Saw this at a doctors office in one of the patient rooms.
At first I wasn’t even sure what it was.
Looks like a stomach.
What are those globs?
Oy, they represent malignant tumors (from what I understood reading the fine print).
Really makes it hit home when you see it in front of you on display like that.
So much suffering from illnesses like cancer.
G-d should have mercy.
We really need to find “the cure!”
Imagine what a day that will be. 😉
I tool this picture of beautiful Bartholdi Fountain.
This statue and fountain sits between the U.S. Botanic Gardens, the American Veterans Disabled For Life Memorial, the Rayburn House Office Building, and the Department of Health and Human Services (in the background).
French sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who designed this amazing fountain, is the same artist who made the Statue of Liberty.
This 30 feet tall, 15-ton, cast-iron statue sits marvelously at the base of Capitol Hill.
Next to the American Flag, this stands out as another shining symbol of our democracy, liberty, and national strength.
If as a nation we can once again unify, emulating the 3 women figures who are together holding up the massive fountain bowl over their heads, we too can accomplish great feats for the American people and our nation. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
New beginnings this week at HHS.
This is the view from HQs.
Grateful for the opportunity to serve.
Thank you G-d.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
What great brain at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) came up with the idea to curb access to prosthetics for the disabled?
What is supposedly driving CMS?
It’s a half-wit effort to put a dent in fraud for lower-limb prosthetics –estimated at just $43 million relative to CMS’s annual budget of close to $1 trillion!
Uh, doesn’t CMS have anything better to do then pick on disabled people missing one or more legs?
The profound dumbness of the proposed CMS new rules would limit amputees from possible reimbursement for artificial limbs for example, “if they use assistive devices such as canes or crutches.”
But isn’t that precisely what someone who can’t walk and is missing a limb would use???
Here’s the next doozy…CMS would limit advanced prosthetics “if the device doesn’t enable them to walk with the appearance of a natural gait.”
OMG, this is too much!
People with disabilities who require help need it precisely because they are not “natural” in their mobility functions–that is what we are seeking to help them with.
You’re going to penalize someone from getting artificial limbs because they still can’t walk completely normal with fake limbs like with real ones?
Moreover, if the Veteran’s Administration adopts these rules, this will also affect our wounded warfighters.
G-d (and the Secretary of HHS) needs to put some sense back in the minds of the people who, in this case, instead of helping the disabled are misguidedly working against them. 😉
(Source Photo: Dannielle Blumenthal)
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