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All to often, people will avoid seeing an optometrist for an eye exam because their eyes seem to be working "just fine".
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Many parents will rely solely upon a school eye exam that consists merely of a simple 20/20 test to determine their child's eye health. While better than nothing, these school eye tests measure only one aspect of the vision system. A child may suffer from a vision related problem but pass a 20/20 exam without a sign of a problem. This can often lead to the child experiencing learning difficulties and other serious troubles.
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Back by popular demand, Barbara Mackey, world renowned Psychic, will present a new workshop. We all enjoyed her last workshop on developing your intuition. Barbara's enthusiasm and personality were great fun!
Barbara will bring you through a guided meditation and some exercises to help you connect to and unravel past life experiences. These exercises can help you understand the reasons why you do and don't like certain things, understand what lies behind fears and phobias and why you connect with certain people instantly.
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From the Mayo Clinic:
Stress and hair loss can be related.
The most common type of stress-induced hair loss is telogen effluvium. In this condition, emotional or physical stress — related to a death in the family, pregnancy, severe weight loss or surgery, for example — pushes large numbers of growing hairs into a resting phase. Within a few months, the affected hairs may fall out suddenly when simply combing or washing your hair. The hair typically grows back when the emotional or physical stress is resolved, although this can take months.
This seems to be what I am experiencing. It seems that between the physical stress of the health problems themselves, combined with the emotional stress of them and work and the wedding, is making my hair fall out. The irony being that, I gotta tell ya, having your hair fall out is pretty damn stressful! At least it's only the diffuse kind and I don't have any bald spots...
I stayed home from work today. At some point during my ten minutes of breakfast, I started to feel very weak and shaky and dizzy. It was basically all I could do to get back into bed. I thought maybe I could go in for half a day, but no. I feel better now than I did this morning, but not better enough to deal with the subway, the city, the office.
In fact, getting too dizzy to sit up again, must lay down once more... living in this body is just a laugh riot.


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When I first went to the psychiatrist about my ADD-PI, it was because I had gone from like 70% coping to 30% coping and I could still function but only by working myself into a panic, which was harming me emotionally and not sustainable. At first buproprion helped a good bit, brought me to like 55%, but my ADD-PI has slowly been getting worse, I think maybe due to stress or maybe this is just the progression. Now I'm at like 45% on good days (which is better than the 20-30% of no meds).
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My memory has gotten worse, to alarming levels (I cannot remember what happened three days ago without help), and my distractability is terrible. I've found myself getting distracted while driving which almost never happens as I focus very hard while driving (only texting when stopped, not having any involved conversations). I will be doing one thing and suddenly realize I'm doing something else, without having made a conscious choice to switch tasks. I forget so many things: I'll go to a room and not remember why I'm there. If I do not put something on my calendar it will not happen, because I will not remember. My room is a mess, because I can't focus enough to get it tidy in one go and if there is a little mess then I don't bother to avoid making more. I was talking with Kylei and ze said I sound more ADD than before (ze's my most ADD friend, and actually the reason I realized I have ADD). I am constantly feeling like I have forgotten something, but I can no longer just reflect and remember what it is. I need real meds.
I have so many great little tricks for coping but they straight up won't work if I don't have the brain power for them. I keep forgetting that I need to eat, even when I am hungry. I think 'I should put that in my calendar' and then get distracted. This is after years of training myself to do stuff or set reminders immediately so I don't forget. I just have times when I can't even maintain focus for 15 seconds.
Also ADD makes a vicious cycle with any brain problems I'm having. If I'm stressed or depressed, that makes my ADD worse, which increases the stress or depression, which makes my ADD worse... I need ADD meds not only to stop the problems ADD causes by itself, but to stop other problems from growing endlessly.


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Have you ever before thought about accumulating craft for investment functions? If you are at residence or in your workplace take a peek around. Possibilities are actually that you possess some sort of craft dangling on your wall structures. You or some more chosen it since you require something to apply your wall structures and you just liked the exactly how this appears. Sometimes the price might have been a factor. Due to the fact that you will acquiring fine art, why not choose jobs that possess investment potential?
When this concerns collecting art most individuals feel inadequate or even discourageded. We have actually been converted that you require specific knowledge to be actually a fine art collector. The critics and also a lot of pros don't give any assistance either. Some are actually a lot more fascinated in offering their certain provings somewhat in comparison to teaching you the best ways to end up being an art enthusiast and a lasting collector.
