We'll never get there this way

This article in Vanity Fair by Joseph E. Stiglitz says it well: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%.

...paying attention to everyone else’s self-interest—in other words, the common welfare—is in fact a precondition for one’s own ultimate well-being. ... The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

I know that no one in the that top 1% reads my lj, but I wish they would clue the fuck up.

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Meanwhile, as my fingers starve for blood flow, get sores, pain me, and turn gruesome, the insurance company denies me the medication prescribed by my rheumatologist, because, although studies have shown its efficacy in treating Raynauds Phenomenon as a secondary symptom of scleroderma, it hasn't yet been approved by the FDA for that purpose. It's approved for the purpose of helping old men get it up and keep it up, but not that. Further appeals, 180-day waits, and no guarantee of success are all they have to offer. If I could afford to pay full price for the damn stuff, I would, but we've had no raises or bonuses for two years, none are coming, and, as we all know, the cost of living keeps on going up.

please, no suggestions on improving circulation, I'm doing everything I can already

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However, there are good things happening, too, and I've been getting writing time in while dayjobbing, which is always a yay. Deep Terrain (no it's not done yet) stands at 92K and is still working toward final climactic scenes and conclusion. Slowly. But we'll get there. Then there will be much revising.

Other of the good:
got the tax stuff organized and off to tax person
Aristotle, Scaramouch, and Tinker cats ('Totle comforts me when the health stuff is of the overwhelming and I sob like a geyser)
So many good books to read (Deathless up next!)
Justified has been riveting television