What's on your agenda for today?

Anyway, as for agenda today. I'm still in bed having finished breakfast. Waiting for Andrew Marr on BBC.

Non workout day. Housework.
 

Well clearly the NHS does not do a good job in many areas in the UK we know that from the many stories in the media of failing hospitals , high incidences of MRSA and sheer neglect in some hospitals and NHS trusts. The NHS , when it's Good it's very good, but when it's bad it abysmal
 
Kath said:
AS and Holly - Thanks for the info on how things work healthcare-wise in the UK. I'm beginning to see what the differences are between there and here. Over here, most regular working folks get their health insurance thru their employer. When they retire from the job, they are enrolled in Medicare which covers around 80% of health needs - so they need to get a supplemental insurance policy to cover the remaining 20%. Medicare now also covers the unemployed, sick and impaired, etc. How much time a person can take off if sick is up to the discretion of employers. Some people have little or no time off and some have a generous amount of sick leave.
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So Medicare covers the unemployed and the chronically sick, is that for life Kath?

I mean if someone who has no disability has never worked all their life, are they still entitled to free medicare..or do they have to pay something towards it?
 

hollydolly said:
Well clearly the NHS does not do a good job in many areas in the UK we know that from the many stories in the media of failing hospitals , high incidences of MRSA and sheer neglect in some hospitals and NHS trusts. The NHS , when it's Good it's very good, but when it's bad it abysmal
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True there have been some horror stories involving hospitals in England, as far as I recall. Not a fair comparison as England has ten times the population:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/dave-watson/scots-nhs-satisfaction-soars-as-englands-falls
 
hollydolly said:
So Medicare covers the unemployed and the chronically sick, is that for life Kath?

I mean if someone who has no disability has never worked all their life, are they still entitled to free medicare..or do they have to pay something towards it?
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Medicare is only if you are over 65. Medicaid is only the for poorest. There are still millions with no healthcare at all although a hospital has to take you if it's life and death, and you'll likely get a huge bill. I don't know how it works now with Obamacare.

When I was a divorced mother of two I had to go on benefits/welfare while I went to college to get a skill. When I got my degree and got a job I no longer was eligible for Medicaid and my employer didn't provide health insurance. So I had NO healthcare for my kids and I. That's a disgrace.
 
It's difficult for me to get my head around the American system Annie....if Medicaid is for the poorest why are there 'millions' without healthcare at all..?...and what happens if it's not a life and eath situation, what if it's someone who's perhaps broken an ankle for example...how do they get treatment.?...and even someone in a life or death situation presented with a bill how do they pay it if they have no insurance

Also please explain to me ..if you can... what happens/happened when your kids got ill..and you might be on minimum wage with no cover for the kids?...who treated them when they were sick? What happened if for example they got appendicitis or whooping cough, or a broken leg ?
 
hollydolly said:
It's difficult for me to get my head around the American system Annie....if Medicaid is for the poorest why are there 'millions' without healthcare at all..?...and what happens if it's not a life and eath situation, what if it's someone who's perhaps broken an ankle for example...how do they get treatment.?...and even someone in a life or death situation presented with a bill how do they pay it if they have no insurance

Also please explain to me ..if you can... what happens/happened when your kids got ill..and you might be on minimum wage with no cover for the kids?...who treated them when they were sick? What happened if for example they got appendicitis or whooping cough, or a broken leg ?
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Medicaid doesn't cover the working poor (may be different now with Obamacare). My kids didn't really get sick and didn't need a hospital thankfully, nor did I. I had to pay out of my measly income. Many go into debt or have to file for bankruptcy.

A hospital can't turn you away if it's a true emergency, but they can send you a bill. There are some hospital designated for charity cases.

One of my sister's kids has a friend whose baby was in neonatal care for a long time. Her husband wasn't yet covered by his company's insurance as he was new there I think. Baby died. Family in debt for $1+million. Tragic.
 
Yes I understand what you're saying about your own children not getting sick thank god...but millions of kids do get sick, what happens to them?


Oh perhaps this should be all on another thread..not fair to keep asking you questions since you've never lived under Obama Care..sorry!! but thanks for explaining thus far..
 
I'm up. It's raining pitchforks and hammer handles so I'm glad I worked in the garden yesterday. Today is a day for tidying up and watching Netflix.

