AC just asked me if I’d ever had a day when I was glad my thoughts were not visible in a thought bubble. *ummm yeah, like all the time*
First do no harm.
A better way, without doing harm to: taxpayers, providers and patients.
A lot of facts and information from CATO Institute.
“…in-depth analyses of health care issues and reform initiatives, and underscore the ways in which free-market reforms, increased consumer choice, and energized competition – not more government control – improve the quality and cost-efficiency of health care.”
I’ve been both a provider (as in health care worker) and patient. Much found in the above link makes a lot of sense.
- Stephany has started a series.
This is a series that I started when I began writing my blog. It chronicles names, abstracts, studies and drugs that define the Childhood Bipolar epidemic. At an increase of 4000% this diagnosis is one of the most controversial ones out there.
It’s definitely going to be worth the read. So read it.
- In the sidebar:
Stan, who just rocks the effin house with his wit and wisdom
Mood Swinging, a newer blog, while reading I found myself thinking, yes….I feel like that too sometimes.
and our newest commenter,(who is quite creative and I’ll bet can snark as well as the rest of us), BPChick 2 the Rescue, to name a few.
- Not so new in the sidebar: the Mind Food section, which is mostly Libertarian leaning stuff I read.
Also, I’m going to add our “forgotten about” Twitter feed over there somewhere; and last but not least, our friend Keywork begins a very cool road trip today. Hoping for updates on either his blog or his Twitter.
Speaking of Twitter, the Feline (who is MIA), and I joined a bit over two years ago and had no idea WTF to do with it. So my personal one is treated as a better version of RSS feed, tv commentary, pix sharing and drinking game-depending on what I’m doing; so I’m not sure what the BPChick one will end up being. (If you want my personal one, email me here or something)
- In the dumbshit dept, someone I’ve never heard of, from a show I’ve never heard of…claims being around smaller people caused her bulimia.
Wow. If that’s is true, then I guess “mental illness”can finally be taken off the table (no pun intended) as being the cause of eating disorders; since I don’t think either are caused by virus, bacteria or prion.
- hmmmm didn’t know there was a “depression gene”-well anyway, I’m glad I didn’t jump on that bandwagon, since there’s not one.
- No foolin. Lozenges don’t harm your nose (unless you are crushing & snorting them-that would probably hurt).
I have a problem with the FDA crapping all over Zicam. I use the swabs,(religiously, as I do Purell) because they work. I’ve put lots of stuff up my nose for years and my sense of smell is working just fine. Perhaps the FDA should stick to …oh never mind, just hoping for safe dog food seems like a stretch for them.
- HOW in THE hell can any kid, legal or not, be uninsured? I’m paying top dollar for my smokes to insure all who are 30 and under and still live at home. WTF?
- rut-roh Don’t sign up for that swine flu shot just yet, there’s a new strain.
Had more stuff; but “surprise” another storm is coming. Got to go.
I saw this guy the other day, the first time he was on the program, (before the trumped up dazed & confused charges)
He was on again today. <—watch it.
Not only is this downright evil, it’s friggin scary.
**Steps back on to my privacy soapbox**
What if you pissed off the wrong people, asked the wrong questions, held the wrong views…. a year, 10 or even 20 years from now? Don’t you just want government running health care and having access to your private records? (not that it matters in this case as they are just making shit up)
h/t To a hot air commenter for this.
Pay special attention to #39.
We here at BPChicks usually bitch about people playing the crazy card as an excuse or as using it as a defense; and here an accusation is being used as a weapon.
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More food for thought on health care:
We forget that once we have government-sponsored health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on liberty.
Patricia Hewitt, the British Health Secretary, says that it’s appropriate to decline treatment on the basis of ‘lifestyle choices.’” Steyn adds, “Smokers and the obese may look at their gay neighbor having unprotected sex with multiple partners, and wonder why his ‘lifestyle choices’ get a pass while theirs don’t. But that’s the point: Tyranny is always whimsical.”
WordPress has added a new widget. “Social Vibe”
…somethin-somethin…people click…blah-blah…somethin-somethin….and bada-bing, the cause of your choice is helped.
I’m thinking, “Sweet, I hope they have a dog friendly, animal charity….like Best Friends.” 
Imagine my anger and horror when I saw, featured front and center, the dog killers (and very “pit bull” unfriendly)
Excuse me if I don’t join hands and sing a rousing, feel good rendition of kum-ba-effin-yah.