Picking up fine art could be really financially rewarding and also satisfying. It is just one of the couple of regions where you can easily possess your typical cake as well as eat that too. Any individual can easily come to be a successful art collection agency. All it takes is actually to find out a couple of guideline, many of which prevail feeling. Given that you have read this far you have actually shown that you have good sense, currently all you should discover is a few basic policies.
I am actually certainly not writing concerning gathering the jobs from professionals such as Dali, Monet, Van Gogh and so on. For this type of gathering you carry out undoubtedly require specific expertise that comes from years from research study. Many from these works have shown their expenditure quality as well as offer as inspiration for our team to find the next excellent professionals.
That's where the enjoyable in fine art gathering is! You simply could be the some of minority who began purchasing the very early works of a performer which suddenly arrives. This is achievable! Envision momentarily having actually acquired some very early jobs from an unfamiliar artist named Picasso. Early in his profession his works were actually budget friendly and also easily on call to anybody. Currently, appear where the costs for originals have actually visited - some sell for millions. As well as given that our team have presently developed that you will be actually acquiring fine art in any case, why not acquire art as an assets? That recognizes, in 5, 10 or Twenty Years the artist could be the next Dali.
Collecting fine art for expenditure functions is a lot like prize searching. find out here Collecting art is really economical. Remember our team merely really want to purchase jobs from the yet unexplored.
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Have a fixed finances assigned for accumulating. Know how a lot you are actually ready to invest on an acquisition and just how often acquisitions will be actually made. If you are starting out along with only a couple of hundred bucks this doesn't create any sort of feeling appearing at works in the many thousands.
2. Buy craft that you like! Due to the fact that you are picking up for delight as high as commercial you must like the work. Don't bother just what any individual tells you concerning the assets possibility, it's happening your wall and you have to like it!
Action 2 does not always function and also there is a great chance that you may skip out on some extraordinary artists. Fine art is individual and also what one person thinks about as craft others might think its own junk.
4. GET ONLY ORIGINALS! Precursors are just one of a kind. Once a musician comes to be effectively understood there will definitely be lots of collection agencies bidding process but a single precursor will certainly be actually readily available.
5. Restricted Version Prints are glorified BANNERS. The framing is actually worth additional compared to the print. Severe debt collectors must stay clear of printings from any kind, even the prints from known famous performers. Likely the rates have been actually pumped up. They should not be acquired or even thought about for assets purposes. Meanwhile do not lose your opportunity.
6. Get a profile from the musician. Get as a lot chronicled info regarding the artist as achievable. A lot of artists will definitely provide you along with details about on their own, where they examined and also where their works have actually been actually shown. THIS Is Actually A NECESSITY, and this should be actually accompanied with the fine art. If they do not have a profile or standard info concerning themselves visit one more musician. Carry on!
7. Speak to the seller of the fine art. Attempt to validate that the work is an authentic and also certainly not a duplicate of an initial. There are actually several gifted musicians which manage to duplicate the jobs of effectively known artists. The apparent duplicates you will have the capacity to identify yourself (such as an oil of the Mona Lisa), others are more tough. Ask concerns and acquisition merely when you are actually fulfilled with the responses.
8. YOU Carry OutCERTAINLY NOT HAVE TO PAY THE ASKING COST! This is the exciting part. Bargain, deal and also aim to receive that below the asking cost. Rates are not established in rock. You simply may be able to receive that 50% or additional here the inquiring rate. You never ever recognize, some artists are actually genuinely depriving musicians. There is always area for discussions.
9. Maintain your invoices, called off inspections and some other written details that accompanies the purchase. This is actually typically ignored but that is a vital part from serious picking up, irrespective of the market value of the piece. This is a smart idea to document where you bought the art and the main reasons why chose that particular item. These files become component from the record from the art. Maintain them in a protected area, I could not pressure enough exactly how crucial this is for future evaluation.
Maintain the fine art out of straight sunlight, moist places as well as out from grasp off uncontrollable kids and dogs. Have effective insurance on valuable pieces and frequently upgrade your reports on several musicians you are collecting.
Now you possess the 10 simple tools of accumulating craft for income as well as satisfaction. The cause performers are widely known is that they are properly known. The additional people you inform about the jobs you obtained the more they are going to obtain to understand the musician.
