FIL did not need skilled nursing care, he was just unable to care for himself, so assisted living would have been sufficient for him. Unfortunate,y that type of care is not available under Medicaid (at least that is what we were told) so he lived in a nursing home for many years.

My mistake, I meant $12000 per month, not year. My FIL paid $3400/mo almost 20 years ago. Once his assets were depleted and Medicaid took over, they let him keep $35/month and took the rest of his pension and social security payments.

A big question is, why DOES it cost $12,000 per year to get a bed in a tiny room in a nursing home. Pretty much every middle class person who lives beyond their ability to care for themselves will find themselves having to turn to Medicaid. First you must spend down all your assets, then the facility will assess your total income from all sources, and then take almost every penny of it for your substandard care. You will be left with a tiny stipend for personal needs.

I don't claim to be an expert on this matter, but I have watched it unfold for many elderly family members

Funny you should say that. When I first moved here, I had trouble estimating age, which is an important skill for a police officer. Forty year old white women in Fl looked like 70 year olds anywhere else.

Ah ... .keyboard damage due to lightning, first it's typos then I'm next. Pray for me.

Wow, 7 deaths of yer in a population of 22 million. It is only a matter of time before,
It gets me. Should i just stay indoors? Or maybe just move someplace miserable and cold.

Phew, what a relief, we have Chat JPT to figure this out for us.

#11 JpW, U.N Inspectors found particles of 83.7% U 235 in 2023.

Nope, it is a very commonly used medication for both men and women for a variety of illnesses. Women on methotrexate have always been required or strongly encouraged to use reliable contraception, because methotrexate does not reliably cause abortion and can cause birth defects in surviving infants.

When used for abortion, methotrexate is administered in combination with other drugs (such as misoprostol) over a period of days. The methotrexate slows progression and the misoprostal then expels it from the uterus. The way methotrexate is utilized for an ectopic pregnancy is quite different. Methotrexate is injected as an urgent solo therapy to halt cell division in a rapidly growing embryo so it will not burst the tiny fallopian tube. This usually takes place in a hospital setting where the patient is closely monitored.

Your insistence that they are exactly the same thing is the kind of dangerous misinformation I am trying to address.Taunting me is just a sick, twisted game you like to play.

"All of those are medical procedures are abortion. Even removing a dead fetus by vacuum aspiration to suck the dead fetus out of the uterus via the vagina is still an abortion."

Yep, those are all abortion procedures, none of which are applicable to an ectopic pregnancy, because it isn't in the uterus. If you insist on calling administration of methotrexate an "abortion procedure", then my 12 year nephew has had hundreds of abortion procedures, because he is on methotrexate for a chronic disease.

"Some of you insist this all because of the draconian laws being passed by the far right. Other claim it's because of malicious compliance by the left."

It is both. I have made it very clear that I am in favor of NEITHER of those things. The laws shouldn't have been passed in the first place, but now that they are on the books, it is DANGEROUS disservice to women to misrepresent what those laws state. MULTIPLE women have died because they didn't get treatment that was COMPLETELY within the law, but was denied to them ANYWAY because of FEAR on the part of doctors who leaned into this sort of misinformation that has been recklessly spread as a form of protest.

Thanks for the analysis. JPW

Interesting you bring up medical care. He is likely eligible for various veterans benefits, will he have access to that in Korea?

Wierd, she is usually such a MAGA fangirl. It's always funny to watch her at televised events maneuvering to get close to him.

This is insanity

So much misinformation. The "medical procedure" known as abortion is vacuum aspiration to suck the fetus out of the uterus via the vagina. Considering an ectopic pregnancy is not and will never become a fetus, and is not and will never be in the uterus, and cannot be removed by vacuum aspiration, or via the vagina using any method Laparoscopic surgery through the abdominal wall is required to remove an ectopic pregnancy nd that is not the same medical procedure as an abortion, nor does it have the same CPT coding.

If you consider administering methotrexate to be a "Medical procedure", that will also will have different CPT coding because it will include the coding for the drug AND the diagnosis, which could be for termination of pregnancy, treatment of an ectopic pregnancy, or treating a Variety of other illnesses like endometriosis psoriasis, Crohn's disease or lymphoma. All of these have differnt CPT coding. Just because they use the same drug doesn't make them the same thing.

Doctors know (or should know) that treatment of a non-uterine "pregnancy" is not, and has never been considered an abortion from a medical standpoint.

#5 I agree 100%. Imagine that ... They should not be able to perform ultrasounds at all, or provide any services that could mislead a woman into believing she was getting actual health care.

I'm betting the legal departments of most hospitals have detailed written guidance on everything from medications to mental health treatment to mop bucket storage. It isn't too much to ask them to keep personnel informed about the "nuances" of this legislation.

Maybe when the malpractice lawsuits start paying out, they will figure out they can comply with the law and keep their patients from dying at the same time.

Agreed, and also, any facility offering emergency care has a legal department. It is their job to stay apprised of legislation that impacts their business and publish advisories to inform the non-lawyers on staff.

I am appalled at the way these laws are being used as an excuse to cover for tragic, preventable deaths of pregnant women due to reckless acts of negligent malpractice.

I am also against the imposition of these draconian abortion laws.

I'd be happy if they read their medical books. You know, the ones that say ectopic pregnancies are not ever viable pregnancies and always threaten the life of the mother.

I am NOT a supporter of the Florida abortion statute, but no matter how poorly it was thought through, it is clear there was no intent to punish doctors who act in good faith to protect their patients. Exactly zero doctors have been prosecuted under this statute.

Meanwhile, there are too many stories of women dying or becoming critically ill because doctors put their patients lives at risk due to their own ignorance concerning these laws and harboring unfounded fears of prosecution. The media is complicit in the rampant misinformation and fear mongering that contributed to this phenomenon.

Anyone who graduates from medical skill without learning that an ectopic pregnancy is a life threatening emergency deserves to lose their medical license. But just in case those idiot doctors needed clarification, there was this:

59AER24-1 Medical Records Procedures for Treatment of Premature Rupture of Membranes and Other Life Threatening Conditions.

(3) The treatment of an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion and shall not be reported pursuant to Rule 59A-9.034. The treating physician shall document the treatment in the patient's medical record.
(4) The treatment of a trophoblastic tumor is not an abortion and shall not be reported pursuant to Rule 59A-9.034. The treating physician shall document the treatment in the patient's medical record.
Rulemaking Authority 395.1055 FS. Law Implemented 390.0112, 395.3015 FS. History"New 5-1-24.

An anyone tell me what the picture at the top of the page of children playing in tents has to do with US dropping bunker busting bombs on nuclear sites in remote mountainous regions? Just wondering.

UN Inspectors found "particles" enriched to 83.7% in 2023. Keep in mind that Iran gets a heads up for inspections weeks on advance, so those particles may have been inadvertently left behind when they moved the supply.

Also lots of misinformation about the pertinence of the War Powers Act:

Lots of misinformation about the Iran Nuclear Deal. For those who want to understand it, here is a good primer.