Maybe April will post pictures of her night out.
 
hollydolly said:
Yes I understand what you're saying about your own children not getting sick thank god...but millions of kids do get sick, what happens to them?


Oh perhaps this should be all on another thread..not fair to keep asking you questions since you've never lived under Obama Care..sorry!! but thanks for explaining thus far..
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Yes, we should have another thread. Others can explain better as, you're right, I was never under Obamacare and did have pretty good insurance before I left the US.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
I'm up. It's raining pitchforks and hammer handles so I'm glad I worked in the garden yesterday. Today is a day for tidying up and watching Netflix.

Maybe April will post pictures of her night out.
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Mornin' georgia...stay in outta the rain and just chill...it's kinda trying to make it's mind up here now...one minute sunny the next overcast..
 
Well, it took me 15 minutes to clean up, and now I'm exhausted. LOL I laugh at myself because things I wouldn't dream of glossing over in a client's house are things that don't seem all that important in my own! If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, does cleaning our homes mean we're all as nutty as a buncha fruitcakes?

Sure is ugly out there, but at least rain doesn't have to be shoveled. A friend who lives on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls reported that they are getting lots of sNOw this morning. Ugh.
 
It's turned sunny here but started out very cloudy.

I finally did my US tax return that I have been putting off for ages. It wasn't as complicated as I thought. I pay 0.00 in tax in both countries as my DH's income doesn't count toward mine. Last year I started receiving SS and a UK pension. I've been receiving a small work pension from TN for 3 years. I'm allowed to earn the equivalent of $99K per year in the UK before I have to pay the US a tax on it. Unless I get pretty hefty raises in my pension I doubt I'll hit that anytime soon! LOL!!!
 
I was going to get a link that can explain Obamacare in more understandable terms than I can - and it appears that this is a large enough topic to require a new thread. Very basically, Obamacare came into being due to various shortcomings in the original Medicare/Medicaid Program by replacing/improving the areas of healthcare that were needed. It very much improves the situation that the poor and unemployed find themselves in. Let's say, somebody loses their job - Poof! there goes their health insurance unless their spouse is still working and covered by insurance. So Obamacare provides healthcare options for those people and their families. Obamacare also does away with the original Medicaid/Medicare mandate concerning illness predisposition. The Medicare used to say "if you present with an illness that you've had already, then Medicare/Medicaid won't cover that illness." Folks found this to be a big negative so Obamacare got rid of that rule and now a patient is covered even if they've had a certain illness a hundred times. Where cometh the money to pay for this healthcare? - same as always, via the taxpayer but has this has not increased taxes in a big way since many of the changes brought about economies of scale.

Sorry to go on at length here and it does seem like a new thread is needed.
 
Kath said:
I was going to get a link that can explain Obamacare in more understandable terms than I can - and it appears that this is a large enough topic to require a new thread. Very basically, Obamacare came into being due to various shortcomings in the original Medicare/Medicaid Program by replacing/improving the areas of healthcare that were needed. It very much improves the situation that the poor and unemployed find themselves in. Let's say, somebody loses their job - Poof! there goes their health insurance unless their spouse is still working and covered by insurance. So Obamacare provides healthcare options for those people and their families. Obamacare also does away with the original Medicaid/Medicare mandate concerning illness predisposition. The Medicare used to say "if you present with an illness that you've had already, then Medicare/Medicaid won't cover that illness." Folks found this to be a big negative so Obamacare got rid of that rule and now a patient is covered even if they've had a certain illness a hundred times. Where cometh the money to pay for this healthcare? - same as always, via the taxpayer but has this has not increased taxes in a big way since many of the changes brought about economies of scale.

Sorry to go on at length here and it does seem like a new thread is needed.
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Obamacare sounds great. Why do so many object? Better reply on another thread.
 
Today, I'm just going to veg out after a long fun night of dancing. It was an even better time at The Beach Club this time around than it was a couple a of weeks ago. What a blast. This is my official place to go to fun dancing. I like the place most because everyone there is having a blast from ages 21-80+ just a great crowd. The lead singer, paid for one of my drinks, she and I had spoken the previous time I was there, she was commenting on my hair. This time, she thanked me for coming again and was telling her boyfriend that she wanted her hair done in a similar style as mine. She's a fantastic singer and a very sweet person.