Don't hold off, go out as well as begin collecting. There is merely one technique I understand from to end up being a seasoned debt collector and that is to start as a newbie.
Given that you will getting craft, why certainly not choose works that have expenditure ability?
And since we possess currently developed that you will be actually purchasing craft anyhow, why not acquire art as an investment? Collecting craft for investment objectives is considerably like jewel searching. Art is subjective as well as what one individual takes into consideration as art others may think its scrap. Currently you have the ten standard devices from accumulating fine art for profit and also enjoyment.
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ECP summons PML-N lawmakers over code of conduct violation in NA-120
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday issued a notification to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmakers MNAs Maiza Hameed and Rukhsana Kokab for violating its code of conduct after campaigning for the ruling party's candidate in upcoming NA-120 by-election.
"ECP has prohibited members of the national assembly from campaigning for the by-election," the notification said.
The ruling party has been fielding former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's spouse Begum Kulsoom Nawaz in Lahore's NA-120 constituency.
"Violating the code of conduct, you [Hameed and Kokab] have been campaigning for Kulsoom Nawaz," the notification added.
According to the notification, the duo had been dispatched a similar notice on September 6 but they had failed to respond.
This time they have been summoned on September 20.
The ECP also summoned the Punjab chief secretary to turn up before it on September 20 for a hearing into the violation of the code of conduct.
Reminding the chief secretary of being subpoenaed earlier this month, the ECP's notification stated that the political activities continued in the constituency despite its prohibition.
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A Digression on Language
The most commonly accepted theory, at present, is that languages develop with a certain type of mouth in mind.
This is obviously the case with languages such as English, with its many subtle uses of the lips and teeth; or Hmakk, which has an M in its very name. Languages such as these are difficult to speak with a beak or insectile mouthparts. Presumably, they developed in parts of the world where most people had lips, just as Kakaran originated in mountain clifftops inhabited solely by avians.
Over time, however, the various races of the world have wandered and mingled together. It is rare now to find even the smallest of villages inhabited exclusively by mammals, or avians, or reptiles. Even if they begin with different languages, those who share a common home usually come to share a common tongue. In many places, the speaking of English without lips, or Kakaran without a beak, has become only another kind of accent. Most avians cannot pronounce the lip-borne consonants so familiar to me - P, B, F, M, V - and I doubt I will ever manage the clacks and harsh demi-vowels of avian languages such as Hreet. However, despite our imperfect pronunciations, we rarely have difficulty understanding one another.
Those of the exoskeletal persuasion are somewhat more deeply separated. Many of them do not even breathe through their mouths. They have developed instead languages of chitinous clicks and hisses, or elaborate sign languages for multiple limbs. Many of these are more difficult for a person with only two soft-skinned arms to mimic. Still, we usually manage. Universal languages such as Sikelak help to fill in the most difficult gaps.
In addition, love is - and has always been - a great bridger of gaps. The marriages between vertebrates and invertebrates have created many surprising combinations. I have met many insects and arachnids who possessed, somewhere behind their scissoring mouthparts, the anatomy necessary to speak English clearer than my own. In the other direction are people such as the Hsshra tribe of the High Fields: silent, long-legged humans who breathe through elegant spiracles between their ribs.
Still, the villagers we met beyond the valley must have the most unusual language I've ever encountered.
We left the valley the night after the encounter with the saber-dingoes. We had no desire to sleep there; it would have surprised none of us if the pack had returned to attack us in our sleep. There was little we could do to keep them from tracking our scents, but we hoped that the cliffs would provide enough of an obstacle to dissuade them from following us. The climb was rather unnerving in the dark, but - largely thanks to Garnet's and Karlishek's night vision - we managed to fumble our way to the top with no more than a couple of scraped knees and elbows.
We were about to make camp at the top of the cliff when Garnet spotted a light on the horizon.
As exhausted as we were, the possibility of civilization - and of sleeping indoors, out of the chilly night wind, for the first time in weeks - was enough to get us walking again. No one said it, but I think we were all glad to put a little more distance between us and the saber-dingoes' valley as well.
As is so often the case in the Golden Desert, the light proved to be much farther away than it appeared. It must have been nearly midnight by the time we reached it. As we walked closer, we found that it was not a single light, but many - the glow of a small village full of dimly lit windows. The houses were low half-spheres of stone and clay. Only about half of them were lit, though, and we heard none of the chatter and bustle of an active village. We assumed the inhabitants were asleep for the night.
