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To: bentway who wrote (505119)	8/15/2009 9:18:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1579672

He didn't have ALS as a child. He didn't come down with it till he'd gotten his BA and was married. Its a degenerative disease and he took years to get to the condition people see him in now. He didn't get to the point of being unable to feed himself, dress himself till 1974. By that time he was already world-renowned. There is no way he would be treated as an ordinary citizen that no one ever heard of.

To: bentway who wrote (505119)	8/16/2009 9:37:20 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579672

Hawking's nursing care is provided foundations NOT the NHS: Hawking, in response to a query from London's Guardian newspaper that was apparently prompted by our editorial, was quoted Tuesday as saying: "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived." We accept this testimony and good fortune. We will note, however, that in talking about his disability on his own Web site, Hawking makes no mention of NHS and instead says that since 1985, when he had a tracheotomy, he has had "24-hour nursing care . . . made possible by several foundations." ibdeditorials.com ht sully Hawking would be dead today if he weren't world famous. He's EXACTLY the kind of guy Obama advisor Ezekiel Emanuel would like to avoid wasting resources on.