Congress, with the passing of “Cap & Trade”, has openly declared war against the will and needs of the American people. I mean, who in their right mind believes we should be DOUBLING our electricity and gas bills in this economy?
Just wanted to pass along a positive experience I had the other night since this is always a big question for me. I was on a second date with a guy who is really into me. After a movie, dinner, and a couple of drinks, we were in the car and it was the moment of “do I drop you off or bring you home with me”? He wanted me to bring him back to my place. I told him that I would love to make out with him but I didn’t want to go too fast. He said that he too didn’t want to “have sex”. After a few minutes of agonizing over what to say, I told him the following:
“One of the reasons that I want to go slow is that I have herpes. If we have sex I want to do it conscientiously and intelligently. It’s harder for a man to get herpes from a woman and I am on medication which decreases the chances more, but it’s still possible.”
He said something about using condoms and I told him that that’s not 100% but that I have a couple of friends who have been in long-term relationships with men who haven’t gotten it. Then he said that he really liked me and it was ok.
I took him home and we had a great make-out session!
June 23: President Obama gestures as he answers a question during a news conference at the White House in Washington (AP).
Before I dive into this I want to let y’all know that I’ll be cross posting my thoughts in a few places that I contribute to on the net. So if you see this post repeated then now you know why. I’m a contributor for two other blogs: BlogMommas.com and Plains Feeder.
This is where the whole rationing of healthcare comes into play. If you really stop to consider what Obama is trying to do it’s downright scary.
Obama: Health Care Reform Will ‘Absolutely’ Be Passed By End of Year
The other thing I don’t like about this healthcare mess is that he’s trying to rush it as if it’s going to turn into a pumpkin by the end of the year. Let’s talk about this healthcare overhaul and see if both sides can work together to come up with a plan that’s going to benefit everybody.
“I’m going to wait and see what ideas they come up with. I suspect that when they start seeing what the options are, they might end up concluding that the options we’re presenting are the best ones,” he said, adding that he would prefer to reduce tax deductions for the wealthiest to pay for the overhaul.
Why are we picking on the tax payers? Why are we picking on the people that employ our citizens? Why are we penalizing people for their success? Why should the wealthiest people of our country be responsible for this healthcare overhaul?
Obama also said he’s changed his mind on the issue of whether individuals can purchase health care — an idea he was resistant to during his presidential campaign.
“This is an area where people have made compelling arguments to me, that if we want to have system that drives down cost for everyone, we have to have healthy people not opt out of the system,” Obama told ABC.
So basically Obama lied to us when he said that we could keep our current healthcare plan if that is what we choose to do. Remember when he said that? He said that we could keep our doctors. We could stay on the health insurance plans that the companies we work for provide us with if we are happy with the care we are getting. Do you see what a LIAR Obama is? He has the audacity to tell me that I have to subscribe to the nation’s new government healthcare program. It’s not my choice any more.
The United States is the only developed nation that does not have a comprehensive national health care plan for all its citizens.
About 50 million of America’s 300 million people are without health insurance. The government provides coverage for the poor, disabled and elderly, but most Americans rely on private insurance, usually received through their employers. However, not all employers provide insurance and not everyone can afford to buy it on their own. With unemployment rising, many Americans are losing their health insurance when they lose their jobs.
The government can not be all things to all people in this country. The government is not the savior of it’s people. It’s the people that can figure this out and NOT the government. What the article forgot to mention is that while the government provides for the poor, disabled and the elderly… it doesn’t mention the poor quality of what the government has made available to these people. Also, our government is breaking the law and providing for people that are not here in this country legally.
I am not a mean person. I don’t want to see innocent children suffering at the hands of their parents and the decisions their parents made. I understand that many came from other countries that do not offer much hope or promise. But at the same time these people are breaking the law. The laws in this country are not being upheld and the American People are expected to bailout out the poor decisions of others.
We have an immigration problem in this country. If our current healthcare system is so flawed then why do people from other countries flock to the United States to receive that healthcare? Think about that for a half a millisecond.
