Blame "The Greatest Generation" for the divide... Marketing and Media, Sociologists and Demographics coined "Baby Boomers" after the baby boom after WWII. It became a mainstream term in the '60s and '70s. After, each subsequent age group got their own label for Madison Avenue to dissect, market and ploy with toys.
It's extremely easy to stereotype groups - positively and negatively.
Drug prices - like ALL of healthcare - are so convoluted no one can follow the trail. Drug companies can get tax breaks - like they need more - for offering free medications to low income/special needs groups.
I love how Big Pharma wants to blame the rest of the world for our high drug prices. We pay more because they won't pay more. Makes sense to me - NOT!
And, then there's the act of voting against ones own self-interests...
With no proof or facts to support me, I think it boils down to being marginalized in the first place - being a part of the stereotype.
Log Cabin Republicans voting against Drag Queens because they think it will make mainstream bigots accept them. Hispanics voting against "undocumented" people to make themselves appear law and order mainstream American. It's chasing a vision of being less oppressed that will never come to fruition.
I know someone who used to be a member of the Log Cabin Republicans, and years ago (the Clinton administration) I asked him WHY!?!?!? He said that since gays had no rights, he was aligned with the "small government" of the right wing. As of today, he is married, still concerned with taxes, and a member of the Democratic party.
I appreciate your explanation of the generations -- I hadn't known that, but it rings true to me.
As for drug prices -- it used to be exciting to stand in line at the CVS ready to spin the "magic wheel" to find out how much my meds would cost. On a good day, I could get everyone behind me to ask to spin the magic wheel -- no one ever knew!
There are so many answers for each of these questions going back to Socrates or likely before, yet the many questions and even many more answers persist. Apparently a fault in the human condition that is beyond cure by humans. Perhaps Armageddon is more than a Bible warning.
Good morning!! Insurance and Medical Care. My Primary Care Doc has no idea about what goes on between the Medicare funded 2 visits/year. I am forced by their tight schedules to patronize Urgent Care Centers. Fortunately I have a very good one within 10 miles. So no one “manages” my care now. Well I do and fortunately I’m pretty savvy about Medical Care. That’s a real relationship lost which I do grieve. And I hope that our Latino brethren are smarter than many and vote in their interests in the mid term elections!! I’m personally glad I have a veg garden to keep my household food budget down! And the divisions in our population IMHO are an outcome of Marketing. We sell products to special interests and they require identification by vendors.. My very politically minded daughter actually seriously accused me of stealing her future because I as a Boomer have had all of the advantages in my lifetime! And I won’t go into her spending habits that keep her scraping for money! However I do think that the relationship between our healthcare industry and insurance needs serious overhaul.
On the issue of urgent care. In certain ways, that's what we're coming to. I have a great internist, but she is so busy that when I called a couple weeks ago needing steroids for angioedema, he nurse said they could probably get me in the next day or the day after. I went over to the urgent care and in about an hour had been seen, and was back home with my meds. With my former internist (who sadly decided at the age of 70 that he'd like to spend his time playing golf, and retired) - he KNEW me (treated me for 25 years) and they would have just taken my word for it and called in the scrip. And yes, we are now ALL in charge of managing our care.
As for the "OK Boomer" thing -- I graduated college into stagflation -- it was hard to find a job, and interest rates were through the roof. My late husband and I each worked THREE jobs to save the money for a downpayment on a house, for several years! And then we each worked two jobs to make sure we made the payments. I'm NOT saying it's not tough today, it is -- but we worked!
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Blame "The Greatest Generation" for the divide... Marketing and Media, Sociologists and Demographics coined "Baby Boomers" after the baby boom after WWII. It became a mainstream term in the '60s and '70s. After, each subsequent age group got their own label for Madison Avenue to dissect, market and ploy with toys.
It's extremely easy to stereotype groups - positively and negatively.
Drug prices - like ALL of healthcare - are so convoluted no one can follow the trail. Drug companies can get tax breaks - like they need more - for offering free medications to low income/special needs groups.
I love how Big Pharma wants to blame the rest of the world for our high drug prices. We pay more because they won't pay more. Makes sense to me - NOT!
And, then there's the act of voting against ones own self-interests...
With no proof or facts to support me, I think it boils down to being marginalized in the first place - being a part of the stereotype.
Log Cabin Republicans voting against Drag Queens because they think it will make mainstream bigots accept them. Hispanics voting against "undocumented" people to make themselves appear law and order mainstream American. It's chasing a vision of being less oppressed that will never come to fruition.
And it all circles back up to labels...
I know someone who used to be a member of the Log Cabin Republicans, and years ago (the Clinton administration) I asked him WHY!?!?!? He said that since gays had no rights, he was aligned with the "small government" of the right wing. As of today, he is married, still concerned with taxes, and a member of the Democratic party.
I appreciate your explanation of the generations -- I hadn't known that, but it rings true to me.
As for drug prices -- it used to be exciting to stand in line at the CVS ready to spin the "magic wheel" to find out how much my meds would cost. On a good day, I could get everyone behind me to ask to spin the magic wheel -- no one ever knew!
There are so many answers for each of these questions going back to Socrates or likely before, yet the many questions and even many more answers persist. Apparently a fault in the human condition that is beyond cure by humans. Perhaps Armageddon is more than a Bible warning.
We might well be getting close.
Good morning!! Insurance and Medical Care. My Primary Care Doc has no idea about what goes on between the Medicare funded 2 visits/year. I am forced by their tight schedules to patronize Urgent Care Centers. Fortunately I have a very good one within 10 miles. So no one “manages” my care now. Well I do and fortunately I’m pretty savvy about Medical Care. That’s a real relationship lost which I do grieve. And I hope that our Latino brethren are smarter than many and vote in their interests in the mid term elections!! I’m personally glad I have a veg garden to keep my household food budget down! And the divisions in our population IMHO are an outcome of Marketing. We sell products to special interests and they require identification by vendors.. My very politically minded daughter actually seriously accused me of stealing her future because I as a Boomer have had all of the advantages in my lifetime! And I won’t go into her spending habits that keep her scraping for money! However I do think that the relationship between our healthcare industry and insurance needs serious overhaul.
On the issue of urgent care. In certain ways, that's what we're coming to. I have a great internist, but she is so busy that when I called a couple weeks ago needing steroids for angioedema, he nurse said they could probably get me in the next day or the day after. I went over to the urgent care and in about an hour had been seen, and was back home with my meds. With my former internist (who sadly decided at the age of 70 that he'd like to spend his time playing golf, and retired) - he KNEW me (treated me for 25 years) and they would have just taken my word for it and called in the scrip. And yes, we are now ALL in charge of managing our care.
As for the "OK Boomer" thing -- I graduated college into stagflation -- it was hard to find a job, and interest rates were through the roof. My late husband and I each worked THREE jobs to save the money for a downpayment on a house, for several years! And then we each worked two jobs to make sure we made the payments. I'm NOT saying it's not tough today, it is -- but we worked!