Moringa tea tastes like flowers and earth.

[brightlotusmoon]

"Look, I don't want to get into a political fist fight about America's health care issues right now. I'm still figuring shit out. All I know is that I'm speaking as a chronically ill, disabled human being, who would very much like to not have to pay out the ass for prescriptions, doctor visits, specialist visits, and possible hospital visits. If that can happen without people whining and bitching and screaming, that would be fantastic. I don't know who has the best answer. I don't know who I want to fix this. All I want is to make sure that when I'm hurting and flaring and having troublesome symptoms, I won't go broke trying to heal myself. And if you can't understand, then go fuck yourself. I don't have time for your overinflated sense of privilege. I'm tired, and I'm in pain, and I'm going to take a muscle relaxant and wrap myself in a soft fuzzy blanket and drink some tea. Tea may not solve everything, but it helps."

-Me, babbling incoherently today.

Comments

[belasco.livejournal.com]

Tea is good.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Tea makes the world go round. I'm convinced that whatever made the universe had a nice cuppa during the process.

[el-esteleth.livejournal.com]

I agree with you 1000% about health care. I've wished I could find an insurance that would actually cover my visits to my Master Herbalist.

And tea is the best. :)

*hugs*

[poelaramont.livejournal.com]

People are selfish creatures. They don't always work for the good of society. This saddens me, as I think good health should be considered a basic human right.

Of course, I can't be sure that I would hold the exact same view if I wasn't intimately familiar with our broken healthcare system. It really has been a life lesson for me.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Everyone agrees that our health care system is broken. Nobody agrees on how to fix it.

I have yet to hear really convincing arguments either for or against universal health care in this country - or rather, convincing arguments that made it stupidly easy for me to understand.

To me, it all boils down to money. Powerful people keeping their money while making more money, while the people who don't have money get repeatedly kicked and beaten because they won't cooperate and willingly give up their money.

[poelaramont.livejournal.com]

I wish everybody did agree, but I do not think it is so. Lots of heads in the sand on that one.

And yes, it is all about money, sadly. This is why I'm hoping for a Star Trek future, where there is no money.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

A Star Trek future without money has always fascinated me. I have no idea how it would happen other than the whole replicator thing, though.

I keep thinking about products and toys and stuff that I buy online that other people make - like organic skin care, or stuff from Etsy. Would those just be replicated, right in my house?

[poelaramont.livejournal.com]

I'm also fascinated by the idea. There would be a lot fewer jobs without certain portions of the production and service industry. Then again, with no need for money, there would be no need for those jobs. So long, world hunger and lack of drinkable water. The medicine is good, too. Damn it, not I really want to live in that future. Especially on a starship.

Well, I know they can replicate stuff like guitars, so as long as you have the "blueprint" for it, I'm sure a replicator can handle it.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

And how exactly would certain foods replicate? What about cooking; what if you wanted to cook? Would you just replicate all the individual ingredients? Hmm. Well, they did kind of work with that in "Voyager" I guess, with Neelix...

And nobody would really need most jobs, unless you needed administrative jobs or something, or library jobs, or technician jobs. Because let's face it, technology will always need humans.

[poelaramont.livejournal.com]

Replicating ingredients would be the best bet, but I'm sure if you wanted to go crazy, you could just replicate the seeds and grow your own stuff.

I wonder what good I would be in this fantastic world. I'd probably end up the Enterprise's janitor.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Wait, does the Enterprise need a janitor?

[poelaramont.livejournal.com]

An interesting question, and one I was pondering when I made the comment. I've never seen any sort of janitorial staff, but neither have I seen any form of automated cleaning system.

Well, if I can't do that, I can always go to barber school, because I know they have barbers.

[shinryou.livejournal.com]

Could not said that better myself.
I toast you with my tea....

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

I toast back!

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

word.

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

I ordered some teabags, they came in a flimsy envelope, and the dogs chewed it open, and did I know not what to the bags themselves. Wah!

I heard that most of the bankruptcies and foreclosures are due to exorbitant medical bills have to stop this. An old acquaintance of mine died yesterday. Because friends took her in, and I presume, did not charge her rent, she was able to afford chemo after a dx of multiple myelomas. It had to be suspended when she got pneumonia in order to treat it, and when she resumed chemo, it didn't seem to have as strong an effect.