If you are working for a company that doesn’t provide a healthcare plan then find another job. If you live in a state where the unemployment rate is high then move to Nebraska. I heard on the radio the other day that the employment rate here in Nebraska is the best in the nation and that unemployment is only at 4.4%
This administration is going to take what little quality of healthcare we have left and squash it like a bug. You kind folks out there that do not know what it’s like to be on government care have no idea what you are buying into when you listen to ever single word Obama has to say about it. I grew up on government healthcare and let me tell you, it SUCKS.
Scroll back up and click on the link I provided up there and read the article for yourself. If you are in the healthcare field I invite you to comment with your experience about what you know. You can comment anonymously if you’d like.
The scenario that comes to my mind when I think of healthcare being rationed is the pregnant mom due any day… she goes into labor… she’s at the hospital and the pain is excruciating and the doctor tells her how sorry she is that they can’t offer her an epidural because they are trying to cut costs. That’s just one example! I’m sure there are more examples out there. I’d like to read about those so if you have one please share it.
Originally posted on Domestic Divapalooza where Great minds think out loud.
Thanks for doing what you do-
Recently divorced, not looking forward to “having the talk” again. I hate it!
I don’t have much of an inspirational story to tell or share, maybe I’m just searching for some inspiration here. Nice to see I’m not the only one who occasionally deals with the Big Bad H.
Cheers,
Rob from Allyn Wa.
Dear Friend,
It is now clear that Congress and the president’s top priority for 2009 is health care reform. Since the collapse of Hillary-Care in 1994, Democrats have been working to re-plan and re-package a government takeover of your health insurance.
This year, they’re hoping to get their chance. Last month, Senator Ted Kennedy offered a glimpse of what they have in mind when called for the creation an optional, “public health insurance plan, where coverage is provided in the public interest.”
That may sound nice, but in one sentence, it describes everything that is wrong with a government take-over of American health care.
Health care, by definition, can’t be provided in the public interest because no doctor has ever seen “the public.” Doctors see patients: one at a time, providing personal care in the patient’s interest only.
Now, if you listen to the ongoing debate about health care reform, you hear a common theme, especially from those who favor a government take-over.
They talk a lot more about costs than they do about care. Only here’s the thing: the government is the reason that costs are spiraling out of control now. Government now covers 100 million Americans, and costs are exploding. Under the proposed takeover, 130 million more will be added to government health programs. How can they expect to get costs under control by doubling the government’s role in health care?
The answer is by rationing care. If government wants to cover 230 million Americans and bring down costs, the only way it can possibly do it is denying care to people whose health care is deemed – you guessed it – not in the public interest.
Under similar schemes in Canada and Great Britain, people wait weeks to see their doctors, months to see specialists, and years to get routine procedures and treatments. High-tech tests and breakthrough medicines are off-limits because the government decides – in the public interest – that they are too expensive.
When the late actress Natasha Richardson suffered her skiing accident in Canada this spring, the hospital didn’t have an MRI machine. The doctors never knew her injuries were life-threatening… until it was too late.
That’s how a government take-over of your health care will try to get costs under control: cheap, outdated treatments, long waiting lists, and low-tech hospitals. It won’t take long before families realize the true costs of such a plan aren’t counted in dollars and sense.
Instead of the government-controlled “public option,” we should move toward a “personal option,” where we help individuals and families buy and own their own health insurance plan that no government can ever take-over or take away.
Health care is personal and private. It should be administered by doctors and nurses in their patient’s interest, not the interests of politicians and bureaucrats in Washington.
Because never forget: any law that empowers government to provide health care in the public interest implicitly empowers government to deny it for the same reason.
I plan to play a big part in the health care debate this summer, and my website will be a clearinghouse for information about the issue as it develops. Feel free to check in often, as new content will be added every week. And to help you stay informed, I’ll be in touch frequently as the health care and other debates move forward.
Thanks very much, and God bless.
Jim DeMint
U.S. Senator, South Carolina
Good afternoon,
You are receiving this email because you signed up at WhiteHouse.gov. My staff and I plan to use these messages as a way to directly communicate about important issues and opportunities, and today I have some encouraging updates about health care reform.
The Vice President and I just met with leaders from the House of Representatives and received their commitment to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill by July 31.
