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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cavan who wrote (33700)	6/12/2005 11:55:57 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Quebec Ban on Private Health Insurance Is Struck Down June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's highest court struck down a Quebec law that bars people from buying insurance to pay their own medical expenses and bypass the province's public-health system, opening the way for creation of private clinics. The Supreme Court of Canada today voted 6-3 to overturn a lower court ruling. The ban violates Quebec's constitution by denying people vital health care and putting their lives in jeopardy, the high court said. ``This is the end of medicare as we know it,'' John Williamson, federal director of the lobby group Canadian Taxpayers' Federation, said in a telephone interview. ``It's also the beginning of better care.'' The decision paves the way for lawsuits to be filed in the rest of Canada's provinces and puts the country of 33 million people on a path toward the kind of two-tier health-care system prevalent in most European countries, Williamson said. Prime Minister Paul Martin has resisted efforts in British Columbia and Alberta to let private clinics provide services covered by the government-funded system. ``The evidence in this case shows that delays in the public health care system are widespread, and that, in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists,'' the Supreme Court said in its ruling. Prohibiting private health insurance allows ``only the very rich, who can afford private health care without need of insurance, to secure private care.'' U.K. Example Martin has threatened to cut off federal funding to provinces that violate the Canada Health Act by allowing private clinics. The Supreme Court said the publicly funded system can co-exist with private care, as in the U.K. ``The evidence on the experience of other western democracies with public health care systems that permit access to private health care refutes the government's theory that a prohibition on private health insurance is connected to maintaining quality public health care,'' the ruling said. The lawsuit was filed in 1997 by Quebec businessman George Zeliotis, 73, who had waited a year for hip-replacement surgery. He was told it was illegal to buy private health insurance. Quebec courts had ruled that although the law violated the constitution it had to remain in place to protect the public health-care system. To contact the reporter on this story: Joe Schneider in Ottawa at jschneider5@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: June 9, 2005 12:50 EDT bloomberg.com

To: cavan who wrote (33700)	6/12/2005 1:22:26 PM
From: AurumRabosa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Bushism gallery: ucomics.com dubya is the most stupid person to ever enter the White House.

To: cavan who wrote (33700)	6/12/2005 4:23:07 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Cross-dresser Caved-In thinks this is Bush's fault too: IRAN-Bombs kill 8, wound 75 in Iran before election Reuters ^ \| Jun 12, 2005 \| Hossein Jasseb AHVAZ, Iran (Reuters) - Bombs killed eight people and wounded 75 in Iran on Sunday in a rare string of attacks five days before a presidential election. Security is tight in the Islamic republic, where bombings have been almost unheard of in the past decade. Four bombs in Ahvaz, capital of the partly Arabic-speaking province of Khuzestan, where most of Iran's oil reserves lie, targeted government buildings, killing seven people, provincial officials said. Hours later, a bomb in the capital Tehran killed one person. In the Ahvaz blasts, two of the dead were women, and 70 people were wounded, the officials said. Ethnic unrest claimed five lives in Khuzestan in April. The Popular Democratic Front of Ahvaz, which is campaigning for an independent Khuzestan, denied it was behind the attacks, but said another Arab group calling itself the Ahvazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades had claimed responsibility. The Tehran bomb was hidden in a rubbish bin. Apart from the person killed, five people were wounded, Ali Aghamohammadi, spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council, said. The dead man, 65-year-old Asghar Fattahi, had been waiting for a bus near Imam Hossein square in a crowded district. "I was two blocks away when I heard a giant explosion. What's going on? First in Ahvaz and now in Tehran?" said a telecommunications worker, who gave his name only as Omid. There was no immediate word on who had carried out the Tehran bombing or whether it was linked to the attacks in Ahvaz. The bombs in Ahvaz, 550 km (340 miles) southwest of Tehran, targeted the governor's office, as well as two local government departments and a housing complex for state media employees. (Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...