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.......and let me add that we only get reimbursed a percentage.
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Posted: Mar 07 2013 at 2:34pm |
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I also know some folks who wait until damn near dead. But I also know more folks that when folks had better insurance with $10 perscriptions and $20 copay. ...all they had to have was a cough and they were going to the doctor. *shrugs* I know I did.  Now folks are waitin' till they can't bring a fever down by themselves to go to the doctor or have a pain that is gettin worse over the course of the day but they prayin' that this 'Tussin will take care of it....and usually by then...it's emergencyroom status.
Last year before our new insurance went into affect....I had never seen so many people leaving work for doctor and dentist appointments in Nov and Dec. Majority of them said that most likely after that they would have to be at death's door to go see their PCP. |
but that's just it. usually, the co-pay for a office visit and/or urgent care center is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY lower than the emergency room co-pay. WAAAAAAAY
that's one of the driving factors to make the cost so high for an emergency room visit...to hopefully, prevent people from waiting unitl it is an emergency to get care...
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Posted: Mar 07 2013 at 2:36pm |
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I have to read the paperwork again to be honest. It is so confusing to me. |
if you need help. i can help... 
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Posted: Mar 07 2013 at 2:38pm |
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damn, they're the reverse of the females wutsrlygood was describing.  seeing a black woman doing well and having a longing to fertilize that uterus. they caught the baby bug. |
girl. neither one of them have children so, they are acting crazy...
i'm just waiting on a call from my ex-hubby. he doesn't have any either... 
the dude i am dating now is quite a bit younger than me. he has no children...we'll see how this goes...
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Posted: Mar 07 2013 at 2:41pm |
ThoughtCouture wrote:
newdiva1 wrote:
I also know some folks who wait until damn near dead. But I also know more folks that when folks had better insurance with $10 perscriptions and $20 copay. ...all they had to have was a cough and they were going to the doctor. *shrugs* I know I did. Now folks are waitin' till they can't bring a fever down by themselves to go to the doctor or have a pain that is gettin worse over the course of the day but they prayin' that this 'Tussin will take care of it....and usually by then...it's emergencyroom status.
Last year before our new insurance went into affect....I had never seen so many people leaving work for doctor and dentist appointments in Nov and Dec. Majority of them said that most likely after that they would have to be at death's door to go see their PCP. |
but that's just it. usually, the co-pay for a office visit and/or urgent care center is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY lower than the emergency room co-pay. WAAAAAAAY
that's one of the driving factors to make the cost so high for an emergency room visit...to hopefully, prevent people from waiting unitl it is an emergency to get care... |
true.
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Posted: Mar 07 2013 at 2:42pm |
I bet you would wear pregnancy well TC. Some women look so adorable knocked up. 
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Posted: Mar 07 2013 at 2:44pm |
modelbusiness82 wrote:
kfoxx1998 wrote:
modelbusiness82 wrote:
TiffanyinTX wrote:
Just throwing this out there, does it have less to do with worshipping white people and more to do with what people's perception of healthy cultural ideals are?
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I don't get the "worship white people" angle. If ALL black people really did "worship white people", then less black people would be dropping out of school, having unplanned pregnancies, joining gangs, etc.
This is a cultural mindset problem, plain & simple.
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All things that came directly from white culture.
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I'm not one to defend white people as they have plenty of help in that department. But how is the white community telling you to have teen pregnancies and drop out of school? We're in a post Brown vs. The Board of Ed Topeka Kansas world. No one is literally barring you from entering a classroom based on skin color. You very well may live in a crap school district, but no one is literally stopping you from attempting to achieve an education. We're in a post slavery & post Loving vs. State of VA world as well, white people aren't forcing you to have sex with anyone anymore to create more slaves.
Not attacking you Kfoxx, but I get tired of this "it's ALWAYS someone else's fault for my shortcomings" mentality that many black people love to adopt. Again, a lack of personal accountability. Instead of saying "I chose to drop out so I could hang with my crew and do whatever else", it's easier to say someone else prevented you.
My grandfather was a sharecropper from VA who never went past the 4th grade because he had to drop out to work the farm to help his family. He literally ran from VA in his teens because he was falsely accused of a crime and they would have lynched him. Yet he managed to put his children (one of them my mother) through college and created his own successful business during the civil rights era in NJ, in a sector normally controlled by white people (construction). If my grandfather could overcome SOME VERY REAL obstacles to do well for himself, anyone growing up outside of a Jim Crow era with more opportunities to obtain an education has NO EXCUSE to claim "someone's trying to hold me back".
It is the above reality in my family tree which pushes me to work hard. I have no excuses for failure because I for damn sure wasn't born behind the 8 ball in negative circumstances like my grandfather.
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It's so much easier when you focus on the things you CAN control..
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Posted: Mar 07 2013 at 2:44pm |
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This is why nobody hardly listens to black men or takes them seriously. Y'all are dismissive & love shoving your opinions down ppl throat. We are talking about children here for crying out loud.
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girl he ain't gonna ever "do" anything anyway...
let him and the others continue to pontificate over the state of black america...
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