Today I heard on a radio program that young women/girls are sympathizing with Mr. Brown, the singer who abused Rhianna, his girlfriend and I am appauled. By sympathizing with the singer the girls are saying that it is ok to condone battering and negating responsibility of the batterer. With all the strides that women have made in the justice system to support the rights of women in abuse situations, this is a set back. This is abhorrent.
I wonder how many of the girls who are supporting Mr. Brown are in abusive relationships?
Monday, August 31, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Octuplets egregious
On January 26, 2009, Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets, after already having six children. Suleman is unemployed, single and lives off of welfare. Having these children is unconscionable. It is difficult enough for a family carrying its own financial weight, that is, not on welfare, to be responsible for eight let alone 14 children. That this women has no financial stability and has opted to have eight children and to care for fourteen is extremely irresponsible and offensive to me.
To question whether she should have been allowed to have the procedures that enabled these pregnancies and to deliver the children, smacks of health care rationing. Who are health care professionals to decide how many children a woman can have and care for? Clearly, when the bulk of the care will come from the State and government, something must be done. But what?
Clearly, Suleman is making fun of our society and thumbing her nose at common decency. Here is a woman who needs to get psychiatric help. She has committed premeditated irresponsibilty. I viewed her website that asks for donations and letters. This is no el cheapo website. This website appears to have been developed by a professional-paid for with what?
To question whether she should have been allowed to have the procedures that enabled these pregnancies and to deliver the children, smacks of health care rationing. Who are health care professionals to decide how many children a woman can have and care for? Clearly, when the bulk of the care will come from the State and government, something must be done. But what?
Clearly, Suleman is making fun of our society and thumbing her nose at common decency. Here is a woman who needs to get psychiatric help. She has committed premeditated irresponsibilty. I viewed her website that asks for donations and letters. This is no el cheapo website. This website appears to have been developed by a professional-paid for with what?
Monday, February 16, 2009
Outrageous Drug Costs
2/04/09
Today, drug cost are astronomical. One medicine I take, Abilify, cost $25.00+ a tablet and I take one daily. When the drug manager of the Part D plan I enrolled in changed, my co-pays went from $3.00 for brand name drugs to $75.00 per brand name drug. When I hit the doughnut hole I expect to have to pay more than $500.00 per month for all of my ten medications from April onwards.
I am frustrated and angry. I am on a fixed income and supplement my income with freelance writing to the tune of $700 per year, sometimes. Still, I cannot afford to pay for my medications. I am angry at having to take the medications and I am angry at big Pharma for charging so much for the medications. There is no generic for Abilify available in the States.
So, I have applied for the patient assistance program of Bristol-Myers-Squibb to obtain free Abilify. I realize that I may not be eligible, but I plan to appeal.
I am only one of millions of people who are unable to afford their medications and people who have to often choose between meds and food and rent.
In a country where many phsician surveyed said they watch House, MD, Scrubs, or E. R., it seems to me that at least one episode ought to address this clearly financial and ethical issue.
I seem to remember the Kings County Hospital slidng scale and reduced prescription costs. Let me see I am eligible for the sliding scale and reduced costs.
Of corse, I have to chuckle and wonder if buying stock in Bristol Myers Squibb would make any of this easier to bear, but then if I could afford to buy stock I'd probably be able to afford the meds, but then maybe not.
Today, drug cost are astronomical. One medicine I take, Abilify, cost $25.00+ a tablet and I take one daily. When the drug manager of the Part D plan I enrolled in changed, my co-pays went from $3.00 for brand name drugs to $75.00 per brand name drug. When I hit the doughnut hole I expect to have to pay more than $500.00 per month for all of my ten medications from April onwards.
I am frustrated and angry. I am on a fixed income and supplement my income with freelance writing to the tune of $700 per year, sometimes. Still, I cannot afford to pay for my medications. I am angry at having to take the medications and I am angry at big Pharma for charging so much for the medications. There is no generic for Abilify available in the States.
So, I have applied for the patient assistance program of Bristol-Myers-Squibb to obtain free Abilify. I realize that I may not be eligible, but I plan to appeal.
I am only one of millions of people who are unable to afford their medications and people who have to often choose between meds and food and rent.
In a country where many phsician surveyed said they watch House, MD, Scrubs, or E. R., it seems to me that at least one episode ought to address this clearly financial and ethical issue.
I seem to remember the Kings County Hospital slidng scale and reduced prescription costs. Let me see I am eligible for the sliding scale and reduced costs.
Of corse, I have to chuckle and wonder if buying stock in Bristol Myers Squibb would make any of this easier to bear, but then if I could afford to buy stock I'd probably be able to afford the meds, but then maybe not.
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