I currently have Coventry health insurance but am planning on switching over to blue cross blue shield in the spring but i need to know if either of those providers cover breast reconstruction surgery for tuberous breasts. It is categorized as a congenial breast deformity and i know that insurance companies do cover it I’m just not sure which ones. If anyone on here knows anything about this topic please please help me out…if I can’t find coverage I’m going to need to save around six thousand dollars and that will take awhile, which will be very hard to deal with considering how much distress this problem brings me in every day life…so please if you have serious answers that can help me let me know.

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When my Dad died, I came into a few hundred thousand dollars. I decided to become a home owner. I bought (free and clear, no mortage) a house. Up Side: No rent, no mortgage. Down side: I bought a 780 square foot (tiny) little ghetto house in a bad part of Los Angeles (Echo Park). Got burglar bars and doors, a fence, motion activated floodlights, an alarm, and a big dog from the pound. Right now, the California Economy is dead, so you can buy guns from people who just lost their jobs for practically nothing. I bought a Spanish Star Model B in .38 Super from a guy, along with several boxes of +P 130 grain Hollow Point bullets. I keep that, and a spare loaded clip, between my mattress and the springs during the day, and under my pillow at night. I keep it without a bullet in the chamber, so I won’t have an accident.

My best friend slept over (he lives on the other side of the San Gabriel Mountains in Palmdale, and it’s a long drive). We went to a movie, and he said he was too tired to drive home. So he sees my home defense set up, and starts to criticize. He says if I start shooting, I am going to be sending bullets right throught the walls of my tiny little house, and will be killing my neighbors. He says I am really irresponsible, and that I should get out my shotgun instead. I inherited a Savage BSE double barrel shotgun in 20 guage. My friend says I should load that with birdshot. He says birdshot will kill anyone inside a house, but it won’t penetrate walls.

I don’t know whether to take him seriously or not. He has his good points, and will give me the shirt off his back, but he also has a need to constantly one up me. I like the big (to me) .38 Super for several reasons. It feels good in my hand. I like that I can instantly reload it. To a small guy like me (five foot four, 119 pounds) it seems pretty powerful. And I can hold my big steel cop flashlight my cop brother bought me for a gift in my other hand. And I can hide it behind my back or down by my side if I am investigating my yard at night. I will look like a horse’s patoot running around my tiny yard with a double barreled shotgun. They will call the men in the white coats. Also, my house was wood frame, which some genius added a ton of stucco to. I guess for insulation. I assume a hollow pont bullet would rip itself to pieces going thought the lath and plaster (really old house) wood frame, and then two inches of stucco. Also, I am not very big or strong. If I went after someone in the house with a shotgun, I am afraid they could take it off me. I don’t have a lot of upper body strength. I keep this big hunting knife with leather washer grip I inherited in my nightstand. I had it shapened razor sharp at this cutlery place in the mall. If I actually thought someone were in my house, I would put the gun in my right hand, and my knife in the left. I am scared a big or strong man could wrestle the gun out of my hand. That way, if we were wrestling over the gun, I would simply stab the guy with a big razor sharp six inch blade. I can’t do that with a big old shotgun with a long, clumsy barrel. I think my home defense set up is pretty good. Actually I DON’T intend on shooting someone. I may be very naive, but I think if I shoot my gun off into the floor, 99% of all intruders will exit stage left, with running feets out the door. I mean a .38 Super with +P is LOUD, at least in the indoor shooting range. So I think the odds of actually having to fire it at hip level are pretty small.
Soulflow

You have never been a victim of violent crime, I guess. I have. I was gay bashed and put into the hospital, after minding my own business and walking out of a club in West Hollywood. Never again. I will never be a victim. If you want to be a victim, go right ahead.
Soulflow

You have been a victim of violent crime multiple times, and you don’t want to be able to defend yourself? I can only say that is not how my mind works.

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Yesterday I wrote a letter to the State Rep concerning Medicaid Coverage. If there is one thing I am truly passionate and driven about it is Medical Alert/Service Dogs for the Disabled.
My Letter contained information about what Medicaid covered and how much the disabled make a month.
I get State assistance to help with my medical bills. As I was sitting in the office waiting for my the Rep that handles may case, a 15-16 year old girl walks in and looks like she is 8 months along; she was picking up a replacement card for her State medical coverage.
Just the Hospital visit and birth of the child alone is 10,000+, not to mention all the assistance she will receive after and the medical care she received before.
A Medical Alert/Service Dog is a one time fee of 5,000 (where I am located)
The State will cover 10+ Thousand dollars for the birth of a child and deprive a disabled person of true medical help.

Medicare will cover a variety of things even Motorized Wheelchairs for those who cant walk or have trouble doing so, which is a complete blessing for them.
However Medicare will not cover any part of the cost for a Medical Alert or Service Dog even if required by Doctor’s orders.
I have a College Degree and had a great Career until my heart condition got worse. If I had a Medical Alert dog, I would return to my Career and no longer need any type of State or Federal funding or assistance.
My belief that if these insurance would cover even partial cost of a Medical Alert/Service dog more disabled people will we return to work or be a volunteer helping others. Thus less people would be needing State and/or Federal funding.

My condition makes my heart temporarily stop, causing black out spells. This Last Winter I fell in to a snow bank and laid there for at least a half hour. It would have ended differently if I had a Medical Alert dog.
Does any one agree with me that Medical Alert/Service Dogs should fully or partially be covered by Medicaid and/or Medicare?

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Keep in mind that most homes have .00 locks on the doors. Yet the average home burglary nets the thief almost 2 thousand dollars (or more) worth of YOUR stuff.

Do you have good locks on your place of residence?
or do you rely on "burglar alarms" for protection?

Thanks for your feedback : )

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My step father is very sick and unable to care for himself, he can’t walk at all and has lost his ability to speak. The family has been suggesting my mother move him to a facility that can care for him since she leaves him alone for several hours per day, but Mom refuses to do this since she depends on his social security income for living expenses. She currently works part time but refuses to consider a full time job even though she’s only 58 and in good health.

I know this makes me sound like a horrible daughter but she has been lying to me for months to get money. She calls me, crying, saying she can’t afford groceries so I send her a couple hundred dollars. Inevitably I’ll hear a few days later about her recent purchases, clothes, home decor, weekend trips with "the girls" etc.

Now she is asking for a couple thousand dollars to cover legal fees so she can become the legal guardian of her husband. I suspect she has discovered a way that becoming his guardian will get her more money. Before I give her anything I want to know what she’s up to.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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My step father is very sick and unable to care for himself, he can’t walk at all and has lost his ability to speak. The family has been suggesting my mother move him to a facility that can care for him since she leaves him alone for several hours per day, but Mom refuses to do this since she depends on his social security income for living expenses. She currently works part time but refuses to consider a full time job even though she’s only 58 and in good health.

I know this makes me sound like a horrible daughter but she has been lying to me for months to get money. She calls me, crying, saying she can’t afford groceries so I send her a couple hundred dollars. Inevitably I’ll hear a few days later about her recent purchases, clothes, home decor, weekend trips with "the girls" etc.

Now she is asking for a couple thousand dollars to cover legal fees so she can become the legal guardian of her husband. I suspect she has discovered a way that becoming his guardian will get her more money. Before I give her anything I want to know what she’s up to.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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