one was more straight-arrow than my late mother. She had six pregnancies; her first, a boy, was head injured at birth by a nurse (the hospital falsified all records), and lived to ten and a half with severe Cerebral Palsy (she thought he also had at least one stroke). My dad was forced to sell his business to his investment partner. Late Elder Sister was next. Then she miscarried another boy. Then came me. Next up, another boy, stillborn. As is Jewish tradition, my heartbroken parents had to name and bury him. Finally came Younger Sister, the only one of my siblings still alive. Should Mom have been prosecuted for the miscarriages and stillbirth? No!
One of my friends in Brooklyn had an abortion before it became legal. There were complications, and she awoke in a hospital bed with two FBI agents looming over her, asking, "Who did this to you?" She never told.
Another friend, this one male, grew up wealthy in Mansfield, OH. His family were farmers, and their wealth came from his grandmother. How so? She was the midwife and abortionist in Mansfield. And yes, if men carried the pregnancies, abortion would be a sacrament.
Amazing how “small government” suddenly remembers the Constitution the second it blocks forcing women to give birth. Turns out screaming about imaginary death panels had a side effect. Actual bodily autonomy. Oops.
Such a thousand metric tonne of lipstick on a pig bullshit in a five kilogram bag. Her spawn were the bane of — and to — existence in her poe-dunk town in Alaskia (sic) again, and again, and again.
🙏🏾Thank you for the Nice Times, Lady Robyn of Pennacchia! 🥰💖🥰💖 All the voices in my head and heart platonically adore you.
🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️And literal, hand to heart thoughts and prayers to that sweet, beautiful woman brought up on charges. Hoping and (agnostically) praying for her now until forever.
"Because back then they were all het up about imaginary “death panels” that, you may have noticed, never actually emerged."
Minor quibble. Death panels have emerged, only now they're about whether or not women with sepsis due to pregnancy complications or miscarriage should be given medical care.
I am still catching up on the week, so I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but the immediate response from Wyoming lawmakers to this ruling was to have a closed door meeting to talk about cutting the State Supreme Court from 5 people to 3. Yeesh!
https://wyofile.com/lawmakers-met-privately-about-shrinking-wyoming-supreme-court-following-abortion-ruling/
substack.com/@gtm1646309?
The death panels exist. They are corporate death panels who tell you what is or is not covered. They are not fixated on the "level of productivity in society" but rather the profit to be made by the insurance company.
50ish years ago, I had a wax buildup in my ear. Dr. O, the old country doctor my mom took me to, rinsed it out with an ear lavage. I'm not even sure he charged my mom. If he did, it was just a couple of bucks. Just this past week it happened again. I managed to get an appointment with my primary care doc (amazing right?!) and she told me an ear lavage wasn't covered by my insurance! She told me it would cost $75 out-of-pocket or I could go to the pharmacy and get an at home kit.
Health care in this country is broken.
Investigative work? She is proud that the clinic ratted the woman out and then the cops brow beat her into a confession?
MUCH PRIDE!
Come on, death panels are real. They’re operated by insurance companies. Just a few weeks ago one at BCBS tried to off my disabled husband (the hospital where he was admitted, thankfully, cleared it up. This has happened multiple times since then accident that disabled him.
I hate it here.
I still say that is Andy Warhol's painting of Jar-Jar Binks
Ta, Robyn. I have no abortion story of my own, because I was always careful not to get pregnant. Even if one is in perfect health and eats right (an individual thing), hydrates adequately, avoids harmful substances (e.g. alcohol), and exercises, pregnancy is *dangerous.* No one was more straight-arrow than my late mother. She had six pregnancies; her first, a boy, was head injured at birth by a nurse (the hospital falsified all records), and lived to ten and a half with severe Cerebral Palsy (she thought he also had at least one stroke). My dad was forced to sell his business to his investment partner. Late Elder Sister was next. Then she miscarried another boy. Then came me. Next up, another boy, stillborn. As is Jewish tradition, my heartbroken parents had to name and bury him. Finally came Younger Sister, the only one of my siblings still alive. Should Mom have been prosecuted for the miscarriages and stillbirth? No!
One of my friends in Brooklyn had an abortion before it became legal. There were complications, and she awoke in a hospital bed with two FBI agents looming over her, asking, "Who did this to you?" She never told.
Another friend, this one male, grew up wealthy in Mansfield, OH. His family were farmers, and their wealth came from his grandmother. How so? She was the midwife and abortionist in Mansfield. And yes, if men carried the pregnancies, abortion would be a sacrament.
I do love it when their own stupidity becomes their Achilles heel.
I beg to differ: there ARE, indeed, death panels. We just choose to call them "insurance companies."
Amazing how “small government” suddenly remembers the Constitution the second it blocks forcing women to give birth. Turns out screaming about imaginary death panels had a side effect. Actual bodily autonomy. Oops.
We do so too have death panels in the United States! They're called health insurance companies.
"Sarah Palin..."
Such a thousand metric tonne of lipstick on a pig bullshit in a five kilogram bag. Her spawn were the bane of — and to — existence in her poe-dunk town in Alaskia (sic) again, and again, and again.
🙏🏾Thank you for the Nice Times, Lady Robyn of Pennacchia! 🥰💖🥰💖 All the voices in my head and heart platonically adore you.
🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️And literal, hand to heart thoughts and prayers to that sweet, beautiful woman brought up on charges. Hoping and (agnostically) praying for her now until forever.
this is the direct product of allowing the uneducated to make laws about things they feel in their hearts
Or hear in their churches.
Sometimes the stupid accidentally delivers nice things.
Wyoming, hoisted by their own petard. Love it.
"Because back then they were all het up about imaginary “death panels” that, you may have noticed, never actually emerged."
Minor quibble. Death panels have emerged, only now they're about whether or not women with sepsis due to pregnancy complications or miscarriage should be given medical care.