❗️Things you should know about the Graham-Cassidy Healthcare Bill ❗️
• There is not enough time between now and September 30 to get an accurate CBO score that tells us how many people will loose coverage as well as what the bill will cost, and that is inexcusable.
• It ends individual and employer mandates, which will drive premiums up. It will also end federal subsidies for individual insurance. This is estimated to leave 32 million people uninsured.
• It takes the money going to the states that opted ‘in’ to Medicaid expansion and distributes it among all states, even those whose legislatures irresponsibly voted against expansion. In 2026, funding for Medicaid expansion would end entirely, and the shortfall would be left for the states to cover.
• It institutes a one year freeze on Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood (even though federal law already prohibits federal tax dollars being used to fund or finance abortion services)
• It allows individual states to define what constitutes an “essential benefit”, which will likely result in a slash of coverage for maternity services, cancer treatments and services, ER visits, prescription drugs, and many more benefits. This could also further prevent women’s clinics from charging Medicaid for things like cancer screenings and birth control.
• It allows insurers to double their surcharge for elderly patients. (The ACA allows insurers to charge older customers up to 3 times as much as younger ones. This bill increases that to up to 5 times as much.)
• It allows insurers to charge higher rates based on health status, and it repeals language in the ACA which prevents changing insurance rates after a patient is diagnosed with a condition.
This is not a drill, friends. Call your senators. We have until the 30th.
202-224-3121 -> US Capitol Switchboard. This will connect you directly with the senate office you request.
ResistBot is another great resource. If you text ‘resist’ to 50409, you can fax straight to your senators office by texting what you want to say.
TL:DR; the healthcare bill still sucks. Call your senators. Information on how above ^^
Yes, the new GOP healthcare bill still sucks. Call 202-224-3121 and tell Congress that.Don’t use those words, though. Be courteous and clear. Tell them how this unparliamentary bill will affect you, your friends, your family, and your future. If you’re scared, tell them you’re scared. If you’re angry, be righteous in your anger.
It sucks that we have to do this over and over again, but we have to do this over and over again. For ourselves, for each other. Love ya, Tumblr.
Oh, and here’s a list of the states where your calls will really, really matter:
Arizona: Senator McCain ☎️ 202-224-2235 Alaska: Senator Murkowski ☎️ 202-224-6665 Maine: Senator Collins ☎️ 202-224-2523 Ohio: Senator Portman ☎️ 202-224-3353 WestVirginia: Senator Capito ☎️ 202-224-6472 Tennessee: Senator Alexander ☎️ 202-224-4944 Colorado: Senator Gardner ☎️ 202-224-5941
Since November, more than two dozen women – of all ages, but mostly in their twenties – had approached me in restaurants, theaters, and stores to apologize for not voting or for not doing more to help my campaign. I responded with forced smiles and tight nods. On one occasion, an older woman dragged her adult daughter over by the arm to come talk to me and ordered her to apologize for not voting – which she did, head bowed in contrition. I wanted to stare right in her eyes and say ‘You didn’t vote? How could you note vote?! You abdicated your responsibility as a citizen at the worst possible time! And now you want *me* to make *you* feel better?’ Of course I didn’t say any of that. These people were looking for absolution that I just couldn’t give. We all have to live with the consequences of our decisions.
MEMORIZE THE PACKAGING SO YOU MAKE SURE YOU NEVER BUY THIS CREAM FOR YOURSELF OR ANYONE YOU LOVE.
This post is about vaginas. My vagina in particular. I get yeast infections pretty regularly, and until recently I was able to afford to see a doctor who could prescribe me fluconazole.
Fluconazole, a drug also known by the brand name Diflucan, is a small pink pill. You take two pills a few days apart from each other to restore balance and harmony to your bountiful folds. I’ve never ever had a bad side effect from taking this pill.
Cut to November 2016. I’m a recent college grad without reliable health care coverage in the process of finding a job. And I’m dealing with a yeast infection. Before I moved out of state, my previous doctor told me about Miconazole. She said it was as effective as the pill and hallelujah, it’s over the counter! I decided to purchase the cream pictured above. This treatment only lasted 3 days, a convenient time frame for my schedule.
The application process was a little messy, and some of the cream came in contact with my vulva and labia. Within 5 minutes every piece of skin that had come in contact with the cream, excluding my hands, was on fire. I wanted to scream it was so painful. I began frantically searching for what I should do online.
