Pix, I'm glad the pain has passed. Hopefully the insurance pain will too.

Safe travels to everyone who is traveling!

I don’t have to argue about it, but I do have to pay a $50 copay. Sigh. Between ND’s meds and mine, we’re up to $200+ a month just in copays.

I've been there, and that truly sucks. I'm sorry.

I woke up to my first snow!~ [link]

I haven't been out in it yet, but I'm getting out there in a minute to take out the trash ( forgot to do it last night).

Will says it's good snowball making snow. He told me after I called him with several silly questions.

I don’t have to argue about it, but I do have to pay a $50 copay. Sigh. Between ND’s meds and mine, we’re up to $200+ a month just in copays.

I've been there, and that truly sucks. I'm sorry.

Tim's insurance has a $20 copay for generic drugs -- unless they're "mental health" drugs, even if they're generic. The "mental health" drugs, even generic, are $40. Ritalin is included in that. And starting next year, his insurance is putting a cap on how much Ritalin can be prescribed to a patient in a given month, even it the cap is under what the doctor prescribes, because it's what the patient fucking NEEDS to function.

I'm so rageful about that, I still can't come up with a rant.

Fucking health care rationing and non doctors making health care decisions/mandates.

Tim's insurance has a $20 copay for generic drugs -- unless they're "mental health" drugs, even if they're generic. The "mental health" drugs, even generic, are $40. Ritalin is included in that. And starting next year, his insurance is putting a cap on how much Ritalin can be prescribed to a patient in a given month, even it the cap is under what the doctor prescribes, because it's what the patient fucking NEEDS to function.

Well, sure. I mean, can't Tim just decide to have better mental health and decide to not have ADD? PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PEOPLE!!!

t /sarcasm

Health insurance is just a crutch and stifles initiative and keeps people from going out and finding good health.

edit: They could go out and be janitors--but that would take jobs away from the children.

WTF, Tep? That is...so stupid there's not a strong enough eord for stupid.

My mother used to date a janitor. So the whole time that nimrod's clip is playing, I'm thinking "At least say "custodian" or "facilities" asshole."(and that job is way too serious for urchins with brooms...honestly, till I met B. I had *no idea* how much they are put in charge of,which made me all "Bad lefty...no union-made biscuit," but the good ones make it all invisible and shit. The heating, cooling, and lighting of public schools is in their hands, as are environmental retrofits...it's a real job, not just a track for obnoxious poor students(although that's probably how B. got started.) my brother was such a dick yesterday...he literally flounced off. Though Mom said B. was immature, he was not jailbait. Am I a bad person for wishing Karl Rove's route to Hopkins had been a bit more...scenic? "Mic check, motherfucker!"

I saw something by someone who'd actually worked as a janitor/ custodian at a school who pointed out that the kids would be cleaning up all kinds of bodily fluids AND using heavy-duty industrial cleaners and equipment.