We walked into the middle of the village to find ourselves in the middle of market day - or, more correctly, market night.
The villagers were about Garnet's height, shorter than the rest of us. They were more or less humanoid. Their bodies were covered in downy white fur, except for their hands, feet, and faces; the overall effect faintly resembled mice or baboons, though their eyes were as wide as those of owls. They wore only simple skirts of pale brown cloth. If they were male and female, I never noticed any way to tell the difference.
Their most noticeable features by far, however, were the patterns on their faces. Streaks and blotches of bright colors shifted constantly across their skin, pinks and golds and emerald greens, like an endless fireworks display on every cheek and forehead. The colors glowed in the dark. There are many animals, such as angler-fish and torch-mice, that have luminescent patches on their bodies; most of them, however, can achieve only one or two colors each, like the repeated plucking of a single note. Each villager's face was a full symphony of light.
It was a silent one, though. In the entire marketplace, the only sounds were soft padding of feet in sand, the rattling of wagons, and the clinks and thumps of containers being moved. Not one of the people spoke. In the dark, with the rippling glow of all those silent faces, the effect was as eery as it was beautiful.
We had been staring for what I hope was only a few seconds when one of the villagers approached us. The body language was the same on both sides - smiling, non-threatening friendliness - but when we tried greetings in several languages, the uncomprehending smile on the villager's face didn't change. A few flashes of pink and blue passed over the smile and then went still.
It took us some time to realize that that had been the villager's greeting, or perhaps a question. The shifting colors were their language.
Eventually, we managed to convey by gesture that we had been walking in the Desert for a long time and were very tired. The villagers - we had drawn something of a crowd by then - gave us a sympathetic chorus of blue and lavender. The one who had first greeted us followed that with a flickering orange light in a green semicircle, like the cooking fires inside the dome-shaped houses, and led us to one of the larger ones. The ceiling was not quite high enough for us to stand up. Inside, we were greeted by another adult - the first one's spouse? - and a trio of tiny children as fluffy as owlets. Light flashed across their small faces as well, but they seemed to have difficulty doing more than two colors at once. Perhaps they were only just learning to speak. The whole family welcomed us in with many hugs and blue-pink greetings, and we soon found ourselves sitting on dusty cushions around a stone table, sharing slices of unfamiliar but tasty green vegetables. I looked in my bag and found a couple of slightly dusty candies from Thrass Kaffa; Mirenza rummaged through her pockets and found a motley assortment of nuts and dried fruit. All of these were enthusiastically received, especially by the children.
The name of the village, we were told, was an orange flash peppered with green spots. Our hosts' names were Expanding Blue Concentric Circles and Wavy Red Streaks On Yellow. They didn't introduce their children by name; perhaps, in a society where a person's name is an entire visual performance, children are given time to design their own. We introduced ourselves as well, but they had no more way to repeat our names than we had to repeat theirs.
The conversation around the table was quite lively. In fact, there were two conversations going on simultaneously, but since one was silent and the other was invisible, they didn't seem to interfere with each other.
Though nocturnal, the villagers must have been at least somewhat familiar with other sleep schedules - or perhaps they just accepted that we were tired, no matter the time of day. In any case, Blue Circles went out after dinner (for them, I suppose it was something like lunch) and returned with four extra blankets to spread across the sandy floor. We thanked our hosts profusely, hoping that our smiles and surreptitious yawns would convey the meaning our words couldn't. I dropped off to sleep quite quickly. All night, though, I had the strange feeling that the colored afterimages on my eyelids were trying to speak to me.
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Most people agree that space is the next frontier for earth's superpowers. Both China and India have launched vessels into space in the past decade and seem keen to catch up with the US.
Meanwhile, Russia is pumping more and more money into its program just to keep up. The Europeans are cooperating with the US in every way and try to make the ISS a success.
The question as to what should be thought of China's intentions in space was put before Republican John Culberson as he was sitting on a discussion panel during the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop held in Huntsville.
Mr. Culberson chairs the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that writes NASA's budget, so when he talks about space, people tend to listen.
His answer as to any possible US-Chinese cooperation in space was rather negative, unfortunately.
