Comments by "L. Spencer" (@L.Spencer) on "The New York Times" channel.

  1. He looks like Leonardo DiCaprio, even as a kid. He even talks like him.
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  2. I was thinking about this the other day when I heard the song "Don't you forget about me". When you hear that song in high school you feel it so intensely, you don't want to forget or be forgotten. In middle age, we've all moved on. Sort of. Something about teenage years always stays with us, the intensity of feelings. How many of us remember each other? Probably most of us.
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  3. What amazes me is we have to sign paperwork that we are responsible for all costs, yet there's no way to know those costs ahead of time. Once I was billed for going to the ER and one of the doctors wasn't "in network". So I figured, sure, I'll pay the bill, if my health insurance gives me a list of doctors at the hospital in network, so I can ask each doctor what network they are before they treat me. Ended up appealing the bill to the state, who made the health insurance pay it. Stupid me, should have left it at that, but I asked the state person why it was that the health insurance didn't cover it, and he felt I was disrespecting him and ungrateful for his help. That was a few years ago. Just this week, different health insurance now, my husband got approved for an eye exam, ordered by his doctor because he has diabetes. We were surprised he was approved, since we don't have vision coverage. I called the health insurance, who said they don't have any approval on record. The health insurance called the medical group's referral department, who says it must have been automatically approved, and now they're reviewing it. So if we wouldn't have looked into it, we could have been on the hook for hundreds of dollars for a vision exam, even though it was "approved".
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  4. Private prison companies, that's interesting. I wonder what laws they have to follow regarding handling prisoners.
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  5. It's the threat of kidnapping and being tortured that is scaring them, well, not just the threat but that it's happening. It's so widespread in Mexico and Central America.
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  6.  @KawaiiPinkPunkStar  I'll have to watch it again, but I was thinking about the bouncing and impact on the concrete.
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  7. Yes, I think we have to accept our discomfort with other people's differences. I have felt uncomfortable looking into people's eyes when one eye is "off", is it ok to ask how to look at them? Or is the eye that's looking at you the correct one for everyone? I feel like I'm leaving out the other eye. I would compare this type of situation to how to look at someone in a wheelchair or who is very obese. Do we not look at them so they're not stared at, or do we acknowledge them when normally we probably wouldn't? I know in Mexico as a foreigner I used to get extra attention sometimes, and it could be tiring.
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  8. He will call, the dead will answer.
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  9. I get that she wants fair treatment, and that's fine. But how is running good for a pregnancy? I'm amazed, the body is amazing.
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  10.  @Zaron_Gaming  Interesting. I didn't know that.
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  11.  Dee Rock  Which indigenous Americans are they descended from?
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  12. How's that?
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  13. In Mexico family members stay and take care of the patients. They have nurses but they don't do everything.
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  14. The Bible says with evil things...God doesn't try anybody. It also says the whole world is in the hands of the wicked one. God's kingdom will do away with all badness.
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  15. How many companies are like this? And why?
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  16. Is this every hospital? It'd help to know when it comes time to choose a medical care.
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