The New York Times has a "mock-concern" article that comes down hard on drugging kids in school. What do you do when you see parents drugging their kids stupidly? What do you say to parents whose kids have gone off the rails after a decade or more of psychotropic drug experiments.
“These children are still in the developmental phase, and we still don’t know how these drugs biologically affect the developing brain,” he said. “There’s an obligation for parents, doctors and teachers to respect the authenticity issue, and I’m not sure that’s always happening.”
Yes, we have no idea what the long term effects...wait, yes we do, between LSD and Ritalin, the CIA picked LSD to use because Ritalin was too unstable.
“My kids don’t want to take it, but I told them, ‘These are your grades when you’re taking it, this is when you don’t,’ and they understood,” Ms. Williams said, noting that Medicaidcovers almost every penny of her doctor and prescription costs.
This is the 47% who fear without Obama their kids won't get blottoed.
“It’s scary to think that this is what we’ve come to; how not funding public education to meet the needs of all kids has led to this,” said the superintendent, referring to the use of stimulants in children without classic A.D.H.D. “I don’t know, but it could be happening right here. Maybe not as knowingly, but it could be a consequence of a doctor who sees a kid failing in overcrowded classes with 42 other kids and the frustrated parents asking what they can do. The doctor says, ‘Maybe it’s A.D.H.D., let’s give this a try.’ ”
Kaching!
So what do you say when you here a parent put some kid on Ritalin? You say "You are harming your child. The drug is nastier than any recreational drug out there. The long term effects are horrible. ADD is not a disease, it is kids being kids. Not all kids learn on the exact same time frame. Stop drugging your kids, they will be fine."
"Don't feel bad, just admit it and stop. We all screw up our kids somehow, all the way back to the way Adam and Eve raised Cain. But when you turbo-charge bad impulses with federal dollars, corrupt medicine and money-hungry doctors, the harm is wildly leveraged. Stop now."
Until we make it clear there is no such thing as ADD, or anything that needs medication, we will never have anyone working on solution to the damage done by drugging these kids Ands like the article says, we'll never get proper schools, ones designed for kids like me, kids with the gift of ADD/ADHD.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
“These children are still in the developmental phase, and we still don’t know how these drugs biologically affect the developing brain,” he said. “There’s an obligation for parents, doctors and teachers to respect the authenticity issue, and I’m not sure that’s always happening.”
Yes, we have no idea what the long term effects...wait, yes we do, between LSD and Ritalin, the CIA picked LSD to use because Ritalin was too unstable.
“My kids don’t want to take it, but I told them, ‘These are your grades when you’re taking it, this is when you don’t,’ and they understood,” Ms. Williams said, noting that Medicaidcovers almost every penny of her doctor and prescription costs.
This is the 47% who fear without Obama their kids won't get blottoed.
“It’s scary to think that this is what we’ve come to; how not funding public education to meet the needs of all kids has led to this,” said the superintendent, referring to the use of stimulants in children without classic A.D.H.D. “I don’t know, but it could be happening right here. Maybe not as knowingly, but it could be a consequence of a doctor who sees a kid failing in overcrowded classes with 42 other kids and the frustrated parents asking what they can do. The doctor says, ‘Maybe it’s A.D.H.D., let’s give this a try.’ ”
Kaching!
So what do you say when you here a parent put some kid on Ritalin? You say "You are harming your child. The drug is nastier than any recreational drug out there. The long term effects are horrible. ADD is not a disease, it is kids being kids. Not all kids learn on the exact same time frame. Stop drugging your kids, they will be fine."
"Don't feel bad, just admit it and stop. We all screw up our kids somehow, all the way back to the way Adam and Eve raised Cain. But when you turbo-charge bad impulses with federal dollars, corrupt medicine and money-hungry doctors, the harm is wildly leveraged. Stop now."
Until we make it clear there is no such thing as ADD, or anything that needs medication, we will never have anyone working on solution to the damage done by drugging these kids Ands like the article says, we'll never get proper schools, ones designed for kids like me, kids with the gift of ADD/ADHD.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
3 comments:
John, can you do a post about paying medical bills? Should they be paid? Should you wait until collection and negotiate then?
Thank you
Well, this is curious.
I pay cash for medical intervention, although I am looking at an alternative for major expenses, more on that later.
1. Did you agree to the bill? Then I guess you pay.
2. I've heard on Dave Ramsay more than once people who did NOT agree to a bill. For example, someone got beaned in a baseball game or something and an ambulance showed up. The person was coaxed to take the ride. $5000 bill. Ramsay recommended negotiating it down.
We have a terrible health care system, and no matter who is elected, it will get worse. I am exempt from the system, as I mentioned before, but I will expand on that in coming weeks.
Well, here is what happened. My father had an accident in which he cut half off his thumb in a table saw, and my sister took him to _(Name)_ hospital. After waiting for a few hours in line, the doctor cut a bit more of the finger and bone, then sewed it (no, we couldn't find the other half of the thumb). For this, we got a bill of $13,000 in the mail.
This is the first time we've ever needed the services of a hospital, and were shocked at the cost. We also used to think that people who got screwed by the hospitals were exaggerating.
Now we don't know what to do. Pay the entire amount? I would think $1,000 is reasonable for the medical procedure, which took less than an hour, but $13,000??? And what about the hospital being non-profit? Shouldn't it have more compassionate rates? What a joke.
To answer your question, we haven't yet finalized the method of payment. Today, my father sent his bank statements to the hospital, to see if they would give us financial assistance.
What worries me now most is, what if in the future I'll need to be hospitalized? How will I manage to pay $100k or $200k or even more?
I'll check some of Ramsey's books, although I've heard some negative comments about him and financial "gurus" in general.
I'm looking forward to your next posts on alternatives to the current medical system we have.
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