Is it a sign that I’m losing my mind if I’m cracking up to my exam review CDs? The reviewer is singing cheesy 90′s songs. I can’t help myself! 
Archive for May 4th, 2008
Giggle
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May
Small company or large healthcare?
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May
Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs
By REED ABELSON and MILT FREUDENHEIM
Published: May 4, 2008
For millions of people with employer health insurance, premiums and co-payments have increased quickly while coverage has become less extensive.
I’ve talked about this before and discussed, debated, screamed and shouted about the need for universal healthcare (or at least some other way to share the burden). People shouldn’t have to choose between working for a small company/nonprofit or going to a larger company that has better benefits. These days the larger corporate giants are the only ones who can afford to spread the risk among their employees so if you have any kinds of medical risks, you MUST go there or suffer the consequences. Even then, you are paying more than ever before. And God forbid you actually get sick and have to take time off…
And the line in this story about not taking the kid to the doctor because his fever is only 102? I think a lot of parents with busy jobs are really feeling that pressure. Especially with doctors’ hours only between 8:30 – 5. I’m just thankful for those new clinics inside the CVS! And we even changed pediatricians so that we had the option of a Saturday morning clinic until noon for urgent appointments. That’s not to say that Pumpkinhead’s health isn’t my #1 concern. If he’s sick, I take him. But if it’s just yet another ear infection, why can’t the doctor have one late night that they stay open until 8? How hard would that be? Maybe they then open at 11 the next day or something to make up the time? Not everyone stays home and employers are making it harder and harder to get away for these things.
Weekly MILS Roundup #44
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May
The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week’s MILS Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish.
This one’s a quickie, people. I am DROWNING in finals prep.
So is 2L Wannabe
Butterflyfish is not only drowning, but being pulled the wrong way out to sea in a riptide of practice exam confusion
Dakota has a post about her classmates drowning… in booze
ProtoAttorney is recovering from two types of wet events – the alcohol from her post-graduation (masters) celebrations and little Cora’s baptism (and let’s not forget the flood waters!)
LagLiv recounts three years of law school proms, starting with a vomit-soaking and ending with the anticipation of this year’s prom and a girl’s night complete with with a little less wine and some formula for Landon
New Duck has a thoughtful idea for after exams when we’re in a clean-and-pitch mode
Law School Hot Mama made me crack up with this post about realizing at finals time that her textbook was brown, not blue. LOL!! Soooo something I have done.
Magic Cookie discusses the brilliance (or stupidity) of joining study groups
GoogieBaba is so ready to rock exams that her family is living out fact patterns for her. 
It’s not law school-related, but I want to share Andrea’s post on these latest horrific tales from the various immigrant detention centers around the U.S.
Andrea is also rocking her last 3L papers in preparation for graduation and still managing to come up with some fun ways to study world capitals in preparation for her turn as the second half of the Jeopardy Couple.
I want Cee’s professor!!!!
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**Hat tip to the “original†Roundup — Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground and Divine Angst
