yesterday's child

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A photo essay about the broken healthcare system in the Mississippi delta and how one company is using home health care workers to combat it. 

abaldwin360:

by Vyckie Garrison | Reality Check

When I moved to Canada in 2008, I was a die-hard conservative Republican. So when I found out that we were going to be covered by Canada’s Universal Health Care, I was somewhat disgusted. This meant we couldn’t choose our own health…

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booletsandblossoms:

This little one’s name is Karson. He’s six months old and was born with a heart defect. He’s already gone through open heart surgery, and will likely need more surgeries, procedures, and tests as he gets older.

To help with the medical bills, his grandma is making and selling homemade caramels. They’re not very pricey- six bucks for plain and seven bucks for pecan, sea salt, or cayenne, and you get a half pound of candy.

Get a bag, get some nummy candy, and help a sick little kid in the process.

(I don’t know these people personally- I just think it’s a nice way to do good for someone in need. And yes, I bought some myself- one bag of sea salt caramels are heading to my mouth house as we speak. :3 )

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Homemade-Caramels-Karson-Help-Pay-Medical-Bills-Open-Heart-Surgery-/120898618030?_trksid=m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8418608771467092533

Signal booooost~ ))

I may have to buy myself some candy. :)

The state of health care in America: people are making and selling candy to pay medical bills to keep a newborn alive. This shouldn’t be happening. I hope in the near future Karson’s able to have full health insurance coverage.

That said, since this is reality right now, please consider buying some candy to help him.

-Jess

This is not a one time occurrence or even the exception, people.

At the hospital I volunteer at, I see kids wearing t-shirts from fundraiser’s their parents had to hold to pay for their kid’s medical bills. Some of them have multiple t-shirts describing different fundraisers. Most of these kids have insurance, too. It’s not just uninsured kids. It’s families that have insurance but can’t cover the cost of what the insurance companies don’t pay for.

One had a fundraiser at a local pizza place, another hosted a walk/race to raise money. Another had an “up all night” fundraiser.

Please help this child out.

This is the state of our health care system. We have to hold fundraisers to pay medical bills and yet republicans want you to believe there is nothing wrong and that Obamacare (and any future health care reform) should be repealed.

Love,

Rabble

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anticapitalist:

An Ohio State Senator is turning the tables on men seeking to regualate women’s access to reproductive health. Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) has introduced legislation regulating men’s access to erectile dysfunction drugs. The Dayton Daily News has the details:

Before getting a prescription for Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs, men would have to see a sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency, if state Sen. Nina Turner has her way.

The Cleveland Democrat introduced Senate Bill 307 this week.

A critic of efforts to restrict abortion and contraception for women, Turner says she is concerned about men’s reproductive health… Turner said if state policymakers want to legislate women’s health choices through measures such as House Bill 125, known as the ‘Heartbeat bill,’ they should also be able to legislate men’s reproductive health.

Turner’s bill tracks FDA guidelines which recommends doctors determine whether the root cause of men’s sexual disfunction is physical or psychological. She describes her bill as an effort to “legislate it the same way mostly men say they want to legislate a woman’s womb.”

There have been similar efforts in other states. An Illinois bill would require men to watch a “horrific video” on the side effects of Viagra. In Virginia, Sen. Janet Howell (D) submitted a bill requiring men to undergo adigital rectal exambefore recieving a prescription for erectile disfunction drugs.

Conservative commentators such as Sean Hannity have dismissed the comparison, claiming that Viagra — unlike birth control — treats a “medical problem.” Most women, however, use birth control for medical purposes other than family planning.

THIS IS FUCKING BRILLIANT

lets wait for folks claiming misandry in 3…2…1.

Why would anyone call this misandry? That right there is equality!

Me and Sandy were just talking about all the men in women’s wombs, I like this a lot. *claps*

Sadly i have a feeling this will fail like similar ones before it.. but i applaud the attempt!! 

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