Political Joe TAN (Page 2)

Try having two at once..........it was stupid how little we slept.....and then we met a gal with triplets, and felt normal again.  

As for budget......there was a 3 or 4 month period, before I got my schedule worked out a bit and we also found a remarkable woman who came to our home to watch the kids when we were working, where we were paying 1800.00 per month for childcare.  I wanted to eat one of the twins.

When I was in Middle school I had a paper route in Sioux City, IA and had to walk around my trailer park delivering about 350 papers.  Took me a good 2 to 3 hours if I had to walk it, but I would usually ride my moped as long as there wasn't snow/ice on the roads.

One winter morning in the late 80's I remember the temperature being around -25° F with a wind chill of something like -60° F.  My moped engine was frozen solid and I had to walk the whole thing.  I didn't have long underwear or snowpants either so I remember stopping at several houses where people were awake just to thaw out for a few minutes.  That morning was very painful.  Oh, and a bunch of old people still yelled at me for their paper being late. lol

just did a google.  Might have been in 1985 because it seems to correlate to this article:
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-21/news/mn-14199_1_temperature-records

I bet it was uphill all the way around too.

How'd you know?  lol

Well, there were a lot of hills, so I was going up and down the whole route.  Good ole Hollyville  (http://www.mobilehomeparkstore.com/mobile-home-parks/60203-holiday-village-in-sioux-city-ia)

The high deductible "catastrophic" plans are the only thing that makes sense for people my age, it is a shame they are going away.

I went to the doc when I was a kid for broken bones only, nothing else. 

From 18-28 (current) I have been once. And it was because I was working for the County government and was planning on quitting. Because it was free to go I went and did everything, no real need but I figured if I was going to have insurance for another month I better find out if I was terminally ill or something.

It is sad that the ACA did absolutely nothing about the cost of healthcare. My brother in-law is the same age as me, found out a few weeks ago that he had testicular cancer. It was a simple out patient procedure to have it removed but the cost is still going to be over $20k for them out of pocket. Not small change for a hair stylist and a welder. A few weeks after the surgery he went in for a test and they found his cancer levels higher than they were before the surgery, so they started to talk chemo. Four sessions of chemo was going to be over $100k. My sister and he just bought their first house and were staring down the barrel of losing that house. Luckily a subsequent test had the levels lower so he may clear up on his own yet. 

I just can't help but think we would all be better off if an outpatient procedure didn't cost $30k (more if they were insured) and a session of chemo wasn't $25k. Absolutely ridiculous IMO. 

Exactly.  I just recently got done writing a check to cover my out of pocket for my knee surgery. $100.00.   I was kind of pizzed off.  The hernia surgery I had 3 years ago only cost me 50 bucks.

When you were a kid did you never get strep throat or anything like that? I seemed to get it every couple of years.

Hope your healthy good luck streak continues - wow!

See....that's bullchit that you only pay $100.00.  We have to pay $230.00 per month for our entire family.  Still, doctor visits are free so I guess it all evens out.

I broke my arm once as a kid.  My dad put my arm/cast in a vise and took it off with a hammer and chisel.  He said he didn't see the point in paying a doctor.

My oldest daughter sat between my twins when they were in car seats.  One of the twins had her arm hanging out, broke both bones in her forearm right in half.  8 weeks later they took the cast off and realized they had missed that her elbow was dislocated.  They had to put her to sleep and re-break her arm to put her elbow back in place.  Probably the hardest I have ever cried in my life....she was only 2.

Nope, never been for an illness, just the clinic for a broken leg, arm, ankle, etc. I have never had an antibiotic. I don't have anything to back this up at all but I don't really like the idea of antibiotics. My wife's family is borderline hypochondriac and love going to the doctor for every little thing. My wife was of a similar mindset having been born with a brain tumor that wasn't correctly diagnosed until she was 12, so she grew up in the doctor's office. They all seem to get sick more often and when they do get sick it is much worse. My wife gets sick a lot and grew up on antibiotics, when she manages to get me sick I always come out much better than her.

Like I said, just extremely wild conjecture, but I don't like antibiotics, and generally don't think they are a good idea. I won't go to a doc unless I am bleeding profusely or have seriously broken something. Might eventually bite me in the rear, but it has been going okay so far. Rub some dirt in it or walk it off!

Like I said earlier I am sad to see the catastrophic plans go, given my wife's history I wouldn't mind paying bottom dollar for something that just makes sure we don't have to declare bankruptcy if something goes wrong. Like a $20k deductible or something with no other benefits. I could stomach paying $50-100 a month for something like that. But the cheapest plan my wife was able to find this summer was $450 a month just for her and that was pre-ACA, don't even want to know what it would be now. We are dual income no kids so the subsidy thing isn't likely to help. She is hoping to get her bosses to pony up for healthcare sometime in the near future, but who knows if that will happen. 

My mom was an RN and my dad was an X-Ray tech. 

I went to an endocrinologist for a growth hormone issue for about 18 months, and an orthopedist to set a broken hand once.  That was the extent of my "doctor" visits. 

As a side note, Mom enjoyed administering my delatestryl shots every 3 weeks.