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You are entitled to your opinion, as am I-if drugas work for you without dangerous side effects that is great. I am a naturalist-I avoid all drugs, using natural remedies instead-so does most of my family-one of my aunts was also a curandera...

I have extremely bad reactions to most drugs/vaxxes-a simple flu shot will send me into anaphylactic shock in 15 minutes or less. Acupuncture has been used for 1000s of years-I’ll trust that rather than some drug pushed by big pharma till it becomes the cash cow du jour for personal injury attorneys on TV-no one I know says acupuncture doesn’t work, either...

People who are visitors here do not know much about our weather-especially tourists. In the recent past, a lot of the workers at the Summer camps along the Medina and Guadalupe rivers were from out of the area and even from other states-they were just working there for the season.

In Bandera county, there are tourists everywhere just like this time every year, and most don’t know a damn thing about how fast the rivers can get dangerous here-as soon as possible flooding was predicted, the owners of the RV parks and cabins near the river shooed every tourist onto higher ground until further notice-good thing because the RV spaces nearest the river in Bandera were underwater in no time at all. The air B&Bs and RV spaces on this road were/are full-they are near the river, but on high ground-everyone was watching the weather just the same...

I think that in computer models, the flood plain varies with each programmer-we had worse here twice just since 2001-stupid computer models called the the highest flooded area the 100 year flood plain-obviously the computer program did not communicate with nature-or with any residents who remember that in 1987, all that same area and even more was under water-most of us have photos and/or videos of that and every other flood in the area since-it did not take 20 years, never mind 100...

I grew up on a family ranch, but the big farmers and ranchers hired migrant labor when I was a kid-the workers lived on/near the place they worked, they were provided food and health care by their employer and they went home to Mexico at the end of the season. As a comp case manager, I’ve had foreign clients who had an American sponsor-that is where I learned what a big responsibility that is...

Calmate, por favor-They are sponsors-they have to do all that-taxpayers are not responsible for sponsored individuals-they are not allowed any public assistance etc-the sponsor must provide that, document and prove that he/she is meeting the terms of sponsorship-it is not easy or cheap...

Have you ever sponsored an immigrant-or known anyone who has? It is not any kind of amnesty, it is time consuming, requires documentation and it is not cheap at all. Those farmers are being roped into sponsoring any illegals or other foreign workers-that isn’t amnesty-that is making the farmer just like any other sponsor of a foreigner-they are responsible for that person’s upkeep-food, health, and conduct while they are here-not the taxpayers, LEOs, etc.

It is a huge responsibility-and now that farmer has to pay that mojado wages like American worker as well. All that just to have some “cheap” foreign workers-I can see a lot of farmers having major buyers’ remorse the 1st payroll-as they pay the withholding taxes, etc for the 1st time, and it serves them right for being ass****s-be careful what you wish for...

Acupuncture works-it is safe and drug free-I first tried it years ago after a back injury, and have used it many times since-so have my coworkers. It is a matter of choice...

You are right-a drought in this Western part of the Hill Country always ends in one or more floods that result in loss of lives and property-it is almost always in Summer when the whole area is full of tourists...

I’m about 35 miles from Kerr County in Bandera county, which is on the Medina River-so we are not getting a huge flood-just some of the low river and creek crossing roads as of now are under water-but it will get higher by evening as the river gets more water from where it starts in Kerr county-I drove over the creek bridge on this road a couple of hours ago-the water was not over the bridge-my old 4x4 only got wet tires. I was in my 1st flood in the Hill Country at the age of 3 when visiting my grandparents in the Summer-it seems to happen about every 10 years or so...

Most of the floodplain is clearly marked on maps/deeds, and you are not supposed to build there. Some people do it anyway-but insurance companies won’t pay for the loss if you do that knowingly-people who move here from out of the area, not believing it will flood here...

From your keyboard to God’s ears...

LMAO! Whatever he’s doing, I don’t think he will be answering his phone or shopping/dining in public...

That would work if all the howling and pushback from ‘rats could be overcome-but I just saw that the BBB just passed the house-so maybe there is hope. I’m a person over 70 who works for a living and likes it-like everyone I pay for medicare every month, even though I haven’t used it-and if I make really good money in a year, I still pay even more into the system-so yes-let others pay, too...

Reading through some of the comments by others here about what goes on with medicaid scamming now, it appears that there are no more case managers or eligibility workers any more-if they are, they are not required to do much...

There needs to be more responsible monitoring of those getting medicaid-hell, for the right price-I have my credentials and 30 years experience-I’d go back to case management in my state, as contract labor. Hiring experienced case managers is way cheaper than defending laziness with taxpayer money to avoid the blame game...

It worked fine if you were a good case manager and did your job. You don’t just turn clients loose with any financial benefits being paid by someone else, whether the govt or workers comp insurance-at least 40%-50% of them are going to attempt to cheat. You never forget to follow up on a client at least once a month...

I followed up several times per month on clients-including surprise home visits to the ones I thought were potential scammers. One client who claimed a lifting limitation of 25 lbs was running a lawnmower repair shop in his garage-he was lifting a riding mower out of a customer’s truck when I showed up-sorpresa...

The worker safety training I do now is much easier.

It was similar here-a client’s work related injury was covered 100% by workers comp-but the benefits were their income until they were able to return to work. So their share of the cost of medicaid for everything else was based on that. once they returned to work, their income was usually too much for them to qualify for medicaid any more. Anyone rated 100% disabled was considered unemployable and did not have a cost share of medicaid. Same for over 65 and disabled with no medicare benefits.

Because medicaid is taxpayer funded, it used to have a sliding fee scale-it did when I first began working with workers comp clients and insurers. It is now free and pretty much unregulated for any deadbeat who can fly under the radar and not get busted-ridiculous...

I certainly agree that the current healthcare system is a fustercluck-but we have to start somewhere small to get some sane market forces to see an opportunity-and suddenly yanking the mojados and other deadbeats off the govt tits will be an attention getter-and an excuse for some brutal audits from hell. I’ll take a little more confusion for awhile if it pisses the powers that be off enough to just say “bastante” and start digging into the whole mess.

Destroy it bit by bit, that way you don’t miss any moving parts like grift sources-I’d personally rather see it nuked from orbit, but that would cause way too much collateral damage-just my dos centavos...

Not shrimp-just strudel-this is about Austria-not the continent of Australia...

I remember when we had the welfare-to-work program started by Clinton and the repub congress-as a comp case manager, I think it worked very well. That idiot Obama undid it, and now here we are having to do congrssional magic tricks to get it going again...

“From the excerpt above-”and the aircraft required to deploy it”...

Aye, por favor, senor-read the posts-you are sniping at the wrong person/poster with the meds comments-look back at my posts related to your original post-they are #50, #77, and #104-you will see that I did not mention your meds, your mental state or insult you in any way-I said the info you posted as fact was internet hype and nonsense, which it is. Another poster asked about your meds-not me-go back and look-and please stop being rude...