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“Define your terms… or we shall never understand one another.” – Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique
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npr:
In modern medicine, the mind and body often stay on two separate tracks in terms of treatment and health insurance reimbursement. But it’s hard to maintain physical health while suffering from a psychological disorder.
So some Medicaid programs, which provide health coverage for people who have low incomes, have tried to blend the coordination of care for the physical and mental health of patients, with the hope that it might save the state and federal governments money while also improving the health of patients like John Poynter of Clarksville, Tenn.
Poynter has more health problems than he can even recall. “Memory is one of them,” he says, with a laugh that punctuates the end of nearly every sentence.
He is currently recovering from his second hip replacement, related to his dwarfism. Poynter is able to get around with the help of a walker — it’s covered in keychains from everywhere he’s been. He also has diabetes and is in a constant struggle to moderate his blood sugar.
But most of his challenges, he says, revolve around one destructive behavior — alcoholism.
Read the full story here
(Source: NPR)
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On this day 140 years ago, 8 August 1879, Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary of Nahua-Spanish descent and leading figure of the peasant army which helped overthrow Porfirio Diaz in the 1910 Mexican revolution, was born.
To celebrate, we are reproducing this photograph as a poster in our online store to help fund our work: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/working-class-heroes/emiliano-zapata https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1183903835128098/?type=3
When will banksy
When will anonymous
always reblog, this is fucking activism folks
if you don’t have access to poorly-secured and un-backed-up debt records, you can help do this via legitimate means by donating to rollingjubilee.org - they buy debt (the way debt collectors do, for steeply discounted prices - like $20 to buy $500 in outstanding debt owed by someone) and just… forgive it, so it doesn’t need to be paid by the person on whom it’s a burden.
Welp, I know what we’re doing with our blog profits next year!
Imagine if a millionaire threw some money at this. Anyone who has ever had a celeb interaction on Twitter please tweet this at them and see if we can get them to think it’s fun
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