Mr. Culberson said: "I think it's fine to partner with the Europeans. They've been with us and do very very good work. Unfortunately, the Chinese government has proven to be one of the most aggressive in the world at, frankly, stealing intellectual property. We all need to understand with our eyes wide open that the Chinese space program is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the People's Liberation Army."
Certainly, the alleged stealing of intellectual property is a serious matter which Mr. Culberson said the Chinese did "at every opportunity they get."
In fact, the Chinese are so keen on getting their hands on US intellectual property or design of space material that NASA needs to "get every purchase of computer technology or telecommunications technology approved … to be sure that it doesn't include chips or hardware built in China."
Another NASA specialist, North Alabama Representative Mo Brooks (Republican, Huntsville) agreed fully whilst adding: "I put Russia in the same ballpark. It is certainly a geopolitical foe."
Asked with whom the US could do any future space cooperation, Mr. Brooks said: "Japan, India, Australia, Europe. We need to interact with them as much as we possibly can."


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I Love this comment on news.com.au's "Ask Bossy" about weight issues and self image:
Sometimes just considering change is the hardest thing. Sometimes when people say something that suggests they would like us to change, we are hurt and withdraw. This is natural…at first. But so is change. Sometimes we cling so tightly to the idea of who we are we are unable to see the golden opportunities to be gained by embracing change.
The "faithful wounds of a friend".
It's so important for our friends to speak into our lives… to allow our friends to speak the hard things that they see, that we don't see, that in a small way seek to impact our lives for the better.


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President Trump finally made good on his promise to yank funding from a key set of Obamacare subsidies, and Connecticut leaders are planning a counterattack.
Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and Rep. Sean Scanlon (D-Guilford) House chairman of the Insurance and Real Estate committee, are planning to consult with Congress to remedy what they call a bad situation for Connecticut insurers and consumers.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called Trump's step "an unmitigated disaster" and equated it to "sabotage" of the country's healthcare markets.
And on Friday, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said he planned to announce a lawsuit against the Trump action jointly filed with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Lori Lodes, co-founder of Get America Covered.
The Trump administration announced late Thursday night that it would immediately stop supporting the cost-sharing subsidies that reimburse insurers for reducing the deductibles and co-pays of lower-income Obamacare enrollees. Trump has been paying the subsidies on a month-to-month basis, unnerving many insurers.
What does this mean for the nearly 6 million people who receive these subsidies? And what about the more than 10 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare?
The short answer: Insurers must continue providing these cost-sharing discounts -- even though they won't be paid for them. That's because the subsidies are required by the Affordable Care Act.
However, many carriers already anticipated Trump would eliminate the funding and are hiking premiums substantially for 2018. Enrollees who qualify for premium subsidies -- which are separate and unaffected -- won't have to pay much more, though they may need to switch plans to keep their rates steady. But middle-class Americans who earn too much to get premium subsidies could get walloped by higher rates.
In Connecticut, Wyman and Scanlon said that some 44,000 Connecticut residents -- middle class single parents and business owners who qualify for the subsidies because they have trouble affording insurance -- are likely to abandon coverage altogether as premiums go up. That could ultimately drive up the cost of care for everyone, they said.
Moreover, Anthem's 31 percent rate hike and ConnectiCare's 27.7 percent rate hike have been approved in anticipation of Trump's action, but are expected to affect customers both on and off Access Health CT, the state's healthcare exchange, Scanlon said.
Jim Wadleigh, CEO of Access Health CT noted, however, that the majority of state exchange customers will not be impacted because they qualify for premium tax credits — which are separate and distinct from cost-sharing reductions and not impacted by this executive order. Premium tax credits mitigate the effect of the premium increases, he said. He also said the executive order will not change the health insurance plans or rates offered through Access Health CT for 2018.
A committee that has been studying the issue meets next week to strategize possible action, and expects to work closely with the state's Congressional delegation, Wyman said.
"I would be amazed if Congress doesn't do something," said Wyman. "It throws a wrench in the whole process. It's one of the worst things we've seen this president do yet."
Exactly how the executive order could disrupt the process for consumers and insurers is complicated.
Only a few months ago, insurers warned that discontinuing the funding for cost-sharing subsidies could bring down Obamacare. They, along with governors, health care providers and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, pressed Trump to continue making the payments to stabilize the individual market in the near term.