I found a whole forum of people on drugs.com who had experienced something similar. These comments saved me, and these were just on the first page. There were 33 pages total, the earliest dated July 2009.
I was writhing in pain at 2AM when I found this forum (which I found by searching “my vagina burn itch hurts after miconazole” on Google). As soon as I read these comments I threw the devil cream directly into the trash and jumped in the shower. I didn’t feel any actual relief until I reached in and scraped the cream out of me. I paid $17 plus tax on this bullshit, but I could have just as easily ripped up my money or paid someone to not hurt me.
The moral of the story is that vaginal health care is is completely fucked up because we don’t have access to an over the counter cure for yeast infections that is safe for our bodies and also YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS CREAM EVER.
Reblog to save a vagina.
Okay so I used to get yeast infections every month after my period ‘cause my pH levels were fucked up or something (idk that’s what my doctor said) and I actually used to take this stuff and it was fine. Then a couple years down the road I had a yeast infection for the first time in ages and I used this again and it burned so bad I had to sit in the bath and like physically dig it out of my vagina
AND THEN I LEARNED THAT IT’S BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE A YEAST INFECTION. I had a bacterial infection, which is honestly pretty much identical to a yeast infection depending on the severity. The only difference is that IF YOU HAVE A BACTERIAL INFECTION AND TRY TO USE YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION IT WILL HURT
But it’s not actually the medication’s fault. The medication DOES do what it’s supposed to do, provided you’re actually suffering from a yeast infection. Chances are though that you and every one who commented on this did, in fact, have bacterial infections instead.
FORTUNATELY they also make over the counter tests so you can know if you need to call your doctor or just grab some yeast medicine off the shelf. Next time if you aren’t sure, pee on a stick and save yourself a world of fucking pain
AMEN.
It’s unfortunate that I’m 27 and never knew that last bit of information. The world of vaginal health is so obscure and inaccessible.
Reblogging because I too once found out the hard way that I had a bacterial & not yeast infection. 😑
I, too, once set my vagina aflame with miconazole. I didn’t know it was because of a bacterial infection. Reblogging to save a vag.
Reblogging to save a vag.
It’s almost like the shame and stigma thar surrounds vaginas is a danger to the health and well being of people who have vaginas.
Last night in a comment on FB someone said “minimalism is for people with money.” Then, I commented, “I need more plusses for “minimalism is for people with money.
But this morning, I just couldn’t let it go.
Like seriously, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense and applies to my own experience. If you have money, you can afford to not keep things on hand. If the need for the thing comes up, you can just go buy the thing.
But when you’re not someone with money? Oh hell no. You never know when you might need a thing, so you keep that thing. You get it from a family member, a friend, a neighbor, a yard sale, craigslist, facebook market – it doesn’t matter where it comes from, because once you have the thing (regardless of what it is) it represents some kind of cost. Money was spent on it, or time was spent on it, or both – and both those things are difficult to come by, they are distinctly finite resources, and ones that one doesn’t want to have to spend twice if one can help it.
I might not need this thing right now, or even in the foreseeable future. But I might need the thing someday, and if I keep it, well then I already have it. I can give up a little space in order to not have to buy it again. I will already have it. I’m prepared.
I guess this is why we never see rich hoarders, too.
Also the idea behind minimalism where you buy things of super high quality so you only need one or two of them (shoes, clothes in general), but they’re not affordable to the regular person. Plus have you ever watched minimalist house tours on YouTube? They’re a trip.
Vimes’ boots theory of economics
Incidentally, this is why a lot of people who grew up in the Depression have problems with hoarding. When you’re dead ass broke, you get into the habit of never throwing anything away.
For example, I NEVER throw away plastic tubs. Whether it’s sour cream or margarine or sandwich meat, those plastic containers can be reused as tupperware. I have clothes I no longer wear that I will likely never get rid of because I can either alter them into something I’ll wear again or reuse the fabric and make it into something else.
Sure, my 19 year old TV is on its last legs, but it still works. I can’t just go out and buy another one. I’ll keep worn out headphones where only one earbud works, so that if the ones I’m currently using crap out worse than those, then at least I’ll have one working earbud, in case I can’t buy a new pair right away.
I hate the “You can just go out and buy another if you end up needing it” line. Because no, no I can’t.
The Paradox Machine 