Return to Dark Tower is about $200.

It would restore some of my faith that my fellow Americans don’t suck as much as I currently think they do. Y’know, before we all get rounded up to die in camps together.

I’m envious. I have a path to potential dual citizenship in the EU through my father, but we don’t speak the language (yet, I’ve been studying for about a year but it’s slow going). It will be a few years before we could get the legal representation and paperwork in order and I’m worried it’ll be too late. I wish you and your family the best!

I’m envious. I have a path to potential dual citizenship in the EU through my father, but we don’t speak the language (yet, I’ve been studying for about a year but it’s slow going). It will be a few years before we could get the legal representation and paperwork in order and I’m worried it’ll be too late. I wish you and your family the best!

I’ve worked for the non-profit insurance subsidiary of a charity hospital system, and part of the problem is that ANY of the competition is for profit. What that means is that the for-profit companies are effectively setting the baseline of coverage. Healthy people (or the HR department at the company) aren’t as concerned with richness of benefit as they are with the lowest premium. Sick people, though? They’ve got a list of doctors and drugs they want to make sure are covered. So if the non-profit benefit is too rich it attracts all the sick people and suddenly the operating costs of the non-profit skyrocket and they go out of business. It’s a weird model that can’t be AS good as the mission wants to be.

In my case the hospital system actually created a generic drug manufacturer themselves to undercut for-profit drug manufacturers. THAT was less daunting than trying to impact the insurance side any more than they already do.

Yep, my dad and I are currently working with a lawyer to get our documents in order for dual citizenship. Once one of us qualifies my son becomes eligible and we can more easily emigrate to an EU country.

One thing I discovered when I was struggling with mystery stomach ailments was that testing for SIBO/IMO is rarely done even though the treatment can be as simple as a course of oral antibiotics. This is because the test involves drinking a vile sugar concoction and then breathing into a bag every 20 minutes for 4 hours. My gastro didn’t do it, I had to ask for the test myself and then travel to a different city to get it done. You’ve said you’ve had a ton of tests (I did too) but bizarrely a SIBO test just isn’t one of the common ones. I ended up having IMO.

This hurts my heart as an elder Millennial who took AP Civics in high school. We are failing the kids so completely…

I got on-the-job training to be a pharmacy tech at a Walgreens while I was in college. My state required that you be licensed at the national and state level, but it was just a test and some continuing education credits.

My current state doesn’t require either, so the techs are definitely skewed younger. Thankfully I finished college and work elsewhere now so I can only guess at their ages but teenagers seems accurate.

Kindness has no place on the road. Follow the f$%^*%$ rules to prevent accidents.