TIL: Today I Learned

[Valka D'Ur]

Instead of trashing your heath care system, out of ignorance, no doubt, i would ask why aren't you covered for the more expensive option? Who would be covered for the more expensive option?

Since I am in this situation and you're not, and I live in Canada and you don't, how about you do me the courtesy of not berating me for being angry about this?

Yes, I can go to the hospital and not have to worry about paying for it. But prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs are a whole other thing. I'm covered for a lot of prescription drugs, but not the one I was told would be ideal. I am covered for the one which I can't tolerate. There are multiple hoops I could try to jump through to get coverage, and I might try that if my situation worsens to the point that I really can't do without it. But that would require cooperation between my doctor, a social worker, and my caseworker, all being able to convince the bean counters that it's really not feasible to require 6 months of data for a drug I can't tolerate for even 6 hours.

Health care is a provincial responsibility, and the coverage varies wildly from province to province. There are things I'm covered for that Synsensa isn't, and vice-versa. We live in different provinces. Add in the rules where Aimee and warpus live, and you've got four provinces with different rules. This sometimes results in people actually dying because the only alternative is moving... and you don't get health coverage in a new province until you've lived there a minimum amount of time (normally at least 6 months). By that time you would most likely be dead.

 

[Ferocitus]

How cheap is yours? I have no insurance and mine is $35 for x30 20mg time release.

$3.75US for 200 X 5mg tablets (not time release).
Would Sinaloa, or another cartel be cheaper for you? Competition for the ADHD dollar could be to your benefit.

 

[bernie14]

Since I am in this situation and you're not, and I live in Canada and you don't, how about you do me the courtesy of not berating me for being angry about this?

Yes, I can go to the hospital and not have to worry about paying for it. But prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs are a whole other thing. I'm covered for a lot of prescription drugs, but not the one I was told would be ideal. I am covered for the one which I can't tolerate. There are multiple hoops I could try to jump through to get coverage, and I might try that if my situation worsens to the point that I really can't do without it. But that would require cooperation between my doctor, a social worker, and my caseworker, all being able to convince the bean counters that it's really not feasible to require 6 months of data for a drug I can't tolerate for even 6 hours.

Health care is a provincial responsibility, and the coverage varies wildly from province to province. There are things I'm covered for that Synsensa isn't, and vice-versa. We live in different provinces. Add in the rules where Aimee and warpus live, and you've got four provinces with different rules. This sometimes results in people actually dying because the only alternative is moving... and you don't get health coverage in a new province until you've lived there a minimum amount of time (normally at least 6 months). By that time you would most likely be dead.

I'm not berating you or syn (you are the victims) here, I'm questioning your system where apparently, cost and statistics trumps individual outcomes. In the US, if a patient does not respond to formulary (insurance approved) treatments, non formulary treatments can usually be approved in a matter of 1-2 weeks at most.

 

[Synobun]

Approval is easy. Affording it is not. Pharmacare, and treatment coverage, is fairly meh in Canada. There has been some flirting with national pharmacare but nothing promising. As-is, any drug coverage and treatment coverage is at the province's discretion. Usually, many medications and treatments are only covered under specific circumstances, if they're covered at all.

Edit: Oh right, you asked about eye pain. I had three eye infections this summer. I did have a cluster headache two years ago that required ER intervention (magnesium IV bayyyyybeeeee).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Approval is easy. Affording it is not. Pharmacare, and treatment coverage, is fairly meh in Canada.

It's also fairly disparate across the provinces. Theres been calls for a national pharmacare program but I'm not sure what's going on with that.

 

[Lexicus]

I'm not berating you or syn (you are the victims) here, I'm questioning your system where apparently, cost and statistics trumps individual outcomes.

The US system, where private profits in the medical industry trump individual outcomes, is vastly superior

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm not berating you or syn (you are the victims) here, I'm questioning your system where apparently, cost and statistics trumps individual outcomes. In the US, if a patient does not respond to formulary (insurance approved) treatments, non formulary treatments can usually be approved in a matter of 1-2 weeks at most.

I will remind you of what you said:

Instead of trashing your heath care system, out of ignorance, no doubt,...

It looks to me like you're calling me ignorant for trashing my health care system. If that's the case, you have no idea what you're talking about and no business criticizing. I have every right to be angry about this.

