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  What's "Special" About You?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everyone easily can talk about other people---the good and bad....but sometimes we don't focus on ourselves, especially the positives.. we all have strengths.

  what positives do you have, perhaps things you can be proud about?.

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  I am Elsewhere!
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  Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16

  by Yizuman in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011367936_walgreens18m.html.

  effective april 16, walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition the latest development in an ongoing dispute over medicaid reimbursement.. the company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling medicaid prescriptions for current patients.. in a news release, walgreens said its decision to not take new medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to medicaid patents.. walgreens follows bartell drugs, which stopped taking new medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in washington, though it still fills medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.. doug porter, the state's director of medicaid, said medicaid recipients should be able to readily find another pharmacy because "we have many more pharmacy providers in our network than we need" for the state's 1 million medicaid clients.. he said those who can't can contact the state's medical assistance customer service center at 1-800-562-3022 for help in locating one.. along with walgreens and bartell, the ritzville drug company in adams county announced in november that it would stop participating in medicaid.. fred meyer and safeway said their pharmacies would continue to serve existing medicaid patients and to take new ones, though both expressed concern that the reimbursement rate is too low for pharmacies to make a profit.. the amount private insurers and medicaid pay pharmacies for prescriptions isn't the actual cost of those drugs but rather is based on what's called the drug's estimated average wholesale price.

  but that figure is more like the sticker price on a car than its actual wholesale cost.. washington was reimbursing pharmacies 86 percent of a drug's average wholesale price until july, when it began paying them just 84 percent.

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  There is a difference between imposing a Price Cap and stopping Price Gouging.
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  Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16

  by Yizuman in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011367936_walgreens18m.html.

  effective april 16, walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition the latest development in an ongoing dispute over medicaid reimbursement.. the company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling medicaid prescriptions for current patients.. in a news release, walgreens said its decision to not take new medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to medicaid patents.. walgreens follows bartell drugs, which stopped taking new medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in washington, though it still fills medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.. doug porter, the state's director of medicaid, said medicaid recipients should be able to readily find another pharmacy because "we have many more pharmacy providers in our network than we need" for the state's 1 million medicaid clients.. he said those who can't can contact the state's medical assistance customer service center at 1-800-562-3022 for help in locating one.. along with walgreens and bartell, the ritzville drug company in adams county announced in november that it would stop participating in medicaid.. fred meyer and safeway said their pharmacies would continue to serve existing medicaid patients and to take new ones, though both expressed concern that the reimbursement rate is too low for pharmacies to make a profit.. the amount private insurers and medicaid pay pharmacies for prescriptions isn't the actual cost of those drugs but rather is based on what's called the drug's estimated average wholesale price.

  but that figure is more like the sticker price on a car than its actual wholesale cost.. washington was reimbursing pharmacies 86 percent of a drug's average wholesale price until july, when it began paying them just 84 percent.

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  This is a classic example of WHY we need to reform, not only Heathcare, but the private drug and medical device companies who are engaging in price gouging.

  These companies are starting to piss of the very voters they don't want to piss off: Older Americans.

  When you piss them off, bad things happen to you.
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  Study: Marijuana may not impair driving ability

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i agree that more studies are needed to nail this down for sure, but this study is quite impressive.. "the effects of alcohol on driver-controlled behavior in a driving simulator, phase i," dot-hs-806-414.

  marijuana may not impair driving ability at all.

  by steve elliott in news wednesday, mar.

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  I agree that more studies are needed to nail this down for sure, but this study is quite impressive.

  "The Effects of Alcohol on Driver-Controlled Behavior in a Driving Simulator, Phase I," DOT-HS-806-414

  Marijuana May Not Impair Driving Ability At All

  By Steve Elliott in News Wednesday, Mar. 17 2010 @ 10:42AM

  Does marijuana really affect your ability to drive safely? An Orange County, California attorney says there's evidence to show it doesn't -- and testing for the presence of marijuana doesn't measure impairment, anyway.

  Drunk driving laws today typically define "driving under the influence" as covering both alcohol and drugs, with marijuana included as "drugs." In most states, the very presence of marijuana in a driver's blood is either illegal in itself, or is considered proof of impairment.

  "The prevailing view for years has been that cannabis, like alcohol, impairs the coordination, reflexes, perception and judgment necessary for the safe operation of a vehicle," said DUI attorney Lawrence Taylor.

  But none of us has the pot equivalent of those ubiquitous "I was so drunk I totaled my car when I was a teenager" type of stories. And the highway carnage that would accompany marijuana's popularity -- like that which has accompanied alcohol's -- seems never to have happened.

  The blood or urine tests typically used to determine the presence of marijuana metabolites don't measure impairment or intoxication; in fact, such tests can detect marijuana days or even weeks after it was last ingested, long after any "impairment" is in the distant past.

