Why Mental Health Care is So Hard to Get in the US, From A Different Point of View | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Thanks to ProPublica for an outstanding article, reprinted by NPR, explaining something that I have been trying to tell folks back in the States for a very long time: it is really difficult to get proper and necessary non-acute emergency access to mental health care in the US.

Mental health professionals, it seems, are also often treated in similar ways to teachers, paid only for their hours actually in the room with the patient, or in the classroom teaching classes, but not paid for the even more important, as I was told at my last teaching position, work of doing the administrative paperwork required by to get paid:

“Insurers pay only for time in session, not the documenting of notes or chasing down of payments.

The reimbursement rates for mental health clinicians are also lower than what insurers pay medical providers for similar services. … Despite federal rules requiring equitable access to care, there are no requirements to even out provider reimbursements.”

This is an insane system, unless you actually want people committing suicide.

We can really Do Better. Please write to your lawmakers after you read the article for details

Source: Why Mental Health Care is So Hard to Get in the US, From A Different Point of View | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Como os Drones Estão Redefinindo a Guerra Moderna : Linkezine

Como os Drones Estão Redefinindo a Guerra Moderna

A guerra na Ucrânia trouxe à tona uma nova geração de drones que está transformando profundamente o cenário dos conflitos armados. Drones de ataque, como os chamados OWAs (one-way attack), são simples, baratos e altamente precisos, tornando-se uma ameaça crescente tanto para forças armadas quanto para infraestruturas críticas. Estes dispositivos, que funcionam como uma mistura de drone e míssil, estão mudando a maneira como as batalhas são travadas, ampliando o alcance e a letalidade dos exércitos e grupos armados ao redor do mundo…

Source: Como os Drones Estão Redefinindo a Guerra Moderna : Linkezine

अव्यक्त सत्य / Unspoken Truth – Kaushal Kishore

 

हम लाख बोल लें झूठ दुनिया से,

लेकिन दिल जानता है सच क्या है…

अंतरात्मा की आवाज भले नकार दें,

लेकिन वह कचोटती रहती है अंदर से…

हर इनकार के साथ होते जाते हैं बौने,

और होते जाते हैं हम खोखले अंदर से…

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

We may deceive the world with lies,

But truth shines thru heart’s clear eyes…

We can silence our conscience’s voice,

Yet it whispers, without our choice…

With every denial, deeper we fall,

Leaving us hollow within, and small…

.

–Kaushal Kishore 

image: pinterest 

Source: अव्यक्त सत्य / Unspoken Truth – Kaushal Kishore

♫ Abraham, Martin and John ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

The original version was recorded by Dion Francis DiMucci, better known simply as Dion.  Although the song has been recorded by many of my favourites such as Ray Charles, Kenny Rogers, the Brothers Four, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Whitney Houston, and Smokey Robinson, to name a few, the Dion version remains my favourite.  And so, I bring you, in honour of four truly great men whose lives, because they were great, because they worked tirelessly for equality for all, were cut far too short …

Abraham, Martin And John
Dion DiMucci

Source: ♫ Abraham, Martin and John ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

Y una mañana, cuando despierte de mis sueños – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Y una mañana, al despertar de mis sueños, tal vez descubra la belleza sublime del paisaje que cotidianamente diseño por medio de mis sentimientos, ideales, motivos, palabras, anhelos, delirios, acciones y pensamientos. Creo, y lo sé, que cada hombre y mujer, un día, a cierta hora, miran a su alrededor, a los lados, enfrente y atrás, y perciben el escenario que han creado desde su esencia y su arcilla. Cada uno, por cierto, diseñamos y construimos nuestro destino.

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Source: Y una mañana, cuando despierte de mis sueños – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Italy outlaws overseas surrogacy for residents – UPI.com (Me: Italy takes wrong and political side of parenting…)

opponents railed at the decision, saying that it would be applied only to the poor and cut off a chance for couples who want to have children and families.

“[The law is] unreasonable and completely out of line with the rulings of the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights,” said Anna Rossomando, of Italy’s center-left Democratic Party.”

Opponents also worry it will particularly impact the LGBTQ community, as Miloni has previously spoken out about LGBT couples seeking to use the process to conceive a child.

Source: Italy outlaws overseas surrogacy for residents – UPI.com

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