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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (522158)	10/20/2009 6:00:43 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

JFShepard, > If you have no facts, you have no case. If you're going to call B.S. on what I'm saying, you might want to have some data of your own. You know, like actually talking to a few Chinese or Koreans who have relatives that lived through Japan's atrocities. Which you have already admitted that you haven't done. Much easier for a chickens--t liberal to demand proof from the other side. You're not the first one to pull that trick. Tenchusatsu

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (522158)	10/20/2009 6:51:30 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

3,000 NHS staff get private care Marie Woolf, Whitehall Editor THE National Health Service has spent £1.5m paying for hundreds of its staff to have private health treatment so they can leapfrog their own waiting lists. More than 3,000 staff, including doctors and nurses, have gone private at the taxpayers’ expense in the past three years because the queues at the clinics and hospitals where they work are too long. Figures released under the Freedom of Information act show that NHS administrative staff, paramedics and ambulance drivers have also been given free private healthcare. This has covered physiotherapy, osteopathy, psychiatric care and counselling — all widely available on the NHS. “It simply isn’t fair to have one service for staff and another for everyone else,” said Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, who obtained the figures. “If the NHS has to circumvent their own waiting lists the system isn’t working well enough. It’s an admission by the NHS that their own system isn’t able to respond to the mass of people desperate to get back to work.” The number of health service employees sent to private healthcare facilities has more than doubled in the past three years. In 2006-7, 708 staff working for NHS trusts received private treatment at a cost of £279,000. Last year it increased to 1,641 at a cost of £828,413. The health department defended the practice and said sending doctors, nurses and other key staff for private treatment helped to get them back to work. “If trusts want to get their staff back to work more quickly they can’t jump NHS waiting lists, so going private is an option,” said the spokesman. “There is evidence that early intervention in tackling sickness absence enables staff to return to work more quickly. “Other benefits include: reducing the risk of chronic illness that could result in ill health retirement, cost-saving on temporary staff and having a positive impact on staff health and wellbeing and, in turn, patient satisfaction.” ... timesonline.co.uk