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Boz Scaggs - LOAN ME A DIME (2003) TRT: 16:00
Boz Scaggs - Ask Me Bout' Nothin' But The Blues
Boz Scaggs "MISS SUN"
Kennedy Center Honors - Bettye LaVette - Love Reign
Lloyd Price "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"
Until Forever by Evan Rogers and D'Atra Hicks
The young doesn't need much health care.
Beyond the Rhetoric: What the ACA Means for My Family
On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was constitutional. As the first anniversary of the Court’s decision approached, I took a step back from the rhetoric and controversy that continue to overshadow what this historic legislation means for my family and other families raising children and youth with special health care needs.
My two children -- Matthew, 16, and Laura, 13 -- have Mitochondrial Disorders, complex neuromuscular conditions. From birth, they have required extensive medical care. That care was costly, so costly that we quickly met the annual and lifetime caps imposed by our health insurance. Because of their medical conditions, Matthew and Laura joined the ranks of Americans whose pre-existing conditions made them uninsurable. My young family was locked into a world of limited choices. Fearing a gap in insurance coverage, we could not change jobs. We experienced financial hardship because once the annual and lifetime health insurance caps were met, we paid the tremendous cost of their medical services out of pocket. Luxuries like dinner out or cable television were unthinkable as bills for necessities -- including our own medical bills -- sometimes went unpaid. We survived, just barely, by making painful choices about treatment priorities. We lived under the shadow of deep concern for the future. How would our children successfully transition to adult life when life-saving treatment was outside of our reach?
Because of their medical conditions, Matthew and Laura joined the ranks of Americans whose pre-existing conditions made them uninsurable. My young family was locked into a world of limited choices.During the Presidential campaign of 2008, it seemed possible that policymakers might be ready to tackle the brokenness of a health care system that painfully threatened so many Americans, including my family. The candidates spoke about the issues I was living with; we were part of the national conversation. I was thrilled that then-Senator Obama’s presidential campaign was the first to have a Disability Policy Committee. As Election Day neared, I was asked to speak on behalf of the campaign at the headquarters of Eli Lilly & Co., a major pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis. The audience was conservative, but they were listening thoughtfully and receptively to why health care and disability rights issues mattered to families in Indiana. It was then that I knew that America was ready for healthcare reform.
We sat together reading the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) blog , knowing the decision was so much bigger than us, but at the same time oh so personal. As the “upheld” tweet came, I turned to him and said, “You have a future.”Could anyone have predicted that passage of the ACA would come in the midst of a complex fiscal crisis, following the loss of its strongest supporter in the Senate with the death of Senator Edward Kennedy? At the time, it felt like anything that could go wrong would go wrong, a familiar feeling for parents of children with special health care needs. When the final floor debates and votes were happening in March of 2010, I found myself yelling at the TV, not for the NCAA March Madness, but for the madness on C-SPAN. It felt so personal. When the final bill was passed, I read every word. I am aware that knowledge is power and that knowing exactly what the ACA held would allow me to support my family and others in accessing its protections.
My family celebrated September 23, 2010, the day upon which my children would be permanently insurable throughout their lives despite their pre-existing conditions. I took a full-time position and enrolled my children in coverage, something that would have been impossible just a few months earlier. With the successive increases in annual caps, mandated by the ACA, which my children (finally) did not exceed, our new insurance covered their medical services. The reality of the ACA changed the reality of my family’s life. Economic stability was within our reach. Our children could choose careers based on their aptitude and interests, and not by coverage options or by being forced poor in order to stay eligible for Medicaid as adults with disabilities.
The ACA is not perfect --
I have yet to find any law that is -- but it is a life-changing, life-saving step forward for our country. Unfortunately, the passage of the ACA did not entirely alleviate our anxiety about the future. We held our breath right up to the moment of the Supreme Court decision. That morning, I was in a doctor’s waiting room with my son, the same boy whose birth fifteen years earlier had made healthcare reform so important for me. We sat together reading the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) blog , knowing the decision was so much bigger than us, but at the same time oh so personal. As the “upheld” tweet came, I turned to him and said, “You have a future.” He smiled and said, “Yes. I’m going to be a dairy farmer.” I cried with relief for my own family and for the generations of children with special health care needs who would grow up in the new health care reality - what a different world it would be for them.
It’s been a wild ride, and it’s not over yet. The ACA is not perfect -- I have yet to find any law that is -- but it is a life-changing, life-saving step forward for our country. I am privileged to have felt its personal impacts and to have stood with so many others for whom this is far bigger than sound bites, rhetoric, and politics.
http://hdwg.org/catalyst/stories/7
Since my wife had cancer in 2000, I am all to familiar with the term uninsurable. The insurance company would not even give us an obscene quote.
Woods
Spieth
Day
Z Johnson
Mahan
Westwood
Blixt
Woodland
Kelly
Huh
tyvm
DB
I was watching....don't get mad, get even.
In Hollywood it's referred to as "The Fountain of Youth" drug.
Hollywood has gone crazy for human growth hormone, with top stars, filmmakers, and studio executives touting its benefits: ripped abs, fewer wrinkles, increased sex drive, more energy (and aggression), etc. With anti-aging clinics prescribing it freely, is H.G.H. a career-saving miracle or a pricey, silly, even hazardous placebo?
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/03/human-grown-hormone-hollywood-201203
Good read Steph, thx for sharing
The 35 Best Times Someone On Facebook Thought ‘The Onion’ Was Real
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/the-35-best-times-someone-on-facebook-thought-the-onion-was-real/
hear hear!
