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Seagulls are crazy. I was eating a sandwich by the beach on a boardwalk the other day and I noticed a seagull was sitting a couple feet behind me on a post. Then I got dusted by him, which I thought was strange.

A couple min later he made another pass and snagged my turkey sandwich out of my hand.

They probably thought someone was fucking with them.

I went to high school with her. I'm gonna post this on Facebook.

I have a question. I live with a person with an "invisible" disability. Sometimes they are able to do things they normally say they can't, like walk without a cane for a period of time, carry a bag, etc. But what normally happens is that they will pay for it later with pain levels.

How often do you use things like that for the benefit of your clients? Do you use little brief moments like that to provide evidence someone is not disabled or as hurt as they claim?

For the preexisting condition alone, yes. I'd be willing to pay for a high deductible plan on top of that, so that would be another 1000-2000 per year, though I'm just getting denied whenever I apply for individual insurance because, as I mentioned above, I'm self employed. This is a solution that works for me personally.

The problem is that solution does not do anything for the people who get screwed the hardest by our current system...it only works if the individual can, like me, afford to pay cash for their preexisting condition.

If my ongoing care was more expensive or my hypothetical cancer came back after remission the above solution wouldn't do anything. And the people in those circumstances are the most vulnerable, and Obamacare takes the burden off them and distributes it among the rest of society. I think it's fundamentally fair.