I was raised UU! It's a great sex ed and relationship health program that addresses all aspects of relationships, sex-related or not. I highly recommend checking out your local Unitarian Universalist church/congregation if you have one nearby. They're pretty cool folks.
The article specifically describes the housing options that are single-occupant with doors that lock and accommodation for pets. They are also working on solutions for couples to help keep them together where possible. It's not ideal, and it's not a permanent fix, but they interviewed someone that's staying in the safe, clean, cabins while attending a 2 year college program to get a better paying job.
There is definitely more that the state could be doing as a whole, but they are investing a lot of money into programs and housing with free or heavily subsidized rent to help people get back on their feet. The article specifically mentioned a model where "rent" costs 30% of the resident's income and the rest is covered by a rental assistance program.
My original idea was for the AI companies to shell out for building new nuclear plants, but bringing an old one back online is a step in the right direction. I don't think the current "AI" projects aren't actually worth the resources they consume, but if they're going to exist, their creators should be shelling out for non-fossil fuel options to power them.
There is talk about lifting the restrictions on fuel recycling, so that problem (which isn't as big an issue as folks make it out to be) has the potential to be solved.
This is exactly what I've been advocating for. Nuclear power, especially if they lift the restrictions on fuel recycling, is the cleanest option we have besides solar and wind, and it's a technology that is fully developed and available now. Nuclear power is heavily regulated and is very safe these days, and is not reliant on rare earth metals like many solar panels still are.
Well, JD Vance thinks grandma and grandpa should be the solution to childcare, but that only works if they aren't actively dying and need to be cared for themselves. I'm pretty sure the GOP also thinks that daughters-in-law and granddaughters should be doing the elder care for free as well, so I don't really know how they expect that all to work.
(It's not supposed to work. People are supposed to make rich people richer and then die, according to the GOP)
I'm a third year medical student in the Midwest. I'm aiming to do my residency in Minnesota, either Emergency Med or Family Med because apparently I like doing social work and hate my sanity or something.
I just finished my second family medicine rotation and it's just so ass-backwards because if we could give them the medication they need, they won't end up in hospitals/ICUs/long term care facilities/etc. The new medications are incredible drugs and can vastly improve the quality and quantity of life for patients with diseases like diabetes, heart failure, renal failure, and more...if the patients can afford them, which they frequently cannot.
It's appalling how much we have to alter treatment plans based on Medicare rates. If someone doesn't have a supplement plan, they probably won't be able to afford the new medications that are MASSIVE improvements on the old ones. It's so frustrating to have to try to cobble together a treatment regimen for congestive heart failure or type 2 diabetes without being able to use the new medications because Medicare doesn't cover enough of the cost for the patient to be able to afford it. It also affects how long a patient can be hospitalized and figuring out the requirements to make sure they qualify for rehab after hospitalization is aneurysm-inducing.
I just get stuck on the interview I saw with her where she said she only accepted the payment so that there would be a paper trail that would make it harder to have her killed. She was legitimately afraid that she was going to get murdered on his orders if she didn't have some kind of collateral or receipts.
It takes years for a donor's remaining liver to grow back, and the recipient is unlikely to grow out more of the donated liver depending on comorbidities and severity of illness.
I got my husband an engagement watch. It's an analog watch with a 24 hour dial, and it was very hard to find. He was delighted (especially since the ring he was getting made for me was delayed by about 4 months because of Covid)
I think the other part of it is that something like a full colonoscopy is a lot safer if the patient isn't moving at all given that one of the biggest and most serious risks is poking a hole through the colon with the camera.
I was raised UU! It's a great sex ed and relationship health program that addresses all aspects of relationships, sex-related or not. I highly recommend checking out your local Unitarian Universalist church/congregation if you have one nearby. They're pretty cool folks.