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To: Alighieri who wrote (536468)	12/14/2009 3:14:35 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578927

>> How many multi hundreds of the $400B Medicare spends yearly? The multi-hundred billion dollar problem encompasses all government health care initiatives. You might notice that's what I said.

To: Alighieri who wrote (536468)	12/14/2009 4:15:10 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578927

This is where the US is heading. "Silvio Berlusconi's personal doctor put off a decision on when Italy's prime minister should be released from hospital, saying the 73-year-old's injuries were worse than initially announced. Dr Alberto Zangrillo said the media tycoon had lost half a litre of blood after being hit in the face with a plaster souvenir during an attack on him at a rally in Milan on Sunday night. Zangrillo said although his patient would not need an operation, it would take the prime minister at least 25 days to recover fully. "The consequences are more serious than we could say [on Sunday] evening," he said after seeing Berlusconi. "I found him shaken, annoyed – as if woken, really out-of-sorts, from a bad dream." Italy's billionaire leader suffered a fractured nose and two broken teeth after being hit by a replica of Milan's famously jagged cathedral, the Duomo, which took place as he mingled with the crowd in the city. He was cut under one eye and his top lip was split in two places. An earlier medical bulletin issued by the San Raffaele hospital in Milan to which he was admitted said he was in "persistent" pain. It said Berlusconi was being given antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs. A doctor reported the prime minister was eating only with difficulty. As Berlusconi began his recovery, there was speculation the attack would complicate Italy's already intensely polarised and febrile politics. A 42 year-old man, Massimo Tartaglia, was arrested and jailed, accused of premeditated assault. Police said he was found to be carrying a pepper spray. An electronics technician whose inventions once earned him an interview in Il Giornale, the Berlusconi family's newspaper, Tartaglia was reported to have a 10-year history of mental instability. But his assault came against a background of passionate anti-Berlusconi protest. Zangrillo said that while still bloodied, the prime minister had told him: "There is a climate of hatred. I expected this to happen.""