I have to laugh because all my doctors were on board with this diet back in the days, over 10 years ago, that I had insurance. Then George lost his job as they relocated to a cheaper place, namely Texas, and he was old and highly paid. So, out the door after over 30 years of service and more patents than anyone in the company, he went.

We managed to hold on to a year of COBRA although it was $10.00 a month more than he was getting in unemployment compensation. You might want to read that sentence again. We paid the ten bucks out of his severance. Then, no more insurance until Obamacare. 

What happened with these lovely doctors, most of whom had treated me for 10 years or more and some of whom I was friends with from when I worked in the medical field? 

Well, the testa all showed I was diabetic and not one of them said a word because they knew without insurance I could not afford treatment or medication. Over 2 yeara later when Obamacare came in and I got insurance the first thing a doctor did was put me in the hospital for diabetes. They didn't know why I was still alive and even more, how I drove to the hospital in that condition. A couple of days later the insurance company demanded I be released because they weren't going to pay. Seems my Obama policy didn't cover dying from diabetes as a reason for hospitalization. None of the policies actually covered much of anything so I was anxious to finally qualify for Medicare which I have discovered covers even less. 

In about 5 years when I manage to pay off the last hospitalization, I should be allowed to go to the emergency room to die. Until then, it would be a good idea to not try and get any care at any hospital since they are all linked together via computer. Doctors, it seems are unable to actually do anything for you that requires getting up and administering treatment. Why should they? My squirrel gets more peanuts than they do just for looking cute.

And that is the real state of medical care in this country. If you are rich and I do mean rich, you get it. If you are in the other 98%, you die. Unfortunately I don't see Medicare for All actually fixing it simply because of the above paragraph. Medicare is the very least medical care you can get and it is all you get. 

Right now I am in the same position I was with insurance my entire life. I can't afford the deductible and co-pays to go to the doctor with Medicare. I sure as hell can't afford the basic 2,400.00 a day in the hospital costs due to the Medicare Gap. I can't afford supplemental insurance. The actual cost of it shocked an insurance agent! 

That's really the rub as the Bard would say. When you hear that Congress has the same policies you do, you feel kind of equal but on their salary and expense account, they can afford the deductible, co-pays and drug costs you can't/ They can afford to use the policy. You can't.

Now those that opted for the cheap really high deductible policies don't ever notice they come with payout limits. Once accident and they are bankrupt but here is what you don't know. Bush, Jr. revamped the bankruptcy laws and you aren't going to be able to file for bankruptcy. You will be homeless, carless and on the streets WITH THE BILLS FOLLOWING YOU. If you have a phone you will be hounded daily. If you try to rent, you won't be approved. Apply for a job and most places do a credit check. You won't get a job. 

That is the state of medical care in this glorious somewhere around 4th world country.

Just remember, if you can't fit it in a paid for car and also afford the insurance for said vehicle, you are one misstep away from losing it, one hospital bill away.

When are we rich?

The only time I feel somewhat rich is in Dollar Store and in my garden.

The only bags around here are Dollar Tree and Lowes.

This leads me to ask, does anyone know why construction materials have gone up in price. Lumber is up 110% in one year and 10% in the last month. 

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 Increased demand for single-family housing, much of it driven by the coronavirus pandemic, has housing starts up 30% year over year, according to the U.S. Census."

Now we all have to ask... with unemployment at it highest due to the pandemic. Foreclosures and evictions are poised to be catastrophic once the moratorium is over.

Who the Hell is going to buy all these new houses?

Why are banks financing the construction?

Is someone lying to us?

"New numbers from the National Association of Home Builders shows that since mid-April of 2020, lumber prices have risen by 130%, and those increased costs have increased the cost of single-family homes more than $16,000 on average"

And it is just not lumber that is going up in price. Remodeling is going through the roof, too.

Guess what dear ones.... This is a legacy from good old Trump. As I keep saying, we may have beat the rap but not the ride and it isn't over yet. How the Hell are we going to afford the improvements to the infrastructure with these inflated prices due to Trump's Tariffs? The one line in this article that really caused me to pause was "“Whoever the home buyers are, they have been able to pay for it,” said Todd Tomalak, who tracks building products for John Burns Real Estate Consulting."