Congrats bud, nice pickin!
excellent story AZ.....if I'm ever in the area I think I'll spend some money.
this is some chit...where you finding this stuff or is it stuff you been holdin out on us
That's Soul Dancing - James Brown, Michael Jackson, Black Dance
Tiger appears out of sorts early...http://www.pga.com/pgachampionship/live/player.html
The Happiest States In America In One Map (INFOGRAPHIC)
Louisiana the gloomiest....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/happiest-states-_n_3696160.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Woods, Bradley, Stenson, Donald, & Day....278
unfucking real! how do these people sleep?
2 More Women Pulled Over, Internally Probed On Public Road By TX Troopers (VIDEO)
I'm f*^&% speechless, who could think this is OK?
http://samuel-warde.com/2013/08/more-texas-women-pulled-over-internally-probed-on-side-of-road-by-troopers-for-anyone-to-see-video/
Christian Children's Entertainer Who Wanted to Eat Kids Gets 20 Years
http://gawker.com/christian-childrens-entertainer-who-wanted-to-eat-kids-1003995633
Fascism, kicked up a notch today in Wisconsin.
Octogenarian Singers Arrested in Wisconsin Capitol
CNN; It's a girl
Borowitz
hmmm, might be money well spent.
none of his guys had tee'd off yet.
Woods, Horschel, Grace, McDowell, Day....278
Mayer Hawthorne: Her Favorite Song
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/mayer-hawthorne-her-favorite-song/n39003/
ARTHUR CONLEY - "Shake, Rattle And Roll" (HD Television Performance
STEPPENWOLF - "Born To Be Wild" (HD Television Performance On
congrats Jordan
automatic member if he can win, would love to see it.
Commentary: It's all about "self-defense" (The most important part about "going out," is "getting back home")
The most important part about This might be off topic for some of you.
However if you once were a Black male teenager or if you have one in your home today, it is absolutely relevant. (and we have a bunch of people like that here.)
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Much of what we discuss here on Soul-Patrol is the whole concept of "going out" to of course see a live show.
We always encourage that.
We think that is the best way to experience music.
To go out. And to experience it live.
-Much better than via recordings.
-Much better than via the internet.
-Much better than via even the greatest of headphones.
Not only is the musical experience an enhanced one. But the social experience is enhanced.
And that means going out. Venturing beyond the relative safety of your home in order to experience not only the music at it's best, but to also in some ways to experience people at their best.
Much of what I have written over the years relative to the live concert experience involved the "bookends" to that experience:
-Getting there
-Getting back home
Sometimes those two "bookends" of the concert experience are even more important in reality than the music itself.
-Especially when you are young.
-Especially when you are Black.
As a part of my concert reviews you have read me discuss "going out and coming back home" parts of the concert review as a major part of the review. I have talked about everything from the trials and tribulations of dealing with traffic, finding gas stations, finding parking, using mass transit, rude venue employees, racist door policies, racist PR & Security people, encounters with the police and more as a part of concert reviews. Some of you hate when I do that. However the whole "going out and coming back home" parts of the concert is many times more important, than the music itself at the end of the night.
I've been "going out and coming back home" nearly every Friday/Saturday night since I was about 15 years old. To a house party, a club, a concert or sometimes all three in the same night for most of my life. And doing so has always carried with it an element of danger.
-Especially when you are young.
-Especially when you are Black.
Never, ever in all of those years, have I ever thought that it was a requirement for me to have to augment the "getting there/getting home" part of the live music experience by carrying a weapon, in order to secure my own personal safety. In fact whenever I was with a group of people "getting there/getting home" and I discovered that someone had a weapon, I would become upset. So upset in fact that there are a few brothas out there who are still mad at me to this day for putting them out of my car and leaving them stranded when I learned that they had a weapon. I have always felt that someone having a gun is going to bring trouble to me.
I have always felt that if you need a weapon in order to go somewhere, maybe, just maybe your best course of action is to simply not go there. No matter how good the show is supposed to be. Better to just stay home.
-Especially when you are young.
-Especially when you are Black.
-On this evening I have begun to feel differently.
-On this evening I find myself thinking that perhaps the NRA is correct.
-On this evening I find myself thinking that maybe we need to start arming our children.
-On this evening I find myself thinking that if I had a son, I might encourage him to start wearing a gun.
-On this evening I find myself thinking that I might encourage all young Black men to start carrying guns.
-On this evening I find myself thinking that I would also encourage those young Black men to make the decision to shoot quickly.
Cuz it's all about "self-defense."
I don't know much about the details of the George Zimmerman case. About the only thing that I do know about the case, is that Trayvon Martin isn't supposed to be dead. All he was doing was trying to get back home from the store.
On this evening I have come to the conclusion that apparently in the state of Florida, the only way that Trayvon Martin would still be alive today, is if he had either:
-Stayed home.
-Or had a gun and shot Zimmerman as soon as he saw him.
And so it seems that in 2013 and if you live in the state of Florida, if you want to leave your house you better have a gun with you at all times and you had better shoot to kill quickly if you want to stay alive.
-Especially when you are young.
-Especially when you are Black.
-Especially when confronted by the Zimmerman's of this world.
Cuz it's all about "self-defense."
On this evening, that is what I would tell my son.
Because the most important part about "going out."
Is to make sure that "you come back home."
--Bob Davis
http://www.soul-patrol.com/
well I use to be proud of my state but it's feeling like it's been relocated south recently...The election of Barrack scared all the closet racists out of the closet.
OH btw, they weren't crazy about me either ... ;) BINGO....black or yankee, but a big difference to many of them.
I have, and worked at my brothers bar near Orlando. Saw some extremely ugly acts of racism, I really had no idea how ugly it could be. What really amazed me was how it was tolerated by pretty much everyone. hated it.
There is no fucking justice........Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57433184/fla-mom-gets-20-years-for-firing-warning-shots/
sweet jam....