i love this. reminds me of vinnie myers of maryland. a tattoo artist who mostly now works on breast cancer patients tattooing nipples for people who have had mastectomies

It's a very subtle distinction, as far as I can tell. It's about hating the other who is less deserving. So---they can accept Obamacare/Kentucky Connect, but be furious about others because they feel that the other people accepting some sort of government benefit are LESS DESERVING...

I think.

And like the very nice lady who had her breast cancer treated says: "I didn't know the government was subsidizing my insurance"...

They tend not to know their own state's economic balance sheets and cash flow statements

Not sure how to put this in the context of the video, but...

My gf was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months back and has just finished chemo... now prepping for surgery, radio, and hormone therapy. I know that's a world apart from chronic leukemia - like flu and aids are both viruses - but her attitude was/is:
"Ok, I'm sick, I've got to go through some crap and I'll be better than I am now, even if I'm not fully cured. There's no point raging out about the big fight, or raging inwardly about how unfair it is. I've just got to do some stuff.

"Sick or not, going to work is annoying but necessary. When I need to take care of my child or bf it can be annoying, but necessary. There's no promise that life is easy, but you just do what you can."

I think it's great that people have the strength of character to rage against the disease and not give in to depression, but I will forever be astounded and impressed by my gf's incredibly practical "meh" attitude.

She's Russian. They're a strange people with the weirdest and most practical dark sense of humour, but it's amazing how practical that whole side is.

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My mother told me her doctor told her that stress was probably the most contributing factor in her breast cancer. Whether that's actually true is unknown to me.

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Health insurance is priced to be profitable taking into account the group that is being covered.

For example:

If an individual (group of 1) woman gets coverage, birth control costs will be in her monthly payment.
She however won't have high risk of prostate cancer factoring into her payment.

If an individual (group of 1) man gets insurance coverage, he won't have birth control costs in his monthly payment.
He will however have the higher risk of prostate cancer factoring into his payment.

If an employer gets coverage, the payments will be the average cost of each individual (aside from a 'group discount')
If there is 1 woman and 1 man, they are splitting the cost of 1x birth control and 1x higher risk of prostate cancer.


This is why businesses like to hire young employees, and don't like to hire older employees.
Younger employees keep the monthly insurance payments lower, older employees make monthly insurance payments higher.
That way a bunch of kids get to subsidize the old farts running the place.

Anyways, point being...

Women getting birth control coverage will NOT mean that an individual man with his own plan will have to pay anything for birth control.

It does mean that if birth control coverage is required, then groups containing women will be required to pay for birth control for the women in that group.

In a group, women already subsidize men's prostate cancer, and men already subsidize women's breast cancer, etc.
Birth control would just be another of many items that are mostly male/female specific that people already pay for when in a group.

It's worth keeping in mind that plans commonly offer 'blue pill' coverage for men, so it's not like women are getting ahead in the sexy-time costs.

-scheherazade

Wow, $350,000,000 for breast cancer research? That's great. Did they cure breast cancer? No. They didn't. They won't cure it with $3 billion. They won't cure it with $3 trillion. or $300 quadrillion. Their mistake is in the perception of the problem, and the idea that "global poverty" or "cancer worldwide" is a "problem" which they can "solve". Cancer can be cured for $0. There are hundreds of lifestyle changes that cost nothing (or even save or make more money for the individual) that reduce cancer cells. Cancer isn't the problem, it's the cure, which points the individual to the real problem: lifestyle habits. Same goes for homelessness, hunger, etc. Those things (should) indicate to the individual that there is something wrong with the way they've lived their life up to that point. Or if you prefer a positive outlook, "there is a better way of living their life than the way they've been doing it up to that point." Stop trying to eliminate the things which motivate people to change their habits: Cancer, hunger, poverty, AIDS, etc. These are all symptoms. Symptoms teach us what the real problem is.

How's that for "real social innovation"?

me too. thought for sure i heard double vasectomy and thought.......she had two dicks?! is she a hermaphrodite? or a post op female to male transgender? or a pre op male to female? i had so many damn questions

but double masectomy, thats rough =(
my mother has been battling breast cancer. fortunately they didnt have to perform that surgery tho

That is a message to all other talk shows she might visit: "yes, i survived breast cancer, next subject"

I'm starting to back away from these 'awareness' campaigns. Seems they want more awareness than they want cures. Breast cancer still soldiers on without a hiccup regardless of how many pink ribbons you see.

Why do I feel like I should feel dirty after watching this? It feels more like porn than the Chilean PSA for breast cancer...even though it's utterly safe for work.

I really hope that this frog logo is legitimate...(Unlike those "RED" products that supposedly donate to breast cancer charities, when in reality they are "for profit" organizations and have ~98% administrative costs.)