I have, unfortunately, a lengthy history with the healthcare system, including pharmaceutical companies, thanks to my former S.O. who suffers from Crohn’s disease and I am firmly in the kill them all camp. I agree Obamacare will have to be overhauled BUT I think it did the politically invaluable thing which is getting…

I’m very happy to live somewhere that recognized my need both times I applied for aid. I can’t imagine what it’s like in red states. I’m for a single payer system so we can all just get taken care of whenever we need it without having to add another mountain of paperwork to our endless to do lists. Staying current on…

No because I live in the Bronx ;). I did start my second pregnancy on employer provided insurance and had to switch in my second trimester when I got fired - and I had to find a new doctor. But if all is well that ends well, I had no problems with Medicaid. It’s probably fair to say that I had to spend slightly more…

Seriously. Ugh. You can’t cause FAS as easily as people think and the evidence of that is literally everywhere around us.

I don’t know I’ve had a couple medicaid babies and it’s hard to imagine how much better it might have been. They covered everything (I’m in nyc).

My doctor was about to give me a test and then just happened to mention that it wasn’t covered so I’d have to pay $200 - like she really almost didn’t even mention that to me. When I responded like “Oh god, forget it then” she and the 2 nurses there looked at me like I was completely insane. The test was some vague…

I appreciate your lengthy post but it’s been a few days since I was in this thread and if you read my other responses you’ll find responses to some of what you’ve laid down here.

Yes. She was exactly the person they did not want to include in the editorial process for very obvious reasons.

Jesus christ. Imagine what they must have gone through after that. If my kid came home and told me something like that I’d be all “GIVE ME THEIR FULL NAMES AND ADDRESSES”.

Chose against commenting to preserve my sanity, so thank you.

Came to say the same. I mean he spends a long time going into how the longform concept contributed to this, but to me this is a straight up tale of institutionalized racism - they left her off the original email for a reason. In their minds they probably thought something like “she’ll complain about side issues” but…

Well I followed it somewhat closely when it happened but it’s fair to say I learned a lot in my reading yesterday. One thing I missed in all that reading though, was discharge residue on his hand. Also, posters on here invoke the fake broken eye socket on Darren Wilson and then forget to mention the racist woman who…

Were you there? If not you are in the same boat as I am, reading largely inconsistent accounts of what went down. What is clear to me at least is that Darren Wilson embellished the danger and fear he felt to justify his actions, and was the rather unhinged aggressor at the start of the interaction, which lays the…

Yeah I guess I just fundamentally disagree with the notion that if a person does anything besides submit completely to whatever an officer is dishing out, then they have played a role in what happens to them. This to me is a very clear cut example of police abuse.

I read that article earlier. The angle of the gunshots and blood are probably the most compelling to me, but even that evidence indicates that the deadly interaction began AFTER Brown had retreated, and not when he was at the car window, either defending himself against Wilson or assaulting Wilson depending on who you…

Well I agree with a lot of what you say here but you are overlooking a few things. That police department has a long history of problems stemming from a racist culture within the department, including, historically, a large overlap between the force and the local KKK chapter. Initiatives such as the jaywalking…

Can you elaborate? How can autopsy and forensics determine who initiated an altercation?

In all the reading I’ve done today the assault boils down to he said she said. The only “evidence” is a red mark on Wilson’s cheek which could be the result of an altercation HE initiated, as many witnesses attested to. The stories are all over the place, frustratingly so, so I don’t know how you are so sure that it’s…

I’ve done a bunch of reading today and it sounds like, from both points of view, Wilson opened the interaction by telling them to get the fuck off the street, and they responded by saying they were almost to their destination - both sides agree that Wilson then reversed into them, and the account on Brown’s side says…

I think it’s heavy handed to label him a violent thug. I think what he did in the convenience store, if he went on in life to have a pattern of similar behavior that did not correct as he got a few years older, would make him like, maybe, a Mildly violent thug, but really just more of a tool, and certainly a fucking…