Speaking of hair, much of the night, I felt like a chia pet. What is it with people thinking it's perfectly ok to proud, pull and pat a perfect strangers hair, I can't give a number how often this happened yesterday evening at the club. Sometimes if someone was doing it on the sly and they got caught, usually a woman, the person they were with would apologize and say, she just wanted to touch your hair. :aargh: I guess it's the alcohol and dark environment that brings out more stupid than usual to make some think it's ok to just put your hands on a perfect stranger. I'm going to start lacing my hair with poison ivy :mad: I don't mind if someone ask first, but, stop pulling my hair and touching me if you don't frecking know me. This went on all night. Still it was a really great evening out in spite of this annoyance.

Dear people, stop touching the black girl/women's hair, don't even ask to touch a perfect stranger's hair. Maybe I should go to fairs set up a booth and charge to have people pet the black lady's hair. :D

Happy Sunday people.

For some reason, my camera wasn't working, this is the best I could do for a picture from the night.

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Well apart from my own familys' hair I have never touched another persons' hair, and it never would occur to me to touch a strangers' hair regardless of what colour the person was or what type of style it was...how rooooooood...:mad:. I bet you felt like an exhibit.!!!!. still , great to hear you had a blast....you're making me jealous now.. :D
 
I've never touched another person's hair either, but people have touched mine.

April, you're a wild woman partying all night! :cool1:
 
hollydolly said:
Well apart from my own familys' hair I have never touched another persons' hair, and it never would occur to me to touch a strangers' hair regardless of what colour the person was or what type of style it was...how rooooooood...:mad:. I bet you felt like an exhibit.!!!!. still , great to hear you had a blast....you're making me jealous now.. :D
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This isn't an unusual occurrence, it was just more more out of control this time around. People do this on the street sometimes as well, they touch our skin. At least when I go to a club nowadays, they aren't touching my backside, I guess that's just something done more up north ny/nj. But yes, people are rude. It is annoying, not as upset by it as I could be, just more of an annoyance that people seem to think this is ok to do, even touching my skin or face. Now the butt, we really will have a problem, if I can determine who did it, they will lose a digit. :D Then again, I was the bad one last night. ;)
 
Well, April, I haven't been out dancing in quite awhile (eons!) but I probably would never, ever go dancing if I thought folks were going to touch anything on my person, like hair, for instance! I thought hair belonged to the owner - that being the case, people with a hair fetish should ask permission on bended knee to touch someone else's hair or else they should seek immediate professional help.
 
Kath said:
people with a hair fetish should ask permission on bended knee to touch someone else's hair or else they should seek immediate professional help.
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LOL!!!!

April, glad you had a good time (aside from the nitwits who wanted to "pet" you). I thought about you yesterday and imagined you trying on outfit after outfit, checking each one in front the mirror, rejecting this one or that...
 
Kath said:
Well, April, I haven't been out dancing in quite awhile (eons!) but I probably would never, ever go dancing if I thought folks were going to touch anything on my person, like hair, for instance! I thought hair belonged to the owner - that being the case, people with a hair fetish should ask permission on bended knee to touch someone else's hair or else they should seek immediate professional help.
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This happens in everyday life not just clubs and by people who look like any average everyday neighbor any of us might have next door. I don't believe it's a fetish, with these people, just a curiosity. Unfortunately it is something a few people seem to have no qualms about doing to some degree. People I go to these places with are of every ilk, dentist, educators, nurses, business owners, retirees, some are couples even last night, one couple had their adult son and his girlfriend along. If you were to see this couple, you'd never ever think to see them in a dance club, they were tearing the dance floor up, I mean really good dancers. This is the kind of town, many older people may come to retiree, but not to sit in a rocking chair on the porch, it's an extremely active area for most every activity you might think of. Seldom anyone in my group is under 45 except if they bring their adult kid along, which some do at times if the kid is visiting from out of town. Not knocking sitting back and spending days knitting and rocking in a chair, just not fond of how I know some, (not directed at you,) judge the idea of going out to a club to dance, my group also goes to the theater, (movies and plays,) museums and other activities. I just tend to write about the nights out dancing.

I love this town, so diverse in the activities it offers seniors, I honestly hate saying, too many others seem to be finding that out and I'm being priced out little my little, the roads are getting too crowded as well. :(
 
April - I'm sorry if I came across as judgmental about the folks touching your hair. I thought it was really funny and I know they were just admiring your hair which is so nice. I've done enough things in my life that are worthy of judgment that I have absolutely no right to judge anyone, anytime, anywhere.
 

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