Now that the funding is terminated, insurers' reaction will vary, experts said. Many will continue offering coverage next year. Others, who didn't bake in the loss of funding, may try to raise rates or pull out. And plenty of lawsuits will likely be filed.
"It introduces a lot of chaos, but this doesn't threaten its future," Larry Levitt, senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said of the Affordable Care Act. "Those insurers that have built in [the end of the funding] are totally fine. They really are."
Insurers that assumed the cost-sharing subsidy payments would be discontinued requested an additional 2% to 23%, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis published in August.
Insurers finalized their premiums and signed contracts last month.
Carriers are levying the rate hikes in different ways. Some are spreading it out across all their plans, but others are limiting it to just silver-tier polices -- the plans eligible consumers must purchase to receive the cost-sharing subsidies. In California, for instance, insurers will levy a surcharge of up to 27% on silver-level plans.
Other carriers, however, did not build in a buffer in case Trump ended the payments. These insurers are in more of a pickle. Some may try to raise rates now, though this would have to be approved by regulators. Others may try to exercise a clause in their contracts that allows them to drop out if the subsidy funding disappears.
As for Obamacare enrollees, the impact also varies. More than eight in 10 are shielded from rate increases because they qualify for premium subsidies, which are not affected by Trump's move. Premium subsidies are advanced refundable tax credits.
Those who can't get premium subsidies could see substantial increases for 2018, which would come on top of big hikes levied for 2017. This would be particularly true if they select an insurer who raised rates across all their plans.
But unsubsidized consumers in some states could find a better deal if they shop for a bronze or gold plan offered by an insurer that loaded the rate increases into the silver policies. In Idaho, for instance, silver plan premiums will jump an average of 44%, but bronze plans are only going up 8% and gold plans 9%, on average.
Trump's decision, however, may not be the last word on the funding of the cost-sharing subsidies.
"So what happens now? Lawsuits, lawsuits, and more lawsuits," Nicholas Bagley, an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan, wrote in a blog post Thursday night.
Insurers and state officials could sue the Trump administration for ending the payments. Already, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is part of a coalition defending the subsidies, swiftly announced that the group would be taking action against Trump.
The cost-sharing subsidies have been at the center of a legal battle that dates back to 2014, when the House of Representatives filed a lawsuit against then-Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell. GOP lawmakers argued the payments were illegal because Congress never appropriated the money. A district court judge last year ruled in favor of the House, but stayed her decision. The Obama administration filed an appeal, which continued under Trump.
Ending the cost-sharing subsidy payments was only one of two moves Trump made Thursday to dismantle Obamacare in the wake of Congress' failure to repeal the law. The other was an executive order directing the Labor Department to study how to make it easier for small businesses, and possibly individuals, to join together and buy health insurance through nationwide association health plans. The department could give small employers more flexibility to offer group coverage across state lines, providing them with a broader range of policies at lower rates.
The aim of the order is to give Americans more access to lower-cost plans, but critics warn they may provide skimpier benefits. This is a greater threat to Obamacare's long-term health since it could siphon off young and healthy consumers from the Obamacare exchanges, leaving mainly older and sicker workers behind, Levitt said.
A CNN Money report is used in this story.
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"Barefoot Doctors of Rural China" by Diane Li
I am part of an experimental, emerging group of healthcare workers/folks interested in being healthcare workers, meeting monthly to develop praxis around disabilities justice, class struggle and healthcare.
Eventually, *with fingers crossed* we can hopefully facilitate an emergence of a network of rank and file, industry- wide healthcare workers collective in Seattle.
We have developed an ongoing database of readings around healthcare here. If folks have any suggestions, or recommendations, please let me know. I have been reading some pieces during my free time, but not in any structured way. Most recently, I have been trying to tackle Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis. It is a challenging piece to read, exciting in its outright criticism of the capitalist medical bureaucracy yet also somewhat disturbing the strains of anti-modernism. When, or if, I ever finish the piece, I will attempt a review.
Just today, I watched a short documentary by US AID about barefoot doctors in rural China, back in 1975. Barefoot doctors are doctors that are recruited from the rural areas to be trained in preventative and primary care skills. They served as the first line of medical expertise for people in rural China, who then made up 80% of China's population. There are certain interesting features about barefoot doctors from this documentary that I think are useful to think about as we imagine alternatives to the form of healthcare we have available in this country. All my observations are from watching this documentary and so, not super well researched!