We also have an unprecedented commitment from health care industry leaders, many of whom opposed health reform in the past. Monday, I met with some of these health care stakeholders, and they pledged to do their part to reduce the health care spending growth rate, saving more than two trillion dollars over the next ten years — around $2,500 for each American family. Then on Tuesday, leaders from some of America’s top companies came to the White House to showcase innovative ways to reduce health care costs by improving the health of their workers.
Now the House and Senate are beginning a critical debate that will determine the health of our nation’s economy and its families. This process should be transparent and inclusive and its product must drive down costs, assure quality and affordable health care for everyone, and guarantee all of us a choice of doctors and plans.
Reforming health care should also involve you. Think of other people who may want to stay up to date on health care reform and other national issues and tell them to join us here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ — Email Updates
Health care reform can’t come soon enough. We spend more on health care than any country, but families continue to struggle with skyrocketing premiums and nearly 46 million are without insurance entirely. It is a priority for the American people and a pillar of the new foundation we are seeking to build for our economy.
We’ll continue to keep you posted about this and other important issues.
Thank you,
Barack Obama
P.S. If you’d like to get more in-depth information about health reform and how you can participate, be sure to visit http://www.HealthReform.gov.
I get these notes in my inbox all the time:
I got these bumps around my penis, and I dont know what it is. I am worried and want some advice. I dont know what it is. Thank you for your time
You must go and see your doctor. That is the only way that you are going to figure out what is going on with your body. People can give you a list of things that it might be and you still will not know for sure. Googling the possibilities and staring at pictures on the internet will not help because #1 you still will not have any answers and #2 the pictures on the internet are always over exaggerated.
Will you please pick up the phone and make an appointment to see your doctor? I’m sure if you walked right into the clinic they would make time for you. That’s the only way to get this figured out. Nobody should be diagnosing you over the internet even if they are qualified to do so.
I am a mother struggling in coming to terms with how I’ve possibly infected my newborn with hsv. I can only assume I contracted this virus through unprotected sex during my youth. I am completely to blame.
A few years after I settled down and married I was diagnosed with this disease. I had never had an outbreak prior to that so had no idea I carried the disease. I had already given birth and my child was already 2 yrs old when I first discovered I was infected. Thankfully she was born healthy but it sends chills down my spine knowing I gave birth to her vaginally NOT knowing I had the virus.
It almost destroyed my marriage. After telling my husband he initially was frightened of the virus. He even went through a period where he refused to touch me, not even shake my hand. As if my self-esteem wasn’t already damaged enough by the virus itself my husband’s behavior only compounded the hurt and pain I felt inside. After he was tested and realized he was already infected there was little need for him to fear the virus anymore. He has never had an outbreak to this day. We have argued countless times whether the virus actually came from me or him as we both had unprotected sex during our youth, so who knows? What’s done is done, blaming doesn’t change things. Somehow we managed to salvage our marriage yet to this day it is not as happy as it once was.
Three years after this turmoil I happily fell pregnant again. I was assured by my OBGYN that I could safely give birth vaginally if I had no signs of an outbreak and if I also took a course of antivirals. So I diligently took the medicine during my eighth month of pregnancy and prayed to God my baby would be protected. I soon gave birth to a healthy baby but at 10 days old he developed a strange rash on his eyes. It first appeared as small bumps so I dismissed it as baby acne but by day three the so called bumps had spread and began to turn yellow although they never ulcerated.
Fearing my child had hsv I took him to the ER where he saw the on duty pediatrician. At first glance she said the rash was a yeast infection but I swallowed my pride hard and questioned her if it could be something more serious given that I had hsv 2. I hated admitting to a complete stranger that I had this virus. She then called in yet another pediatrician for a 2nd opinion who decided that based on the appearance of the rash and my medical history that it was indeed hsv.
My baby was then admitted to hospital and given antivirals for 10 days. The rash on my babies eyes dramatically cleared up within three days. Blood tests showed my baby tested positive for hsv 1 and negative for hsv 2 which both confused and relieved me at the same time. The pediatrician then began to explain that MAYBE the baby contracted the virus from someone who had a coldsore and not me after all. I had already told them that my other child aged five suffered from hsv 1 on her lips and had given the new baby a kiss on his face after his birth yet the pediatrician said it was most likely he contracted it from me during birth.