Instead of clicking away and feeling good about myself, I clicked to remove the entire widget instead. (and was still angry)
Well choose a different one…
That’s NOT the point.
The point is, PETA is still deceiving well meaning, good-hearted people; and they are still reaping profit$ from their murderous lies
Shame on WordPress for not researching their “charities”
There are other ways of helping the helpless.
Actions speak louder than words…or self congratulatory clicks. So until I’m a millionaire who can start her own “Dog Town-like sanctuary” I figure raising what I have to be “myth-busters” is a decent start.
Now you’ll have to excuse me, as I have three well exercised, and now very tired “natural born killers” waiting for me on the couch.
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Let’s not forget the HSUS
HSUS, for example, makes millions, but does not operate a single animal shelter. They could be saving countless lives, but instead they concern themselves with pushing for the destruction of Michael Vick’s dogs, while on the other hand begging for money to care for them. (HSUS didn’t have custody of any of Vick’s dogs. I wonder where those donations went?)
June 10th was the anniversary of the tragic passing of Princess Leila Pahlavi. She suffered from anorexia and depression.
I like to think that she would have felt some hope, or at least a bit happy today. read more…
and everyone will be helped.
$600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
Read the entire thing.
They are all saying the same thing lie.
In case you missed it before. read more…
Developing…..Looking/hoping for a video of the segment that caught my attention on FoxNews this morning. So some links will have to do for now
I’ll bet there’s a pattern not only in Florida; but in all states…and not just kids in foster care.
*”prescription pattern found among over 3ooo kids in foster care in Florida”
*Over 3000 kids on mind altering drugs.
The number the segment I caught this morning was over 3000, the articles I’m linking to have smaller numbers; but I’m going with the most recent number since the trickle truth’s numbers keep rising.
Did the state take into account that Gabriel had been sexually abused, that he knew that his mother would go to prison and that he had been moved from foster home to foster home in his last weeks?
A HARSH PILL
Instead of love and understanding, he got pills.
I am quite sick to death of whatever the hell has happened to our what…? Culture?
Why is it that almost every behavior problem/parental failure, trauma, or life problem caused by circumstance is labeled as being pathological and then treated as a disease?
I can think of two reasons.
One. Money.
Two.
It’s easier. It’s an “out”‘
Many parents are too lazy to take the time to provide the guidance, consistent discipline, supervision and interaction kids need.
It’s easier to label a parental fail as a disease, drug the problem and hope for the best than to actually invest time to correct the behavior and/or rehabilitate a messed up, or just an ordinary, strong willed kid.
That first link’s headline should have read:
State sucks just as hard as the parental unit kid was taken from
When a 7-year-old boy on a risky regime of psychiatric medications hangs himself in the bathroom of a foster home, you have to ask whether his guardian — the state of Florida — knows how to be a good parent.
It is very easy to wrest a child from negligent and abusive parents. What’s difficult is to assume the responsibilities the parents never met. But that’s precisely why the state took custody of the boy — to do a better job than a negligent parent.
YA DON’T SAY:
”One gets the impression that these drugs are utilized as chemical straitjackets, not for therapeutic reasons,” said Toni Appel, a neuropsychologist and attorney who has examined cases of children under court-ordered psychiatric treatment.”
Here’s a link with a higher number than cited in the first article; again, FoxNews this morning put the number at over 3000.
The kicker:
Three common pediatric chemical straight jackets up for vote with the FDA
The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will vote next week on whether to allow three psychotropic medications to be marketed as effective and acceptably safe for youths with certain conditions.
What conditions would that be? Temper tantrums? Acting like a lively child? Being an inconvenience to their parents? Easier than investing the time it takes for the parent to take an active role in behavior modification?
This hearing is a desperate attempt to legitimize” the use of these drugs on children, Cohen said. A favorable ruling for the drugs’ manufacturers “would take lot of heat off” of them.
These people make me fuckin sick.
Dog Whisperer method > psych meds any day of the week.
I’m calling bullshit on parents who “have tried everything”….Odds are their “everything” lasted less than a week before they gave up (let a strong willed child win) and went on to something else.
Exit question:
Why is it that people are more willing to invest months, even years on multiple medication trials with their kids; but are unwilling to invest months being consistent in the training of their own child?
UM
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