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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (419349)	12/7/2011 5:23:28 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

"Never had a French girl outside of France. Never had a foreign affair, Never had the chance." Either T. Bone Burnett or one of the other guys in The Alpha Band. I can't remember the title or the writer.

To: Terry Maloney who wrote (419349)	12/8/2011 8:55:58 AM
From: Rarebird	2 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

The problems in regard to socialized medicine in Canada are well-known: shortage of doctors, nurses and hospital beds. Moreover, it takes way too long to get referred to a specialist from a primary care physician. Heavy duty bureaucracy is a killer if you have, for example, bladder or prostrate cancer. My son is a urologist: he is a professor and primarily does medical research in regard to cancer. He has 2 offices, one in NYC, the other in the Bronx and holds office hours one day a week for patients at each location. He is not your typical Greedy American PIG specialist MD, who cries over how little money he makes due to the HMOs. $75 is his basic charge for an office visit (not $500+). Surgical procedures clearly run much higher. If the US invested in medical research the same way it invests in the military, bombs and counter-terrorism activities, people would live longer and beat cancer.