Mama Carol

Both people I know who have waited a long time in Canada live in Alberta. In fact, they both live in Calgary. That's not a small town. But they both waited to see a specialist, one for seven years, when it would have taken 2-3 months TOPS to get an appointment with the same type of specialist here. And the problem wasn't a lack of specialist to see them. It was always being put at the end of the list. 2 grand for "basic" xrays by an orthopaedist? Hardly. My husband had a cystogram back in December and it wasn't even 2 grand. Xrays are actually rather inexpensive. Imaging, particul

Good thinking!

They can't put you in jail. They can only charge you a penalty for not having insurance. The penalty will be charged when you file your taxes. Think about it.

Friend in Canada waited 7 years to see a specialist. Here, the time is what, maybe 2-3 months. You're always free to pay out of pocket for care. Doctors still accept cash payment from the patient. Often it's cheaper for the patient (and really cheaper for the doctor since there is no insurance to file). And if you have insurance and your joint replacement is denied, what happens? You are put on pain management to the point where you don't give a s**t if you hurt anymore but you still have the problem and it still gets worse. People seem to think that they can't afford to pay for m

The point is this person had to wait for care because it was time for the doctor on duty to leave. It was the law that the doctor was only to be there for so long or until a certain time. Imagine that firefighters walked away from a fire because it was quitting time. Or a cop leaving the scene of a crime because it was quitting time. A restaurant server has to stay until someone comes to relieve them. Doctors HERE do that. Apparently in Europe, they leave when it's time to leave regardless. Be rough to be the patient getting a transplant when it comes quitting time. Some of my frien

But you're going to have to find the money to pay for the health insurance. It's a law now. Doesn't matter that you can't afford it. "Affordable" is all relative, isn't it? If you don't have the money, you can't afford it no matter how affordable someone who makes 200 grand a year says it is. Something has to break for you, soon. Just hang in there. It will happen!

You mentioned two of the things that make our health care cost so much--insurance and big pharma. ACA will do nothing to change that. They helped write the law!!

They might even have realized they did it. If they were on drugs, which I'd bet my bottom dollar they were, it probably seemed like a dream. And why did he call and say he wanted to commit suicide? He wanted to get help, obviously. He wanted to be stopped, obviously.

No, everyone is NOT having to pay for health care. Everyone is having to buy health insurance. They are being forced to buy a PRODUCT -- an insurance policy -- under the guise of having to pay a tax if they don't. But the tax is much cheaper than the insurance! No, we are not taking the profits and sending it to those who care for people. We are sending the profits to the insurance companies and the people who invest in insurance stocks. The people who actually do the care won't get a penny more from this. Not one! When will people learn that the problem with health care now is

I have a friend whose wife works for a large orthopaedic group. One of the doctors in her practice went to Europe and was talking with another doctor. This European doctor told about a patient who came in and who needed surgery right then. The surgeon couldn't do it. It was time for them to go home BY LAW, so home they went. The patient had to wait until morning and another doctor came on duty. So, yeah, great system.

I believe we are unique in that we are the only country that allows insurance companies to dictate policy taken by the government. I know years ago, and this may not be true now, in some countries in Africa the patient had to supply everything they needed in a hospital down to the sheets for the bed. A hospital was NOT the place you wanted to be.

Not sure if the practice is accepting new patients but if so, I highly recommend Drs Thomas and Mary Gearhard. They are on Mulkey Road by Cobb Hospital. I know there is another doctor in the practice but I can't remember his name. Love, love, love Dr. Tom and Dr. Mary. I would have still been going there had my insurance been accepted there in the mid-1990s. But in Paulding, I can recommend Dr. Carl Goolsby. Very nice guy. Easy to deal with. He's on Charles Hardy Parkway, kind of behind Suntrust.

What they did or where they came from. Our family name was thought to be from Kolb. I think it is, or was, a place somewhere in Great Britain, Ireland I think. No clue where my married surname came from. I've been told it's Italian but my husband swears they are all Irish and Scotch (maybe he was talking about what they drank). It doesn't even SOUND Italian. That's the thing. The person who told me it was Italian said he had traced the lineage back to Italy. I looked at him and said "but how many redheaded Italians do you see?" The family is covered up with redheads! Well, unt

I can't remember the exact family tree but yes. A cousin of some sorts on my dad's side. All of my aunts and uncles and my dad met him not long before he passed away. They grew up while he was playing ball so they had never had the opportunity to meet until he was well up in years. I want to say that he and my grandfather were first cousins, which would have made their fathers brothers. I think that's the way it goes. It's been a good while since I looked at the family tree. There are a lot of Ty Cobb's in the family, especially the part that is around Blairsville, which is the are

I cringe when I see people talking on their cell phones at the pumps even. If she dies, he should be charged with murder in the first degree. Prayers for a speedy recovery for her. And a quicker divorce.

It's a trait of the family--speak your mind, regardless of whether or not anyone approves.

Well, until you said he was still alive I was thinking Ty Cobb. But since he said this person is still alive I'm going with Muhammed Ali or as I knew him while I was growing up, Cassius Clay. And guess what? I answered before reading to the end. Ask me another one.

There's an Italian place in Rockmart that's supposed to be good. Vincents, I think. Now you've done it!! Now I'm craving crab legs.

Some folks will think I'm nuts for thinking this but it really seems that once 278 came in, crime in Paulding got worse. I know it did in my little neck of the woods in Cobb. One week after "Thornton Road/James Parkway" opened from Bankhead Highway to the Paulding line, some friends of ours got broken into. They had NEVER gotten broken into before. They had gotten broken into several times in quick succession so they put an electric gate up and fenced in their entire yard. It's s shame that people who had lived in the same place for as long as they had (probably 15-20 years before the bre

Found out last night that with a subsidy my insurance won't be what I thought it would be. It will be almost double the original figure I got. You know the old saying, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Something doesn't add up here. That's well below poverty level. Must have other income or assets that disqualify them.

They remind me of my little granddaughters, but just a bit younger.

If one cannot defend oneself against another, we might as well throw out all laws and let the criminals have their way with everything and everyone.

I guess fake conservatives have never been poor themselves.

About damn time! Are you SURE nobody hacked your account or kidnapped you?