Does everyone here read Heather Cox Richardson's Daily Letter each day? (It's free.) If not, let me know and I'll post links to the last two days. Sooo much going on!
I will try to check in each day this week, but it's jam packed, so send me some oxygen. At least two meetings every day except Friday, working at the polls, Eldest's 50th birthday, VT*Grand's awards ceremony, and we need to give the new (to us) dinghy a scrub and put our registration numbers on it. THEN cleaning house ahead of company on the weekend for VT*Grand's high school graduation and party. I may sleep all day on the 9th! Ha! But most of this is very happy doings!
Speaking of oxygen, that is included in my post-hospital home care. We have Medicare Advantage through Kaiser Permanente, which has its own chain of hospitals, etc. We could get dental care, exercise club, etc. for a monthly fee, but choose not to. I figure the break-even point comes around five hospital admissions in a year. We used to pay $20/month, but that ended when ObamaCare started. One of the great things about KP is that one can change MD's at any time for any reason or no reason-- no questions asked. I hate doctor shopping with a purple passion. So far (years and years and years) Rx medicines have all been very economical, and they are promptly mailed to us unless we are in a big hurry. Medicare Part D is included. Modest fees for outpatient doctor visits, X-ray, labs. Kaiser is unionized, and the workers don't have the browbeaten demeanor of those at hospitals where management regularly views (and treats) the workers as the enemy. And the wallet biopsy is not Priority Number One. ----Alan
Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions. Margaret Sullivan Guardian Take away natural beauty, free access to books and support for the arts, and you end up with a less enlightened, more ignorant and less engaged public. That’s a public much more easily manipulated.
“A people that can no longer believe in anything cannot make up its mind,” said [Hannah] Arendt, a student of authoritarianism, in 1973. Eventually, such a public “is deprived … of its ability to think and judge”, and with people like that, “you can then do what you please”.
That’s what Trump and company are counting on. -- nordy
Does everyone here read Heather Cox Richardson's Daily Letter each day? (It's free.)
ReplyDeleteIf not, let me know and I'll post links to the last two days. Sooo much going on!
I will try to check in each day this week, but it's jam packed, so send me some oxygen. At least two meetings every day except Friday, working at the polls, Eldest's 50th birthday, VT*Grand's awards ceremony, and we need to give the new (to us) dinghy a scrub and put our registration numbers on it. THEN cleaning house ahead of company on the weekend for VT*Grand's high school graduation and party. I may sleep all day on the 9th! Ha! But most of this is very happy doings!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of oxygen, that is included in my post-hospital home care. We have Medicare Advantage through Kaiser Permanente, which has its own chain of hospitals, etc. We could get dental care, exercise club, etc. for a monthly fee, but choose not to. I figure the break-even point comes around five hospital admissions in a year. We used to pay $20/month, but that ended when ObamaCare started. One of the great things about KP is that one can change MD's at any time for any reason or no reason-- no questions asked. I hate doctor shopping with a purple passion. So far (years and years and years) Rx medicines have all been very economical, and they are promptly mailed to us unless we are in a big hurry. Medicare Part D is included. Modest fees for outpatient doctor visits, X-ray, labs. Kaiser is unionized, and the workers don't have the browbeaten demeanor of those at hospitals where management regularly views (and treats) the workers as the enemy. And the wallet biopsy is not Priority Number One.
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I also have Kaiser and like it generally, with some shortcomings. -- nordy
DeleteParks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions.
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Take away natural beauty, free access to books and support for the arts, and you end up with a less enlightened, more ignorant and less engaged public. That’s a public much more easily manipulated.
“A people that can no longer believe in anything cannot make up its mind,” said [Hannah] Arendt, a student of authoritarianism, in 1973. Eventually, such a public “is deprived … of its ability to think and judge”, and with people like that, “you can then do what you please”.
That’s what Trump and company are counting on. -- nordy
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