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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (17177)	4/19/2000 11:36:00 PM
From: HighTech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Yeah, Ma Richards left a mess that GWB has to clean up. Too bad. HiTech

To: E who wrote (17177)	4/20/2000 1:13:00 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

the state ranks near the top in the nation in rates of AIDS and just how is aids the governors fault? According to a report by the state comptroller's office in 1998, "Health conditions in the Texas-Mexico border are among the worst in the U.S., so distressful that reports on health conditions suggest a remote country in need of medical missionaries, not a part of Texas." ""according to a report""...which means the author of that statement more than likely has never been to the border. So he/she has no clue about the special problems of the area. Problems such as lots of space and very few people. Even the people WITH good insurance have to travel quite a distance to get to a doctor or hospital. There are just no doctors in the area. No money in it. I guess that is gov. fault too? One thing I would like to see. A plan that would provide every kid under a certain age general healthcare. But you know, I remember when I was young, the only insurance I had was through the school. It was cheap and available, and probably fairly general. And I also remember that not very many kids I knew , NEEDED healthcare.

To: E who wrote (17177)	4/20/2000 2:49:00 AM
From: Shawn Donahue	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<From the April 11 NYT:>> I can guess the purpose of that New York Times article...to justify the urgency and need for socialized nationalized health care like Canada...Well, let's look north to see how wonderful it really is: Source: NewsMax newsmax.com Wednesday November 24, 1:18 AM Vaunted Canadian Gov't Health Care System in Collapse With the usual suspects ginning up resentment against America's private sector HMOs, you'd think it was this nation's health care system that was rapidly spinning out of control. Not exactly, explains David Gratzer in his new book Code Blue, which instead ascribes that nightmare scenario to the supposed health care utopia to the north, Canada. New York Post columnist David Frum explored Gratzer's book on Tuesday in a column titled "Killed by National Health Care." Killed? That's right, as in the case of 61-year-old heart patient Philip Georgiou, who checked into a British Columbia hospital complaining of chest pains in 1997. An angiogram showed Georgiou needed immediate surgery. Twelve days later, while still awaiting the procedure, Georgiou lapsed into cardiac arrest and died. Then there was 66-year-old Jeannine Lacombe, who sought treatment for her chest pains at Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. She was strapped to a gurney and wheeled into a hallway, where - lost among 63 other patients similarly situated - four hours later she was discovered dead. Frum passed on other stunning tidbits from Gratzer's book, such as the fact that the average American cancer patient waits no more than 10 days for radiation therapy while Canadians typically cool their heels for four times that long. An MRI scan in the U.S. can be had after an average wait of four days. In Canada, try 150. The delays have exacted their toll. The number of years a Canadian can expect to live in good health has actually fallen since 1978. It's now 2.3 years less for women, 0.4 years less for men. For all the corner cutting, Canadians don't have much by way of savings to show for their trouble. In fact, under nationalized health care, prices have skyrocketed 33 percent since 1990. Canadian Medicare already consumes 21 cents out of every payroll dollar. In America liberals have already begun demagoguing the health care issue in preparation for next year's presidential campaign. That includes the mother of Hillarycare herself, who kicked off her U.S. Senate bid last summer by telling New Yorkers that she'd learned her lesson after her own 1994 health care debacle. Next time, Hillary said, she'll go more slowly.