Yes! When I was growing up, my mom had us budgeted to within an inch of our lives. My parents both had hourly wage jobs with little job security, so she didn’t want to put anything on a credit card. Literally, an unexpected $20 copay would have put us into “What are we going to do?” territory.

Serious question...by economic hardship, do the patients have to prove it? Like is it like applying for an application fee waiver to college where you are going to have to show records to prove that the household has x members being supported on $y? Or can the patient just say, “Hey, I can’t pay this co-pay?”

Sometimes they prevent people in dire circumstances from seeking needed care. But more often, they discourage abuse.

Wang is the most common Chinese surname. There are close to 100 million people with it just in China.

First of all, I’m definitely with you on not being a fan of the Kardashians, so I’m not trying to defend them, but of course people are more interested in them than the actors who play characters on those TV shows. Every instagram post, tweet, or papparazzi photo of a Kardashian/Jenner is a sneak preview of the show.…

? According to the sources I read, she asked for a wave. I can see that situations that you are describing could be tough, but everything I read says that is is not one of those cases.

Does that pertain to this article at all, or just an unrelated opinion?

She asked for a haircut that they give to men though. Is there a particular reason that doing a wave on a man is different than giving the same haircut to a woman?

This woman does indeed have a traditionally male hairstyle. In fact, it is not that uncommon now. Heck, I have friends who don’t have a traditionally male hairstyle but do have part of their head shaved, and so they need to go in for maintenance for the shaved part fairly often.

Having lived in a big city, and a small town (and regularly visiting my dad in a tiny town), I think this:

Thanks.

These days? I feel like there are stories like this all the time.

I’d be mad if I were a TV personality and someone named a toy after me without permission.

No, she thinks it’s unfair that people can use her photo to advertise their product and make money without her permission.

Agreed, the headline suggests she is trying to sue anonymous internet commenters for saying she’s old. I don’t know anything about her (but by reading some of the other comments, it seems like maybe she’s terrible?), but her actions in this case seem reasonable.

Yeah, just came to comment about this...I don’t even really understand what it means.

EXACTLY! I have no problem with people who enjoy doing this kind of thing. I have no problem with people who devote hours to thinking up/doing this. We all have different priorities. But I have a Facebook friend (I keep her because I like to hate-read her stuff) who makes the cutiest stuff for family movie night—like…

I don’t think most people are up in arms over the idea of bento boxes for lunch. I think it’s a good set up and allows for much less packaging waste.

I think the difference between what your sister is doing and what people are complaining about is who it’s for. Your sister is obviously doing it for her daughter. And it works! Like you said, win/win. I’m also going to guess that your sister doesn’t plaster it all over social media with a gazillion and a half hash…

This is just such a bizzarre reason...I don’t know any kids who worried about not having a younger sibling. I know a few who wanted a younger sibling.