Yes, we should all be asking with everyone out of work and about to be evicted or foreclosed on, WHO ARE THESE BUYERS?

 Death of a Monarch

It seldom seems like a Monarch is much more than a figure head and people tend to forget that they are people with lives, loves, mistakes and regrets just like the rest of us.

I have seen on social media that Prince Charles hated his father and the tension can be seen in the pictures but otherwise, this is a lovely testimony to the love of two people and that, too, can clearly be seen.

Prince Philip: A life in pictures.

04-11-2021

Because of the crap Facebook has been pulling, this is the new home for Cosmic Janice's page.

All I can say is what goes around, comes around.

A couple of weeks ago I received a survey from one of the political survey companies I work for, hey, it's a few pennies and money is short, and the first question was who did I vote for and it was the last question, too. The other questions were about breaking up Facebook and Amazon and did I support it, what did I feel about their privacy controls and so forth. I had not heard anything about any of this and thought it was pretty weird because they kept asking if I read or heard about this anywhere. I chalked it up to someone with too much money to waste on buying surveys trying to plant ideas in people's heads and find out where they would go with them.

The next week I am not only hacked through Facebook by a follower... not even a friend and they manage to create mirror GOOGLE accounts as mine so they could sign in and use my account under their name. I found this out after Facebook banned me from sharing Lost Pet photos and the a couple of days later from sharing anything. I never got a single warning or notice from Facebook and there is no record on my page of restrictions. Apparently you are limited to 5 shares per day and there is even a limit on posts.. and yet, I get 7 of the same photo posted by Chinese companies all the time to my time-line. I guess there are several sets of rules and pagan, Liberals get the most restrictive of them.

Other friends are getting out of Facebook jail over posts. I was restricted from selling anything or live videos over a 2016 post for a month. 2016!!! Facebook standards change daily. If they go backwards with today's changes, they can probably put everyone in Facebook jail. Now a person had their post removed by Facebook because it was too depressing. 

Since this is quickly moving through all of Facebook, want to bet how long it stays afloat?

Let's look at this objectively. Both Facebook and Amazon were started as a lark by rich boy dropouts. There was no real business plan and definitely no plan for growth. There was no objective beyond make money. In short, it was a wet dream that reached fruition and now we are looking at the monster it birthed. A business like that cannot survive because it has no purpose, no foundation and no real structure. It is running on the fly and the only people who have ever succeeded at that are psychics. These guys really aren't that smart and they fire anyone who doesn't tell them what they want to hear. 

You look at two of the richest men in the world and what do they do, buy toys to play with? They could do so much for the world. You may hate Bill Gates but at least he is trying to do something. It might be the wrong or right something depending on your view, but it is something. I mean these fart fellows are so smart they buy multi-million dollar homes in California which it either shaking itself into the sea or burning down. I may have to deal with hurricanes but I have been dealing with them all my life. You build right, buy a generator and a chain saw. There is little you can do to fight an earthquake or fire or volcanic eruption. That is why no matter how much I love Hawaii and California, I am not crazy enough to move there. I don't live in a trailer in tornado alley or build on a flood plain. That is just common sense. They don't seem to have it or more likely, to the rich, everything is disposable. Collect the insurance and move somewhere that strikes your fancy. That is the same way they treat their users and customers.

Unfortunately their users and customers do not have the luxury of moving on or the money for insurance or we would all have our own websites and tell them where to go.

In other news on a purely metaphysical practical level, just about every platform for selling and credit cards is restricting psychics and psychic merchandise. The old "alleged" trick no longer works. At first it was only really evil companies that allowed you to complete a credit card merchant application, sell you hundreds of dollars worth of equipment and then say, sorry, you do not meet our standards, have a great day and by the way, as per the contract you signed, we just emptied your bank account for our pain and suffering of doing this to you.

Oh no, now established platforms are starting to play the same game like Ebay and Etsy. Paypal is even getting in on it and you have to be very careful how you accept payments through them. All these companies demand access to your bank account so they can make deposits and withdrawals. Soon everything psychic will be on a cash only basis just like before.

As they said in the 60's, you might beat the rap but you ain't beating the ride and the Evangelicals may not have the White House but they have the police, local governments and banks. That pretty much screws us. 

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