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

To: SirVinny who wrote (580818)	6/6/2004 2:04:52 AM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

"Was the war based on Weapons of Mass Destruction" No. This was part (a large part) of the justification. He was a danger in the post 9-11 world. He was in violation of numerous U.N. resolutions. Ridding his country of WMD's being one of the biggest. If he did not have any (which is no where near proven, yet you state as fact), all he had to do was come clean and state how he got rid of them. He chose not to. We responded. Sorry if that hurts your feelings. You must think he is trustworthy, and that it is ok to violate resolutions that were tied to his surrender. In a post 9-11 world this was not acceptable when the amount of damage he could have done (or aided) was considered. It also was a justified opportunity to give a democratic system a chance in the arab world. Something the anti-U.S. postion people think they are not capable of or do not deserve. Why else would they make stupid statements of fact that they could have NO WAY OF KNOWING.

To: SirVinny who wrote (580818)	6/6/2004 9:09:36 AM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So kerry and kennedy want to work on a national health plan...... they might want to do a little work on the home front first..... June 04, 2004 Boston Patients Wait Long Time for Doctors ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON (AP) - Patients in Boston must wait more than a month on average to see medical specialists, the longest in a survey of 15 major cities, though it has half again as many doctors as the national average. The shortest wait - eight to 15 days - was in Washington, D.C., according to the survey released this week by the Irving, Texas-based consulting firm Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, which recruits employees for hospitals and doctors' offices. New patients in Boston wait an average of 37 days to see a cardiologist, 45 days to see an obstetrician-gynecologist and 50 days to see a dermatologist, the survey found. To compile the data, researchers called 1,062 specialists' offices in 15 cities posing as new patients and requested appointments for nonurgent problems. The survey did not address why some cities are worse than others. Consulting firm officials and other experts said reasons could include shortages of specialists as older doctors retire or cut back their workload. Patients may also be seeking more appointments because managed care insurers have loosened restrictions on access to specialists, they said. "Frankly, I'm at a loss to explain it," said Paul Ginsburg, president of The Center for Studying Health System Change, a nonprofit research group based in Washington, D.C. "Boston is a great place to practice. But this is a long-standing pattern." Massachusetts has 356 doctors for every 100,000 residents, compared with 234 doctors per 100,000 people nationally in 2002, according to the most recent data from the American Medical Association. The Massachusetts Medical Society suggested that physicians have begun leaving the state because of high malpractice premiums and the steep cost of living. Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, chief of dermatology at Boston Medical Center, said many doctors work in academic medical centers, where they also conduct research and teach medical students, leaving less time for patient care.