Ramblings of an EdMan

We need it now.

The Affordable Care Act was a good start, but paying hundreds than paying a high deductible and then health care only paying a certain perfect isn’t good for people.

It is good to see your doctor.

It is good to go to urgent cares or the emergency room when you need it.

It is good to be able to see a therapist and/or s psychiatrist.

It is good to not worry about the cost of an ambulance.

It’s not good for insurance companies to make billions.

It’s not good to have monopolistic pricing and cost fixing in pharmaceuticals.

It’s not good to have so much time and money spent on billing.

It’s not good to have people become bankrupt or destroy their credit.

It’s not good to have discounts if you have health insurance and inflated costs when you don’t.

We can and must do better and it would probably cost us a lot less overall to have universal healthcare.

It’s time.

It’s been time for years and decades.

The policy of ICE, the Border Patrol and the Trump Adminstration to separate children from their families at the border.

If someone has spent weeks traveling from say El Salvador and survived the dangers of the passage, and asks for asylum, we should try to help them.

I just don’t understand it and it hurts me deeply in my soul.

We are so much better than this as a nation.

We have resources and these future dreamers deserve a better life.

I bought flip flops for $5 at Wal-Mart yesterday before getting a pedicure and manicure with my wife Lanna and friends Melissa and Meg.

I realize why I usually don’t wear them. Maybe it’s my big feet but it feels like a toe thong. I even almost tripped tonight.

I did have some sports sandals I liked in the past though. Maybe I will search those out.

My wife Lanna wanted me to do a pedicure and manicure with her today.

I decided to have dark purple nail polish on my fingers and toes.

The pedicure especially felt weird. I am very ticklish.

And drying the nails was super frustrating. I don’t think the setup was designed for a 6’4″ guy.

I might do it again. I do think having colored nails is fun. And it’s super different for me.

Here’s a picture. And happy to do it with my wife and some friends.

It was nice to see a Seymour police officer come in to the Thai Dish and Burger tonight. He was just getting pickup and enjoying the kids being silly.

It makes me wonder if we had a different relationship with police if we saw them in town versus in cruisers. And the fact that police work is often fundraising with tickets and municipal violations.

Definitely one of the friendliest interactions I’ve felt with a police officer for a while.