What to believe? My heart ached not knowing. So they performed yet another blood test to test again for hsv 2 stating that maybe the first test would not have picked up the antibodies of type 2 so quickly given the way in which the baby contracted the virus via delivery. However the reason, they assume, for the positive type 1 was that I passed on the antibodies for that type to my child during the pregnancy. I never knew I had hsv type 1 either as I have never had a cold sore in my life.
My mind boggles at what virus came from where and who is to blame. I have yet to return to the hospital for the second test results. I suppose it’s a moot point now. My baby has the virus regardless. I spent those 10 days in the hospital blaming and hating myself and hating the unfairness of it all.
Due to the 2nd hospital stay and general business with a new baby I have yet to re visit my OBGYN so I’m not sure what she would make of this but my mid-wife did say she was surprised that this happened given I had no outbreak and was on antivirals but reminded me that there was always that risk however low. How could I be so selfish? After all I KNEW this time in advance that I had the virus. I could have protected my second baby even more but I was terrified of surgery. So I will now spend the rest of my life regretting not giving birth via cesarean.
The hospital assured me that other than the rash, my baby had suffered no other damage yet how could they be certain I question to this day as no other tests were performed.
My now two month old baby is healthy and active but I live in constant fear that the virus will reappear and affect his health and life negatively. What will I tell him as he grows older? Will he hate me for it when he becomes old enough to really understand what this virus is? Will it take his eyesight? How will it affect his life? These thoughts bombard me constantly and have me riddled with a pain in my heart I have never known before.
***If possible I would like to hear from mothers who have experienced similar situations with neonatal hsv and how they and their children have coped.
Thank you kindly, M.
I will let you know what I truly think about taking Acyclovir. I had read not too long ago on your web page that you had no recent response from other’s taken this medication.
I’ll let you know, I’m all new to this and I am in no way a doctor, but I am going to medical school right now. Hopefully I will learn more as I go. I will keep other’s updated.
Everybody has their own kinds of remedies for herpes. If it works, more power to you.
This is my story so here goes
I am covered right now by some very good insurance, so I’m very lucky in that department than most. God was looking over me at the time. You see, I had to go in for major surgery weeks back and my immune system at the time was shutting down. My husband had enrolled in time when it all started crashing in for me. “The news of my life” I had found out that I had contracted the herpes virus this year of 2009.
In my case and only talking from “MY” experience, my first outbreak was not that bad and I only one blister out of it. I still was not clearly, out of it yet. I was still recovering from the mental aspect of it. Who, why, where??
My doctor had told me since my first outbreak was not that bad, she really thought I really didn’t need to spend the money to be on suppressive medication everyday like most. I’m not a big pill fan before all of this, but I wanted to deal with it my own way. So I got on Acyclovir.
It kinda made me feel that I was in control of my own body and it had helped me mentally for my own reason’s. Like being responsible in controlling of my new husband’s well-being. So I thought, who knows? Hey it’s making me feel better taking it. To this day, he is still herpes free.
The doctor had told me it was a good choice to use that everyday over Valtrex. Acyclovir has been around for a very long time and people that had taken it for whatever reasons over twenty-something years had really no side effect’s from it. No liver damage!! That’s good enough for me.
Trials are still underway with Valtrex and little is known what it can do after a couple of years of taking it, but I’m sure we are still safe. We will know more in time. I’m not in any means saying that this is better than Valtrex. My first outbreak, I had Valtrex for my first blister and it did go away very fast. But that’s me! I’m just saying with cost and taking it every day, I would go with Acyclovir when you first start out.
If you have little or no outbreaks you might think it doesn’t work as fast as Valtrex to get into your system or does it? Hmmm… I think that is up to the person and with what kind of immune system they have at the end… Is all about how our bodies can fight it I say, eat well with the medication for starter’s. It’s up to you rather you want to take suppress medication or not. For me, this is what’s working for me to take control mentally.
Later in time I will stop it and see how my body can handle everyday situation’s…at least it doesn’t hurt taking it when you need to. It’s there and that’s why it’s there.
Good Luck,
CCC
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