People throw around words like socialism just to scare people, but I think people should just look at the truth. Let’s just say, for instance, the people who pay taxes get free (or relatively cheap) health-care funded by the government? What the hell is wrong with that picture? Nothing! Let’s at least not let the pharmaceutical companies have complete control over our lives. A ton of nations already have and love this system.
It’s completely stupid that people would be against something like that, yet want medicare and medicaid and their social security money once they are older. It’s the same ******* thing!
I just find it completely asinine that people are so attached to capitalistic policy when it is in fact the thing that is hurting them and predestining them to a life of hardship!
Your thoughts? Feel free to disagree (although I’m sure many will regardless of my permission).

Has anyone in here switched from Kaiser Medicare Advantage to a holistic, natural medicines doctor? And how did this work out? Thanks.

I’m on my parents’ health insurance right now only because I was living in the house & going to school & that’s going to be ending at the end of this month.
So I’m wondering, what’s a good, affordable health insurance that has a low deductible, a dental plan, covers the CVS MinuteClinics (though I guess I can live without that), they cover 80%, I cover 20%, & HOPEFULLY no more than $60 a month?

EVERYNIGHT, when it’s time to go to bed, i lay on my side and instantly my arm goes numb. So i turn and lay on my other side, and that arm goes numb too. It starts in my shoulder and moves down all the way to my fingers. It sort of aches a slight bit, and gets tingly. Then i’m up all night. I have to lay straight like a stick to get to sleep.
Another thing that happens is my lower back, on the right side, i get sharp pains. Right above my hip bone. And if i try to rub it, it doesnt help. It feels more internal if that makes sense. Like it can’t be rubbed. Its the worst back pain, and nothing i do relives it. Stretching, taking aspirin or something, heating pads… nothing. The pain comes about 2-4 times a month. And the next day it will be gone. If i put weight on my right side (like when i walk) It hurts the most, and i have a horrible limp.
Do i have a pinched nerve in my spine? Can someone tell me what is wrong?
I have been to the Chiropractor but he just cracked my back and it was gone for about a month, then it came back. Both arms and my back. BTW im only 17

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Hi all
I am 15 years old and 3 months ago during the summer holidays I was on the computer and my eyes wouldn’t focus on the screen, so I thought maybe I was using it too long and i shut the screen. Then I felt like I was going to pass out so I jumped up and ran outside and started kicking the football across the garden panicking thinking what is wrong with me. I then ran to the kitchen and made a drink of squash and I drank it and I needed more. I then vomited in the garden whilst I was still panicking. I went to sleep thinking I what if I don’t wake up. I thought I was going to collapse and die that day. I then woke up 2 hours later and had a shower, thinking I would be 100% ok, but I still felt the same. Then I went to bed.
Since then, different symptoms have happened to me, such as sharp shooting pains in the head and different places of my body; tingling, numbness on my hands 24/7 , eye floaters, derealization/depersonalisation, muscle twitching, headaches (occasionally), Indigestion. (I haven’t vomited since that day by the way) Sometimes I cry and say whats wrong with me? Do I have cancer? leukemia? MS? Brain tumor? Lyme disease? Underactive thyroid? Dementia?
I went to the doctor 2 months ago after finally having the confidence to tell my mother that I want a blood test. I went to the doctor, they examined me, by checking my eye lids and stomach and they thought I might have anemia. They ordered a blood test, I had the test 2 days later and got the results. The results showed that it was borderline (I didn’t get the overall evaluation) and the doctor examined my stomach again and issued a liver function test and a abdomen scan. This is when all my symptoms started.
I was scared. My mother was nearly in tears because she didn’t know what was wrong with me and didn’t want to lose me. I had the test, it came back a month later ( I don’t know why ) and the doctor said the results were good, and didn’t know why the first blood test showed like that. He still wanted me to go to the ultrasound for my abdomen for a “routine checkup”
The ultrasound is on tuesday by the way.
I have no family history of cancer, diabetes, or any disease apart from asthma from my father which I have also. Nobody smokes in my family, I don’t drink do drugs etc. So I am wondering what caused all this? Is it really anxiety or a disease?

Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia is the health minister delhi