it's always like a 1000 page bill and they sneak shit in. everybody is busy/tired/bored and they just pass it instead of getting into a pissing match about a few million bucks. rinse and repeat enough times = congratulations youre bankrupt
I actually highly disagree with your stance, but only for specific cases/people - not the trans crap.
The one area of the govt I want to keep doing their thing is the military. Military hospitals often do elective or specific surgeries or treatments so the can stay trained on things like replacing limbs, head/brain issues, fixing disfigurements, or even trying to fix someone whose reproductive systems were messed up by enemy fire. Things like boob jobs for women soldiers who were severely burned (or shot up), other types of plastic surgeries, or even stuff like dental implants for someone who had their jaw shot up.
The military will consider surgeries/procedures/treatments that they believe will be needed during wartime to make our injured soldiers have as close to a normal life as they can. Places like BAMC in San Antonio,Texas will even help civilians who were badly burned so they can help our soldiers when they come back in the same condition. Some military hospitals will even do surgeries on gunshot wounds or other things they expect to happen during war. BAMC is a level-1 trauma center and often does stuff like that for civilians. Many military surgeons also commonly work at the local civilian hospitals for the same reasons. The practice and exposure they get in huge, rough cities for trauma situations is worth every penny.
I've posted before about how Bethesda Naval (now part of Walter Reed) helped me and my wife by doing a rare surgery on her ovaries to "kill them off" for a while so they wouldn't keep hyper-producing eggs. They drilled about 60 holes in her ovaries, causing them to shut down while they healed.
We had spent a year with all the hormone treatments (I gave her every shot) while they got the permission to do her surgery - which provided a 6-week window (after she healed) for her to get pregnant. It worked, and we had a daughter. That surgery not only helped us, but it trained them on how to deal with a woman who was shot in the same area. I was active duty, but my wife was not. The military will do some infertility treatments on the civilian spouses, but not usually an experimental surgery. However - if it is something they will likely need to help wounded soldiers the doctors will jump at the chance to get that experience and will fight to get permission.
Yeah, I agree with you. When I broke my back in '01 shortly after 9/11, I was told by both my Navy Doc and the Army surgeon who did the fusion that it was elective. Without that surgery, I most likely would've been in a wheelchair before my 26th birthday. I had completely shattered L-5, cracked both L-4 and S-1, and the disc between L5-S1 was pretty much blown apart and was leaking everywhere. L-5 was in dozens of pieces. What they didn't know until opening me up was that the left Sciatic Nerve was just being held together by a sliver of the nerve sheath and had to be down together. What should been a relatively easy spinal fusion took a team of doctors more than 8 hrs to accomplish because of the amount of damage.
What made me decide on the surgery was the surgeon telling me all I had to do was twitch just the right way and I would've lost complete use of my left leg and would be wheel chair bound forever. And that was considered an "elective surgery."
Be careful with that fusion. I had c5-7 surgery in '04. Two herniated discs. They put on a titanium hour-glass shaped mesh with 2 screws each in C5,6,7 to hold it on. Fast-forward to 2004 when I finally started my VA disability claim, and they took x-rays of my neck. Three - or possibly 4 - of the screws were broken with half in the bone and half just stuck in the mesh. Two of the remaining 3 were pushing their way out of the bone and were working their way entirely out.
Twenty+ years is a long time for a fusion to last. The bone is healed but the hardware is wearing out. I may have to get it fixed - especially with pointy screws having the potential to tear my neck and esophagus up. Be conscious of any weird pains on your fusion. Yours is older than mine.
BTW - if you haven't done so (assuming you have a VA disability case - don't forget to claim radiculopathy on both legs at least on the femoral and sciatic nerves. Everyone forgets to do that and the VA doesn't remind you. Here's some info: https://cck-law.com/blog/radiculopathy-and-va-disability-benefits/ but I'd just look on youtube.
Things like boob jobs for women soldiers who were severely burned (or shot up)
I’d rather we get women away from combat zones if they’re going to be in the military, but there may be logistical issues with that in addition to too many people having “equality” concerns instead of letting men keep women safe.
We had spent a year with all the hormone treatments (I gave her every shot) while they got the permission to do her surgery - which provided a 6-week window (after she healed) for her to get pregnant. It worked, and we had a daughter.
Appreciate it. That surgery was invented in the early 1980s and went through a few changes for the next roughly 15 years as more doctor's were trained and more methods were tried. My wife' surgery was soon after one of the final major changes so it certainly helped Bethesda get on equal footing with civilian healthcare.
Oh, that to me is not "elective surgery" aka: It is not broke, I am not paying to fix it. I am so delighted to hear they were able to heal your specific problems! Examples given, the body was not functioning correctly, Military personal and their families do get benefits and that is great!.. however, if the military is paying for a wifes boob job or nose job, not because their was something wrong with them but, because she felt "she was meant to have huge boobs or a smaller nose", nope.. pay for it with a supplementary insurance tyvm .
Trans typically have 100% functional bodies already and just want to change their bodies to look different, (to make them NON functional bodies) that often lead to lifetime need of medications (that they want paid for as well)... Nope, 100% no.. Those breasts were working as intended and doing FINE, if you want to resize them or cut them off, not because they have cancer but, you just dont like them, that is Elective surgery and, that is on your dime not mine(aka the taxpayers). lol.. anyway. dis.
I don't really have anything for this but wild speculation.
But bottom line, to me, this looks like Senate GOP is thinking the midterms will be a loss, control will change hands, and may even signal this time they will go along with impeachment and convict Trump.
WTH?? How the heck did this pass the senate in the first place?😡
it's always like a 1000 page bill and they sneak shit in. everybody is busy/tired/bored and they just pass it instead of getting into a pissing match about a few million bucks. rinse and repeat enough times = congratulations youre bankrupt
There should be ZERO tax payer money going to ANY elective surgeries for anyone, at any age.
