If the election were held today

I hope your son does well and that somehow you recover financially.

I just recently had some bad experiences with my local "doctor" here, and she's not even a doctor but rather a physician's assistant. One of the biggest fights I've had with someone in a long time was over only one of those issues and it involved my niacin prescription. She refused to give it to me because she believed it was 'too much'........sent me to a local cardiologist instead. He gave it to me, but when I went back to her for my normal checkup, the excuse to not give it to me was the same....'too much'. My co-pay for her office is $18....the co-pay for the specialist is $160. So a $2.50 prescription wound up costing me an additional $178. Needless to say, I see a real 'new' GP tomorrow....who has no problem getting my prescription called in (made sure ahead of time).....and a complaint to the Dept of Health in Richmond, VA against the PA comes next. because she has also misdiagnosed me twice with medical 'cures' that made me sicker than I was to begin with....all of this since January when I first saw her.

It's a vitamen B. Can't you just pick some up at GNC? Or, take up chewing tobacco.

http://www.sott.net/article/270514-Nicotine-vs-nicotinic-acid-niacin

Far more than the average of 500-1000 mg prescribed, James. I can get wholesale prices via my prescription drug coverage costs and get a six month supply mailed to my house for about $2.50 every six months. It was costing me nearly $200 per month for over the counter prices before.

My psoriasis causes small blisters on my veins and arteries that leak and cause them to collapse....the niacin turns them into small callouses instead. If I stop taking it, the blisters return and I can't have a second bypass because of the chronic psoriasis. I rarely get a skin outbreak anymore but the psoriasis is now internal, including psoriatic arthritis in my spine and neck that is chronic pain but is tolerable most days.

Please, get some Humco sulfur powder (flowers, sublimed) and take along with it, they work together to heal that. Take about 1/3 tsp per day with the Vit B. It really helped me get rid of some skin problems and staph germs (now they call it MRSA) that kept bothering my skin, the two worked like a miracle together. Restored my energy levels too. First 3 days you get a lot of rotten egg gas passing but then it settles down. Don't use that MSM stuff made from burned pine tar or something similar. Tried it myself, tore my gut up, not effective. Just the gentle plain elemental sulfur powder is great. B and sulfur need each other for the best effect of each. It also helps digestive system, stops "leaky gut syndrome" which allows things into the blood stream which can also cause various dermatitis to occur. Bethesda hospital when I was in AF couldn't cure the problem, but using the sulfur I discovered later when I was told about it did. The problems I was having dried up, flaked off and within about 2 months was completely gone, and only had a few times it threatened just a bit to come back and I go on the sulfur and B tabs and get rid of it again. Getting energy restored was a side effect too. I have none of that outbreak anymore, it's been years since then. We found that it works great following a flu to get rid of that nagging cough that otherwise would stay for a while, seems to dry it up.

The beginning of the school year, he looked normal. By the end he looked like a vulture.

Hope the sulfur suggested works.

but somewhere overseas I also picked up some drug resistant Staph Aureus and that caused the blisters to keep turning into boils. Seemed to have 1-3 of them at all times. Took many precautions, even soaked in lysol in tub, disinfected clothing in wash, etc. Nothing seemed to get rid of it. Bethesda when I returned stateside put me on a couple months of antibiotic treatment which only kept it in check somewhat, but the side effect of the antibiotics were wearing me down too. Family members reminded me in past people used sulfur in summer especially, then in molasses, to keep summer boils away. That was in a time when people in south also got pellagra, so seemed a common folk medicine. Not believing it would work but in desperation and after making sure there wasn't any harm in trying I got some sulfur and tried it. Stunned me, I was amazed, after several years of being attacked by those infecting blisters, in a couple weeks they all were dried up and gone. So, I quit taking it. Started coming back on me, so I started back on it and stayed on it for 2 months more. I stopped to see if I'd have a relapse and never did, that was the end of it all. Since then I use it after an illness with the B vitamins to help me build my health back.

I have pain in my legs that comes and goes. There are times I can't get to sleep without ibuprofen and oxy. Most of the time the ibuprofen works but once or twice a month it doesn't. My doctor hasn't a clue what's wrong. He tells me it isn't restless leg but doesn't know what it is. Gives you warm fuzzies. He did find my CLL and when I had a heart attack and has kept track of my diabetes (still just on pills after 20 years).

So much for that. Luckily my pills are cheap but office visits are $50.00.

See why I'm in favor of universal health care? We spend more on health care than any other country and have too many people dying waiting for care or not being able to get any care period.

had to pay something toward that, Diana (a paycheck deduction like Medicare does now) or lower their cash benefits from welfare with that money going directly into a 'locked' account, I could possibly see that in the far future. But when so many are abusing the systems we already have in place (millions have just been kicked out of Obamacare for either being illegal and not eligible in the first place or falsifying the documents that were sent in....and no hope of getting that money back to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars), I don't trust the government to handle it correctly.

Just yesterday or so, BO was again spouting solar energy and what a 'success' story it is, with HC spouting on the campaign trail how she will create millions of jobs with 'green energy'........did you know that one of the 'largest' solar companies that received billions is in the Mojave Desert of CA..........a massive drought situation and solar companies use massive amounts of water? How long before that company also goes bankrupt?

and everyone would be covered. It would be like schools and the police and fire departments and roads department and other services most people take for granted now. I would rather my tax dollars be used for that than more wars in the Middle East.

As for solar. There are a lot of solar companies out there and many companies go bankrupt. I hadn't heard about the water usage and there are wet and dry cooling. The dry cooling is more expensive and is less efficient and would be good in dry climates. The wet one would probably be great in the Midwest where an abundance of water seems to be a problem. A couple in California would be using the water that was previously being used for alfalfa.

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/water-use-by-solar-projects-intensifies/?_r=0

If he's over 18 then why are you legally responsible for his bills?

her health insurance via Obamacare.

Dafydd.

if he could get it all done on Medicaid. That way he gets the treatment but keeps you financially solvent to better help him.