First off, the barefoot doctors as described in the film, are nominated from the community. They are nominated in open meetings in rural communities and then approved by the local Health Board, subsequently trained for 3 -6 months, accumulating in 2 year training period broken up into phases. The trainings include knowledge of traditional chinese medicine and western medicine, and more importantly preventative and curative methods for local diseases and illnesses, specific to the communities that the barefoot doctors come from. Those who are interested, or talented, could get further training as full-time physicians in the cities. The barefoot doctor positions were predominantly women, making up more than 50% in some cases, and provided a role for women as healers and skilled labor in their communities.
The idea that doctors and healthcare workers need to be nominated and chosen from the community, I think is a very important concept. It assures their accountability to the communities that they serve. Today our doctors and healthcare providers are so distant, cold, functional and unaccountable. The legal system or the state steps in to try to assure accountability in their own fucked up and pretentious ways. Having doctors from communities who can be nominated out of their positions, I think creates a more effective system of ensuring that doctors serve the health of the people and begins a dialogue about how the structures of health provision and healthcare should be a communal effort, not simply based on individual morals and personality. Today, the Hippocratic Oath doesnt mean anything because doctors are out there just to get money and nothing holds them to that oath, except if you have the money and time to fight a huge, long, drawn out court case around doctor accountability...
Furthermore, barefoot doctors were not separated from their communities. It was seen as a role that was complementary with being a farmer or a housewife. In the film, the narrator talks about how farmers would work 40% of the time in the fields, and then serve their time as barefoot doctors for 60% of the time, and be paid the same wages for both kinds of work. This seems like a way to break down the mental manual labor divisions. In their work, the barefoot doctors were responsible for going around the community, being mobile, to treat and talk to members of the community. They had a somewhat more holistic vision of healthcare that didnt focus simply on medication. It also included teaching classes on sanitation, on the safekeeping of human manure for fertilizers, for replacing human manure with pig manure as safer options, and also conducted sessions where the community would come together to clear up clogged drains which were breeding grounds for dangerous mosquitoes and diseases. In addition, they were responsible for testing the levels of sanitation of well water.
The film also highlighted how the medication that was used in the barefoot doctor clinics were both a combination of indigenous, traditional chinese medicine (TCM), as well as western medicine and patients had the option to decide what kind of treatment they preferred. In the clinic backyards, the doctors would grow plots of herb that they would grind up as medication, and also offer community members payments for bringing in wild herbs which were rare or potent. People would make extra cash this way.
When it came to payment, the community would pool together money -- everyone had a small amount extracted from their "workpoints" or wages, and it would be pooled together to pay the barefoot doctor and the supplies. It was a form of Cooperative Insurance Fund which would be matched by the state. It seemed as if once people contributed to the fund, they would have access to whatever service and treatment they needed.
Having just discussed Critique of the Gotha Program with some of my comrades here, I think it is interesting to think about whether the kind of cooperative that existed was something that defied the law of value and decommodification of healthcare, or whether it also continued to uphold the law of value in more masked forms, under state capitalism.
The film presents the barefoot doctor system as a top down effort by the state capitalist regime, though I am skeptical of that. The way barefoot doctors are described in the film seems to me the way doctors/physicians have been presented in the traditional period drama I have seen before -- they were itinerant, worked also with their hands and not merely with their minds, and were also scientists of sorts. In any case, I wonder if the communications and interactions among barefoot doctors of different provinces and regions were facilitated by the state, or if they recognized themselves as a group of skilled workers who got each others' backs, a class by themselves.
I have been very interested in the state socialist feminism of the Chinese Communist Party and have a lot to say about it, and probably will in another post. On a side note, there is a documentary that I really love, called Out of Phoenix Bridge 回到凤凰桥, that describes the experiences of some rural Chinese women in present-day (well, 1997) Beijing who are there as migrant factory workers. It chronicles some of this history of state socialist feminism that the CCP imposed, and some of its strengths and weaknesses, and its presentation of women as productive capitalist workers who "hold up half the sky" but essentially a betrayal of the interests and liberations of many individual women.
Barefoot doctors in CCP China played a role where women could defeat the feudal forms of patriarchy that existed then, that oppressed and exploited women intensely, and provided a state-recognized role for women to play, where they were doctors and skilled workers. However, at the same time, that went hand in hand with an intense control of women's sexuality under the pretext of nation-building.