I actually highly disagree with your stance, but only for specific cases/people - not the trans crap.
The one area of the govt I want to keep doing their thing is the military. Military hospitals often do elective or specific surgeries or treatments so the can stay trained on things like replacing limbs, head/brain issues, fixing disfigurements, or even trying to fix someone whose reproductive systems were messed up by enemy fire. Things like boob jobs for women soldiers who were severely burned (or shot up), other types of plastic surgeries, or even stuff like dental implants for someone who had their jaw shot up.
The military will consider surgeries/procedures/treatments that they believe will be needed during wartime to make our injured soldiers have as close to a normal life as they can. Places like BAMC in San Antonio,Texas will even help civilians who were badly burned so they can help our soldiers when they come back in the same condition. Some military hospitals will even do surgeries on gunshot wounds or other things they expect to happen during war. BAMC is a level-1 trauma center and often does stuff like that for civilians. Many military surgeons also commonly work at the local civilian hospitals for the same reasons. The practice and exposure they get in huge, rough cities for trauma situations is worth every penny.
I've posted before about how Bethesda Naval (now part of Walter Reed) helped me and my wife by doing a rare surgery on her ovaries to "kill them off" for a while so they wouldn't keep hyper-producing eggs. They drilled about 60 holes in her ovaries, causing them to shut down while they healed.
We had spent a year with all the hormone treatments (I gave her every shot) while they got the permission to do her surgery - which provided a 6-week window (after she healed) for her to get pregnant. It worked, and we had a daughter. That surgery not only helped us, but it trained them on how to deal with a woman who was shot in the same area. I was active duty, but my wife was not. The military will do some infertility treatments on the civilian spouses, but not usually an experimental surgery. However - if it is something they will likely need to help wounded soldiers the doctors will jump at the chance to get that experience and will fight to get permission.
Our daughter will turn 30 next month.
That's great, God bless your family and thank you for your service.
Thanks. I miss it.
I get it. It's real, it's fun but it's not real fun. Can't do anything in life like it when you're a civvie.
Yeah, I agree with you. When I broke my back in '01 shortly after 9/11, I was told by both my Navy Doc and the Army surgeon who did the fusion that it was elective. Without that surgery, I most likely would've been in a wheelchair before my 26th birthday. I had completely shattered L-5, cracked both L-4 and S-1, and the disc between L5-S1 was pretty much blown apart and was leaking everywhere. L-5 was in dozens of pieces. What they didn't know until opening me up was that the left Sciatic Nerve was just being held together by a sliver of the nerve sheath and had to be down together. What should been a relatively easy spinal fusion took a team of doctors more than 8 hrs to accomplish because of the amount of damage.
What made me decide on the surgery was the surgeon telling me all I had to do was twitch just the right way and I would've lost complete use of my left leg and would be wheel chair bound forever. And that was considered an "elective surgery."
Be careful with that fusion. I had c5-7 surgery in '04. Two herniated discs. They put on a titanium hour-glass shaped mesh with 2 screws each in C5,6,7 to hold it on. Fast-forward to 2004 when I finally started my VA disability claim, and they took x-rays of my neck. Three - or possibly 4 - of the screws were broken with half in the bone and half just stuck in the mesh. Two of the remaining 3 were pushing their way out of the bone and were working their way entirely out.
Twenty+ years is a long time for a fusion to last. The bone is healed but the hardware is wearing out. I may have to get it fixed - especially with pointy screws having the potential to tear my neck and esophagus up. Be conscious of any weird pains on your fusion. Yours is older than mine.
BTW - if you haven't done so (assuming you have a VA disability case - don't forget to claim radiculopathy on both legs at least on the femoral and sciatic nerves. Everyone forgets to do that and the VA doesn't remind you. Here's some info: https://cck-law.com/blog/radiculopathy-and-va-disability-benefits/ but I'd just look on youtube.
I’d rather we get women away from combat zones if they’re going to be in the military, but there may be logistical issues with that in addition to too many people having “equality” concerns instead of letting men keep women safe.
That’s awesome!
Appreciate it. That surgery was invented in the early 1980s and went through a few changes for the next roughly 15 years as more doctor's were trained and more methods were tried. My wife' surgery was soon after one of the final major changes so it certainly helped Bethesda get on equal footing with civilian healthcare.
Oh, that to me is not "elective surgery" aka: It is not broke, I am not paying to fix it. I am so delighted to hear they were able to heal your specific problems! Examples given, the body was not functioning correctly, Military personal and their families do get benefits and that is great!.. however, if the military is paying for a wifes boob job or nose job, not because their was something wrong with them but, because she felt "she was meant to have huge boobs or a smaller nose", nope.. pay for it with a supplementary insurance tyvm .
Trans typically have 100% functional bodies already and just want to change their bodies to look different, (to make them NON functional bodies) that often lead to lifetime need of medications (that they want paid for as well)... Nope, 100% no.. Those breasts were working as intended and doing FINE, if you want to resize them or cut them off, not because they have cancer but, you just dont like them, that is Elective surgery and, that is on your dime not mine(aka the taxpayers). lol.. anyway. dis.
What????
Bathune WTF.
Who are the fucking Repib traitors who voted for this?!
https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/2047460304825552940?s=20
Bigger image of letter in post - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGoKS8eXQAALM6C?format=jpg&name=large
I don't really have anything for this but wild speculation.
But bottom line, to me, this looks like Senate GOP is thinking the midterms will be a loss, control will change hands, and may even signal this time they will go along with impeachment and convict Trump.
Not dooming, but like I said, wild speculation.