This is so higschool! My favourite back then was the green one! Nomnomnom.
When I was a kid, my dad used to take me to school in the morning. We’d see birds like these and he’ll tell me that we better go fast because I’m late already. Of course I’ll ask, “Pano mo alam?”. He’ll tell me that can’t you see? The birds are lined up already and they’re having their flag ceremony! HAHAHAHA.
Apparently, the birds are lined up and they are having their FRC already. HAHAHA I <3 my dad!
Kurt Cobain’s suicide letter, addressed to his childhood imaginary friend Boddah, written while he was high on herion.
To Boddah
Speaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton who obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee. This note should be pretty easy to understand.
All the warnings from the punk rock 101 courses over the years, since my first introduction to the, shall we say, ethics involved with independence and the embracement of your community has proven to be very true. I haven’t felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things.
For example when we’re back stage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins., it doesn’t affect me the way in which it did for Freddie Mercury, who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd which is something I totally admire and envy. The fact is, I can’t fool you, any one of you. It simply isn’t fair to you or me. The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if I’m having 100% fun. Sometimes I feel as if I should have a punch-in time clock before I walk out on stage. I’ve tried everything within my power to appreciate it (and I do, God, believe me I do, but it’s not enough). I appreciate the fact that I and we have affected and entertained a lot of people. It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they’re gone.
I’m too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.
On our last 3 tours, I’ve had a much better appreciation for all the people I’ve known personally, and as fans of our music, but I still can’t get over the frustration, the guilt and empathy I have for everyone. There’s good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. The sad little, sensitive, unappreciative, Pisces, Jesus man. Why don’t you just enjoy it? I don’t know!
I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can’t stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I’ve become.
I have it good, very good, and I’m grateful, but since the age of seven, I’ve become hateful towards all humans in general. Only because it seems so easy for people to get along that have empathy. Only because I love and feel sorry for people too much I guess.
Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. I’m too much of an erratic, moody baby! I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
Peace, love, empathy. Kurt Cobain
Frances and Courtney, I’ll be at your alter.
Please keep going Courtney, for Frances.
For her life, which will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU!
PhilHealth, being the country’s national health insurance provider, has evolved through the years since its inception in 1995. By achieving 76% coverage in 2008, it has provided the Filipino people with considerably better access to health care through its innovative benefit packages and subsidies. Be that as it may, it still has not reached the law-mandated state of universal health insurance coverage targeted at 2010.
In the RP, the poor subsidizes the rich...
Health insurance is anchored on the concept of social solidarity. Ideally, those who can afford to pay should contribute more to help those who can’t. This is the case in most European countries where their citizens pay a fixed amount of their income as their contribution to their national health insurance. However, the Philippines has adopted a different contribution system:
PhilHealth Premium Contribution Schedule
Many individually paying members (i.e. informal economy workers who do not have employers to cover half of their monthly base) are unable to sustain their contributions, putting their access to PhilHealth benefits at risk. Conversely, a salaried company executive who earns, say, P70,000.00 a month only contributes P375.00 (0.53%) from their monthly income. The latter applies to Filipinos earning P100,000.00, P1M, and so on.. because they all fit salary bracket 27.
Where do the pooled funds go then?
The Top Ten Hospitals in terms of PhilHealth Claims (2006)
- The Medical City
- St. Luke’s Medical Center
- Chong Hua Hospital
- Chinese General Hospital
- Dr. Pablo O. Torre, Sr. Memorial Hospital
- Makati Medical Center
- Davao Medical Center
- Davao Doctors’ Hospital
- Cebu Doctors’ Hospital
- Perpetual Succour Hospital
With Davao Medical Center being the only government hospital on the list, it is evident where PhilHealth’s funds are concentrated. Instead of the rich paying for the poor, the opposite happens. PhilHealth’s pooled funds are used to cover the hospital reimbursements of those who avail of services from the most expensive tertiary institutions in the country.
Whenever I think of health insurance, that Filipino image of Bayanihan always enters my mind. It just makes complete sense to do your part to help take care of people who need health care the most. Otherwise, we will only be breeding a country of unhealthy people where the poor end up with substandard care and higher medical expenses.
sources: http://www.flickr.com/photos/narrowvalley/326711229/; http://myjobstreet.jobstreet.com/premium/basicSalaryReport.asp?param=executive|000|ph||ph; http://www.philhealth.gov.ph/members/employed/contri_tbl.htm; http://hain-news.blogspot.com/2009/05/philhealth-update.html; Homenet Philippines (Policy Brief on health Insurance); PhilHealth Annual Report (2008).
20 REASONS WHY CHOCOLATE IS BETTER THAN SEX
LOL at number 2.