The film describes how the barefoot doctors had sole monopoly over access to birth control methods like condoms and pills, which they would only give to married couples. To these married couples they would hold sessions on birth control. In fact, the barefoot doctors would have records of the birth control methods that families in their communities utilized, and would check in on the usage. At some point, health and safety precautions become a pretext for state control over reproductivity and sexuality. They would also hold sessions on sexually transmitted infections (STI) and apparently China during that time did not have cases of gonorrhea and syphillis. I imagine though the darker side of this was the intense persecution of sex workers, whether they be in rural or urban areas. In addition, during the time when the One-Child policy was imposed, women who worked in the fields and factories where barefoot doctors serviced, would have their menstrual cycles be tracked by the doctors and be called in to take their birth control pills as assigned.
That, sounds a little freaky.
I recommend this 50 min long documentary! For good and for bad, it helps me think through what alternatives we need to build for healthcare!
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man such parallels. I read Illich's book a while back. I took a lot from it, but he takes his critique to crazy levels and borders on intellectual masturbation. Still it's like the extreme left of that debate which is super useful to understand as a provider. Illich is good in that he has an well developed concept of power, which is something that the marxist analysis is generally deficient of. I just got off work, but we should chat about this book sometime.ReplyDelete
I have the manual of the barefoot doctors translated into English I got in a small town lefty book store. Never read it yet, but there's lots of chinese medicine stuff. I'm suspicious about the whole community election process, but it is a great concept. Have you seen Xiou Xiou the sent down girl? The whole barefoot MDs thing was in the context of the cultural revolution and was embued with power, right out of illich. I'm a critical supporter of it and think it's an important lesson, as is Cuban's neighborhood MDs and health centers. still there's a lot of history of the ruling class in those state capitalist formations using institutions like medicine to reproduce ideology and deepen power relations.
I havent read much Illich or Foucault but it seems like what they are both getting at are pretty complementary, about biopolitics, power, control...Yeah when I am done getting through Illich's Greek I would love to talk about it. Any notes from the book you have that you can share? I would love to have some kind of guide to get thru it!ReplyDelete
Also, can you talk more about the Cuban healthcare stuff? I dont know anything about it.
Havent seen Xiu xiu, I will tho in the next few weeks! I love watching Chinese movies...
Have you read Elizabeth Perry's Proletarian Power? That book has guided my framework toward the Cultural Rev. I agree w your nuance take on the barefoot doctors and it seems very probable that the massline, serve the people politics operated with hierarchical state capitalist social relations.
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I am not sure Sean Scully makes complete sense with this argument, but I can relate to the idea that he tries to make 'everything happen, all at once'...we definitely play with time and space. compressing and stretching to create rhythms and sensations that relate to what we are attempting to communicate. ultimately a painting is a moment, luckily our perception of that moment is always changing.
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With imports rising and exports edging lower, the Commerce Department released a report on Tuesday showing the U.S. trade deficit widened more than expected in the month of October.
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Imports of crude oil shot up by $1.5 billion, while imports of consumer goods and other goods also showed notable increases.
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Two Wauwatosa, Wis., police officers responding to a call from a landlord about an unruly tenant wielding a sword Thursday night fatally shot the man after he refused to drop the weapon, Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber said Friday.
The officers were called to 8533 Glencoe Circle around 9:17 p.m. Thursday. Shortly after they arrived, the man came out with the sword and ignored multiple requests to put it down, Weber said. One or both of the officers — Weber couldn't confirm which — fired at the man, then tried unsuccessfully to revive him using CPR.
A police officer who appeared to be shaken was led away soon after the shooting, followed by multiple squad cars and more officers arriving, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Milwaukee police will investigate Thursday night's shooting, per an agreement that they will handle all of Wauwatosa's officer-involved shootings, Weber said.
According to a state law enacted last year, any death that occurs as the result of actions by law enforcement officials must be investigated by an outside agency. Wisconsin was the first state in the nation to pass such a law. The legislation came after years of work by the family of Michael Bell, who was shot and killed by Kenosha police in 2004.
Jon Retired LEO @ 7/21/2015 4:09 PM
He was repeatedly told to put the weapon down and ignored the commands. Any sword that I have seen would go clear through the human body and then some. He left them no choice. And no, when someone is coming at you with a weapon like that you don't try a Tazer which is only goods for 25 feet.