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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (704543)	3/16/2013 2:55:28 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1573092

>> And they wouldn't be required to wait in France whose med system is rated much higher than ours... As you are 99.9% of the time, you are dead wrong. "For the optimum handling of the disease, this recommended the availability of 10 MRI scanners per one million people by 2011 and a maximum of 10 to 15 days wait for patients. In reality, the average wait still remained at 32.2 days in 2011, compared to 34.5 days in 2009, and up to 55 days – almost two months – in the most underprivileged areas (Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charente or Alsace). Considering the ageing population, which leads to new patho logies and new needs, it is considered that 63% of the French population is subjected to a waiting time exceeding 30 days, compared to 50% in 2006. Since its creation in 1999, the ISA (Imagerie Santé Avenir), which gathers medical imaging information, has annually evaluated the delay before obtaining an MRI appointment. After having repeatedly pointed out the French backwardness in terms of equipment, in recent years ISA has been even more preoccupied by the increasing geographic inequalities. In some areas of the country patients might wait up to 75 days!" European-Hospital.com, June 2011

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (704543)	3/16/2013 3:34:53 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1573092

BEN CARSON: Obama trying to 'destroy country'... BEN CARSON By Eliana Johnson March 16, 2013 http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343156/carson-obama-trying-destroy-country-eliana-johnson Dr. Benjamin Carson, the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital who garnered national headlines for his pointed remarks at last month’s National Prayer Breakfast, says that President Obama and his political allies are trying to “destroy the country.” “Let’s say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation,” Carson postulated in remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “I would create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.” Carson, who is 62, said that the blame for the nation’s current state of affairs does not lie with “any one particular person.” His barbs, though, were clearly aimed at President Obama. Drawing a link between his medical practice and his political beliefs, Carson argued that righting the nation’s course requires governance “of and by the people.” “That’s why we have these complex brains,” he explained, and went on to joke, “the number of interconnections you have [between neurons] rivals the national debt.” At the National Prayer Breakfast in February, Carson — with President Obama as a captive audience — lodged a full-frontal assault on the president’s agenda, from progressive taxation to Obamacare. Carson’s remarks led to calls, most notably from the Wall Street Journal editorial board, for him to launch a presidential bid come 2016. He will retire from medicine in three months and, though he declined to discuss his particular plans, he indicated that he hopes to become further involved in educational initiatives; Carson founded a scholarship fund in 1996. In an event billed as “President Obama’s (National Prayer) Breakfast Club,” Carson shared the stage with Eric Metaxas, the author of a biography of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who used his time on stage at 2012’s breakfast to argue that progressives have distorted Christianity in the service of political ideology.