  The federal government's Department of Transportation (DOT) did research with a fully interactive simulator on the effects of alcohol and marijuana, alone and in combination, on driver behavior and performance ("The Effects of Alcohol on Driver-Controlled Behavior in a Driving Simulator, Phase I," DOT-HS-806-414). The study found that alcohol consistently and significantly caused impairment -- but that marijuana only had an occasional effect.

  Further, contrary to drug warrior mythology, there was little evidence of interaction between alcohol and marijuana.

  Speeding tickets and accidents went up with the use of alcohol, but no marijuana influence on speeding and accidents was noted. Additionally, alcohol-impaired drivers who also smoked marijuana showed no additional impairment from the pot.

  The California Department of Justice came to a different conclusion, claiming that marijuana does impair driving skills, particularly at high-dose levels or among inexperienced users ("Marijuana and Alcohol: A Driver Performance Study," California Office of Traffic Safety Project No. 087902).

  But a more recent federal study found that "THC [the active ingredient in marijuana] is not a profoundly impairing drug... It apparently affects controlled information processing in a variety of laboratory tests, but not to the extent which is beyond the individual's ability to control when he is motivated and permitted to do so in driving" ("Marijuana and Actual Performance," DOT-HS-808-078).

  The federal study says that "It appears not possible to conclude anything about a driver's impairment on the basis of his/her plasma concentrations of THC... determined in a single sample."

  "In other words, (1) marijuana may not impair driving ability at all, and (2) the blood 'evidence' usually measures only an inactive substance which may have been present for days," said Taylor.

  "Prosecutors readily acknowledge that a person who smoked a week earlier couldn't possibly be impaired by marijuana, and yet they still prosecute, and often win, these cases," noted a commenter on Taylor's webpage.
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  An Explanation of why TIME TRAVEL does not work

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed.. consequently, the building blocks of existence are actually finite parts.. to create things in "tomorrow" which are new, something has to be dismantled to leave spare parts for tomorrow's new thing.. the old thing deteriorates, (dies/disintegrates) and the parts become available to make the new thing.. time travel requires going to a place where today's parts are available to be rearranged.. some of today's things persist as they are, of course.

  they only travel through time by persisting as they are.

  (mountains, for example.).

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  > So, SPACE is nothing?

  No. In our universe it is impossible for an area of space to contain nothing. Any region of space that is empty will have particles of matter spontaneously emerge to fill in the "nothing".

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy
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  The Odd Question

  by cameo-d in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  have you ever noticed how you are always led to the questions you are allowed to ask?.

  in the wt mags, there are always questions at the end of each article which are nothing more than turning around statements that are in the article.

  very simple answers via regurgitation.

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  In debating this is known as the False Choice.

  In a False Choice situation someone will present several choices and then tell you that these are your only choices and ask you to make a choice.

  The correct response is to make your own choice that is not given to you by your opponent.
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  where is ninja?

  by rockmehardplace in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  was ninja df'd from the board?

  i always like ninja's comments.

  get a good laugh.

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  Maybe he's here right now... only we can't see him due to his Ninja Skills.
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  When religion dies....will it just roll over belly up?

  by cameo-d in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  or will they go down with one last big fight?.

  or will they reinvent themselves and return in disguise as part of the nwo?.

  what do you see as the future when religions reach the tipping point of empty pews and no more $$$?.

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  So long as mental illness exists, religion and "prophets" will exist.

  The strength of religion is inversely proportional to education of the measured population. The more the population is educated, the weaker religion is. I doubt we will ever get to a true "zero" value for religion.
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  Caprica

  by Yizuman in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  anyone watch that show?.

  it starts back to the beginning as to how the cylon race was created, enslaved, rebelled and then eventual war.. http://www.syfy.com/caprica/.

  yiz.

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  I know a few people who LOVE that show.

  I'm trying to like it... but it contains far too much of a "social stress" aspect for my taste. I watch all of these characters who live a life in luxurious houses piss it all away over stupid social decisions specifically design to disrupt the lives of other people... for no reason other than to spite. (A bunch of spoiled brats who have NO idea how good they have it compared to other people.)

  Trying to watch Caprica is like trying to watch a show on the Lifetime channel.

  Sorry Yiz... I don't mean to spoil your thread. I just needed to vent.

  I take my SciFi very seriously.
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  JW members and 401Ks...

  by diana netherton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just would like to open a little debate here on retirement and jws.

  my mother, who is the breadwinner of the family, (dad's quite pathetic) is socking away money like mad for retirement.

  i can't blame her, since i know she'll need it, but she's convinced that the end is so near.

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  > So if the end is so near, why bother?

  My family used to be involved in the construction of Kingdom Halls. While helping build them I always wondered why they were putting 30-year roofs on them.

  The end was "soon". So why the need for a 30-year roof?