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Will SOMEBODY please DO SOMETHING about this crazy U.S. healthcare thing? It's on every thread, every day and people are DYING because they can't afford to go to hospital. It really grinds my gears. Healthcare is a basic human need. Somebody step up. I'm looking at you Joe.

My sister- first got cancer 2018, after intense medical intervention went on to get the all clear but was diagnosed with a DIFFERENT cancer not a year later. Again she's now completely in remission. The first time she came too close to death than I care to fully remember or admit- the poor woman doesn't even turn 30 until later this year! Anyway, she never had to pay a single penny for anything (except hospital parking) and that includes some highly experimental procedures when all else was failing. Even her mortgage repayments were covered by the sick-pay from her employer. Say what you like about the NHS- we'd be lost in the UK without it.

US is a 3rd world country if you really think about it.

I spent 8 weeks in the hospital in the UK due to a complicated twin pregnancy. The only expense was the parking when people came to visit. American health care makes the rest of the world very sad. They deserve better.

I get it. Insurance companies are the easiest target. But can we also focus on why healthcare is so expensive to begin with? We are asking the wrong questions. Our doctors are the highest paid in the world and major hospital chains are publicly traded on the stock market and profits are paid to shareholders. And don’t get me started on pharma and medical supply companies.

That is why kids beauty peagents should be banned.

Saw a tumblr post once that was like the solution to women being so strongly valued based of of sexiness isn't expanding the category of f**able but instead to stop putting so much vale sexiness.

When my niece was a little girl, probably 6-7, I had promised to buy her a beautiful twirly dress for her birthday. I was quite surprised to get to the dress shop and find black sequined cocktail dresses for the elementary school set. Of course my niece wanted one of the black sparkly numbers, and it was all I could do to redirect her to something age appropriate. I spent the trip home wondering why exactly six year olds need cocktail wear.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'm not sure who said that but it is so true.

I think a big problem, too, is this idea of 'natural' beauty. There are so many celebs who have professionals putting on their 'natural' makeup look then posting selfies saying they aren't wearing any, or men will point to it and tell women how beautiful they are w/o makeup when they simply don't realize this is not no makeup. So then girls will go actually natural and think it's fine but guys will treat them like they've 'let themselves go' or that they're somehow just uglier or something. Feeling pretty should be fun and improve your self esteem but it shouldn't be a goal in life or equal some sort of success. Alternatively we have these gorgeous girls who are falling apart when they realize that they still have to get jobs and aren't just going to make it being 'pretty' as if that is all you have to do (although in our society as it is, I guess that's what we're teaching people in some cases...)

I remember my therapist telling me (when I was severely depressed), that whatever I did, I should not try to kill myself with paracetamol. She'd just had a patient who tired, but was found and had her stomach pumped, only to die a couple of months later from organ failure - her liver and kidney were shot. So she spent those last couple of months in total agony

As one who has had to deal with emergency situations with my elderly parents, the way the medical profession passively pushes you into making decisions you would not make is frightening. When my mother was suffering from COPD and in the emergency room because her oxygen was low, they wanted to intubate her. They never gave me any other options. I said no for fear of having her stuck living with a tube that she did not want when 30 minutes later they offered another less evasive treatment using a bipap. Now seeing how intubation with Covid does a lot of damage, I am glad i refused.

THIS IS WHY HEALTH INSURANCE IS EXPENSIVE. Someone has to pay, and it ends up being those who can.

you can make you a living will through the hospital telling them no extraordinary measures whether they go by it well that's another thing

How do YOU know if its clearly past their time?

This goes beyond conversion therapy. It also applies to kids being sent to facilities for drug/alcohol rehab or mental health issues like eating disorders, suicide attempts, so-called "oppositional defiance," etc. The hired kidnappers are called "transporters" and their work is made possible by the many for-profit youth "residential treatment centers" located conveniently in the states with the most lax legal oversight of such facilities (Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada). Most of the places have poorly trained staff, underqualified therapists, woefully inadequate schooling for their teenage patients to continue their education, and non evidence-based practices ranging from unhelpful to utterly bizarre. Please search "Breaking Code Silence" and explore their resources to learn more about this subject. I can tell you from my own experience that a lot of kids are being profoundly traumatized in these places and the need for legal reform to stop it from continuing is more urgent than ever.

My in-laws and their church attempted many kidnappings. Try to get him to a gay reformation camp. Our boys are biologically mine and they attempted saviour kidnappings. I hired armed security to bodyguard our sons and my husband. Three years of living hell while we worked our way through the courts.

Wait what?

Okay conversion therapy aside (it's bs torture nothing more). Most of these youth camps are for last resort cares. All other means to help these kids has been exhausted and these camps are a step away from jail/juvenile detention. I see nothing wrong with these. Or the "kidnapping" to get them there. What do you think happens when you have a warrant for arrest? The police don't knock nicely and ask you to go at two in the afternoon. No they kick in your door put you in handcuffs and take you. How is this any different? These are not for kids who have a little problem they have BIG potentially life threatening problems and sometimes extreme measures need to be taken.

How is this not recognised as child abuse????

We adopted a bulldog that was thrown out of a puppy mill because she couldn't have any more puppies, she is 6 years old, we had her speyed (they were too cheap to do that at her last C section ). She lived her whole life in a kennel only ever brought out to breed. The poor thing was so scared of everything, 8 months on and she is now friendly to humans, still scared of other dogs, can barely breathe properly and cannot walk for more than 20 mins without significant breathing difficulties. She is an absolute love, we adore her and have chosen to care for her in her final years. The rescue who saved her were awesome to do so, we are fortunate to have her, it breaks out hearts as she and her kind are a physiological disaster, English Bulldogs are beautiful and sweet natured but truly shouldn't be bred. It's not her fault. We are giving her a caring retirement home and she brings joy to those she meets, such a polarizing subject. From a guardian of a retired, mistreated puppy mill dog, we agree, it shouldn't happen

Yeah, adopt! Don’t get from a breeder!

Can't upvote this enough.

these dogs have to have C sections because they are unable to give birth the normal way

Puppy mills, Premarin Horse farms, any animal breeding facility. They should be illegal.

That is cruelty. The law needs to catch up with technology. I think adults who film images of children where they are experiencing fear or great distress should expect to be charged with child abuse and/or child exploitation. It's just not okay.

Untill kids are 18,it should be forbidden for parents to Exposé there kids On the sociale Medias…. Just Me👍

That's just honestly so wrong and awful.