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To: Brumar89 who wrote (505318)	8/17/2009 12:56:28 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579765

Hawking was NOT a quadriplegic at birth. He was diagnosed with ALS after he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs. "It was a great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease. I had never been very well co-ordinated physically as a child. I was not good at ball games, and my handwriting was the despair of my teachers. Maybe for this reason, I didn't care much for sport or physical activities. But things seemed to change when I went to Oxford, at the age of 17. I took up coxing and rowing. I was not Boat Race standard, but I got by at the level of inter-College competition. In my third year at Oxford, however, I noticed that I seemed to be getting more clumsy, and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason. That's what you all seems to happen with the NHS. Then get rid of him when he was 17. His upkeep was about to get very expensive. That's what you all seems to think happens with the NHS. The truth is you all don't have a clue about what happens in Europe and health care. You simply have a kneejerk reaction to universal health care and have managed to keep us from making progress in this area for decades.