Sunday, July 28, 2013
The $ factor.
I thought I had posted it here, but I only sent it out as a tweet:
"40% of my patients problems could be greatly improved, if not completely cured, by $35,000."
(I tweet @therapistmumble, but it's hardly worth following because I tweet about once a month).
On the front page of today's NYT "Review: section is an article by Moises Velasquez Manoff (that's a name for the new world) which gives a lot of research support to the concept that the poor suffer in many ways -- health, longevity, depression, etc, much more than people who are financially comfortable.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/status-and-stress/?_r=0
Now, to most of you this probably comes as a "Duh!"
But, unfortunately, too many people in this gold ol' U.S. of A. seem not only aware of that fact, but happy about it. We are getting back to where we were in 1964, of blaming the victim, and using the poor to make the rich feel better.
This is not a prescription for the long-term success of any society.
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A little money can make you VERY happy. Our younger daughter is a serious packrat; She finally said, "Enough." She was overwhelmed with stacks and stacks and stacks of paper going back over 25 years, Sunday I went over and spent 4 hours helping her to a preliminary sort. She found uncashed insurance checks worth over $500.00, going back to 2 years ago, when she had surgery. She remembered being "too tired" to deal with the day-to-day then, and just let them pile up. We were pretty sure the ins. companies would no longer honor them, but, bless them, they will and she will get every dollar coming to her.
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