We're talking about a country where a woman had to go to the Human Rights Commission and file a discrimination complaint against the government because they wouldn't cover her for a particular drug that was covered for senior citizens but not for younger people. The excuse was that that particular disease normally afflicted seniors but not people in their 40s, so she was free to apply for coverage after she was 65. Of course she would have been long-dead by then.

I'm glad to say that she won her case. This was a clear case of a violation of her Charter rights on the basis of age.

 

[Takhisis]

The US system, where private profits in the medical industry trump individual outcomes, is vastly superior

lol u said trump

 

[Lexicus]

lol u said trump

"Cuttin off wack kids, pullin their trump cards
I thump hard, and make em say that I'm God"
-Guru, Mass Appeal

 

[dusters]

Today IL that dreaming about a girl who makes a lot of dolls could potentially mean this-

"Seeing a lot of dolls around, maybe in the doll section of a toy store or being inside a house of someone with an extensive doll collection, means you would soon witness something extraordinary in reality.

This massive event would resound all over the world or at the very least affect a lot of people in your community.

This could either be a positive or negative happening or circumstance, so perhaps your subconscious showed you this dream symbol to make you mentally prepared for what is about to come."

 

[MaryKB]

TIL that if you buy a can of buttercream frosting and put it in your fridge, you get something like super soft and delicious icecream ... that is fluffier, holds its shape, doesn't melt, and doesn't give you a headache.

Yes, I'm eating chilled buttercream frosting out of a can. Try it!

 

[Synobun]

Ewwwwwww.

 

[MaryKB]

Ewwwwwww.

What?

It's delicious!

 

[The_J]

Today IL that dreaming about a girl who makes a lot of dolls could potentially mean this-

"Seeing a lot of dolls around, maybe in the doll section of a toy store or being inside a house of someone with an extensive doll collection, means you would soon witness something extraordinary in reality.

This massive event would resound all over the world or at the very least affect a lot of people in your community.

This could either be a positive or negative happening or circumstance, so perhaps your subconscious showed you this dream symbol to make you mentally prepared for what is about to come."

Sounds like a horoscope: Absolutely meaningless.
It says in short form: Some good or bad global event will happen in the future.
No faeces, really? Must take a really advanced medium to predict this.

 

[Synobun]

Today I learned some gas stations in the US play video ads while you're pumping gas.

Cursed information.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Shhh, don't tell Canadian gas stations.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Today I learned some gas stations in the US play video ads while you're pumping gas.

Cursed information.

They SUCK

They are so loud and obnoxious and startling and annoying. Thankfully, some of the stations permanently mute them or otherwise highlight the mute button for customers to smash.

 

[dusters]

Sounds like a horoscope: Absolutely meaningless.
It says in short form: Some good or bad global event will happen in the future.
No faeces, really? Must take a really advanced medium to predict this.

Ok, the full was this:

There was a Vietnamese girl who was autistic. She only knew how to make dolls. Her elders provided materials for dolls, but that was expensive so family was almost starving. She really only wanted to make dolls in life. She was ok with selling some of them.

In the end this girl, who was 19, but looked like 12, was forced by family to work as a stripper to provide at least some money. She despised stripping and her moves were mechanical, like doll herself. But she realised she needed money for making more dolls.

I was visiting this weird family and found situation of the girl rather dire.

That was the full dream. You can try interpreting it in your own way.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That was the full dream. You can try interpreting it in your own way.

You've been watching too many Lifetime Movies?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

They SUCK

They are so loud and obnoxious and startling and annoying. Thankfully, some of the stations permanently mute them or otherwise highlight the mute button for customers to smash.

This reminds me of a weekly segment Jay Leno used to do on The Tonight Show. People would drive up to a gas pump and when they got out of their vehicle, a man on a video screen would start talking to them. This was before such things were common, and at first the people thought it was a little weird. But if they ignored it, the man started getting personal, and making comments, asking personal questions... and the customers realized that it was a real person, in real time, who could see and hear them.

Some of the people actually walked around the screen, trying to figure out just where the man could be hiding. Sometimes they played along and sometimes they got mad. It was usually at least somewhat amusing (I preferred the Monday night headlines segment).