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theresatwist

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  1. I agree with a lot of what has been said. Have you tried making healthy eating and exercise into a game or maybe even a family challenge? I wouldn't base winning on losing weight because I would be afraid that that sort of game might lead to an eating disorder. But how about seeing who can eat the most servings of vegetables at dinner? Or who go running the most days in a row on a regular basis? I just think turning attempting to lose weight and healthy living generally into a game might make it a little less of a drag. I think if other family members and maybe even friends who don't necessarily even need to lose weight were to get involved it might make this all a little less punitive for your daughter.
  2. What hasn't been mentioned here thus far is puberty. Many girls bodies are slowly starting to change at 10 or 11. That fact is mentioned all the time on this forum and doctors are of course very aware of this fact. While I understand wanting to be the first to talk to my child about "sensitive information," I think the fact is that kids bodies start changing while mentally they are often still very innocent and its difficult to reconcile those two realities.
  3. I think part of rebelling against traditional gender roles (which I have done and continue to do) is fighting for the freedom to do whatever you'd like (work outside the home, work at home taking care of your kids, whatever) without being judged negatively for it. Women being looked down upon for choosing to stay at home is just as bad as women being forbidden from working outside the home. We need to get rid of all of that. Only you know what is best for you.
  4. If you read the article, it sounds like George is completely independent. He's made some poor choices, but it sounds like he's never had real parental guidance. If he's not a "man" yet, it's not because he continues to rely on his parents. He's made some poor choices and he admits that. I see that as one of the signs of being an adult.
  5. To me, John Deere has a troubling history whether it has some sort of insurance company connection or not...
  6. The liberals wanted price controls. There aren't price controls in this bill. Wealth is not being limited. You could certainly argue there is some distribution going on, but there are not limits on wealth that I can see and I've been reading everything I can get my hands on. Remember the AMA endorsed this reform. The doctors, unlike, in the Clinton era are for this. If it was pernicious to their profits do you really think the AMA would have thrown their support behind this reform?
  7. I don't mean to be snarky, I mean this simply as a joke (as I assume you did as well). If Obama were to someone make Whole Foods less expensive so that we could all afford it the Conservatives would be screaming about how "Now that socialist dictator is trying to tell me what to eat!" That said, I'd love to see agricultural policy changed so that small farmers and organic farmers are able to make a living. (And so that organic foods wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.) I don't see that happening ever. Neither the liberals nor the conservatives are willing to stand up to THAT lobby.
  8. When you were 26 were you able to afford insurance? I was financially independent when I was 26 too, but I couldn't afford insurance* and it didn't come with my job. I was healthy and so I just let it go. I believe in the long-run it was damaging to my health to go for years without seeing a doctor. * I did have catastrophic insurance that would have helped me if I were in some horrible accident, but it didn't cover, for instance, regular doctor's visits or any medications. Meanwhile, since then the cost of insurance has gone up and the number of employers providing insurance has gone down. I agree that we shouldn't encourage perpetual adolescence, but I think this is a good measure. Much as they might believe otherwise 26 year olds are mortals too, and need to take care of their health.
  9. If you look at old proposals on health care reform from the Brookings Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank, what they proposed is strikingly similar to what has just been passed. (I'd add a link, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to???) The right, I think, has moved further to the right since those proposals were written, but once upon a time this proposal would have been considered at least conservative-leaning. It's pretty darn similar to what Mitt Romney did in MA as well. Things have clearly changed.
  10. I don't know what she believes. When I hear her speak on Fox it certainly sounds to me like she's against all government involvement in health care. End of life counseling as I understand it is extremely common (if not universal) and is something Republicans have advocated in the past. That said, I'm not interested in debating what Palin believes. My main point was that the same Republican members of Congress (and other Republican leaders) who have been railing against "government-run" health care receive government-run health care themselves. Although I supported Obama and I generally support health care reform, I agree with the conservatives that we need to turn to worrying about the national debt now and I very much hope Obama will do that.
  11. What you said about members of congress being able to choose from a wide variety of private plans will be true for the vast majority of Americans under this new health care bill as well. The government is requiring that you buy insurance, but for most Americans the provider will still be a private provider. When I say "government-run" that's what I mean. The liberals did not get a public option. The government contracts out the work of medicare and medicaid to private companies as well.
  12. I just think if she really thought government-run health insurance programs were so dangerous she wouldn't allow her grandson to be on such a plan. Plus, you buy insurance in case you become sick. Most people who have insurance are generally healthy. Given that I do not believe that death panels exist or will exist I don't think they have anything to do with anybody, but Governor Palin thinks differently.
  13. What's further true is that the same members of congress who have been railing about government-run health insurance for almost a year now receive government-run health insurance as do their families, paid for by taxpayers. If you think it's so horrible return the money to the taxpayers and buy your own on the private market. Strange how not one member of congress has done that--says something. I recently read court documents (that I wish the Palin's hadn't been forced to release for the baby's sake, but they were published in an Alaskan newspaper) showing that Tripp Palin, Governor Palin's grandson receives government-run health insurance, which he is eligible for because he is part Native American and which is heavily subsidized by taxpayers. If the death panels were going to kill off the babies you'd think Governor Palin would pay for private insurance for her only grandchild.
  14. You misunderstood me. The invisible tax I was referring to is all the tax dollars that go toward treating people in emergency rooms who don't have insurance/the money to pay for the treatment they receive. We're already paying for that. We don't see that charge listed, but we're all paying for it. We seem to understand how insurance works differently. I sympathize with the high premiums part! But, the idea of buying insurance, as I understand it, is that everyone buying into the same plan is paying for each other's care, whether the government is involved or not. Insurance companies make money because those of us who are lucky (health-wise) don't use all the dollars we pay toward insurance and that money instead goes toward the unlucky few who end up needing some major procedure. I don't see how you can buy any sort of insurance coverage (home, care, health) if you aren't willing to pay for the expenses of others. That's how insurance works. This bill, as I understand it, is simply expanding that pool, which, if done correctly, would bring down the costs for all involved over time.
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