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HOW 'LIBERAL' CARE WOULD KILL TED - New York Post

Now can anyone on Skype challenge this data that states government healt care is TERRIble

Tags: health, government, brain, tumor, service on 2008-06-05 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Consider Jennifer Bell of Norwich, England. In 2006, the 22-year-old complained of headaches for months - but Britain's National Health Service made her wait a year to see a neurologist.
Then she had to wait more than three months before should could get what the NHS decided was only a "relatively urgent" MRI scan. Three days before the MRI appointment, she died.
Consider, too, the chemo drug Kennedy is receiving: Temodar, the first oral medicine for brain tumors in 25 years.
Consider Jennifer Bell of Norwich, England. In 2006, the 22-year-old complained of headaches for months - but Britain's National Health Service made her wait a year to see a neurologist.
Then she had to wait more than three months before should could get what the NHS decided was only a "relatively urgent" MRI scan. Three days before the MRI appointment, she died.
IRONICALLY enough, the dangers of the lib eral health-care agenda are being made clear by the care that a liberal icon, Sen. Ted Kennedy, has received since his brain seizure last month.
governments that promise to "cover everyone" always wind up cutting corners simply to save money.
Of course, with his wealth and power, Kennedy would get good treatment anywhere. But the same care is available to every American.
Kennedy was quickly diagnosed with a malignant glioma - a rare and often-fatal form of brain cancer. Less than two weeks later, his tumor was being removed by one of the world's experts in brain cancer at Duke Univeristy Medical Center.
Temodar has been widely used in this country since the FDA approved it in 2000. But a British health-care rationing agency, the National Institute for Comparative Effectiveness, ruled that, while the drug helps people live longer, it wasn't worth the money - and denied coverage for it.
Even today, only a handful of Brits with brain tumors can get Temodar.
Things are no different in Canada, where the wait for an MRI (once you finally get a referral) has grown to 10 weeks. For Canadians relying on their government health care, the average wait time from diagnosis of cancer to surgery is beyond the guideline set by both the US and European societies for surgical oncology.
And HealthCanada, the government system, similar refuses to pay for treatments that are often covered in America.
Chad Curley, a 37-year-old auto worker from Windsor, Ontario, had a brain tumor like Kennedy's but can't have surgery because his is too large to be operable.
His tumor didn't respond to Temodar and the same doctors now treating Sen. Kennedy told him and his wife that the Avastin combination could stop his tumor from growing and add months to his life. But HealthCanada wouldn't pay to use Avastin to treat his tumor.

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Sadam's Death For Oil program KILLED millions of Iraqi people

Tags: food, health, iraq, oil, sadam, sick, war, water on 2008-03-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: IRAQ Improvements

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While there are many controversies regarding U.N. resolutions and sanctions placed by the U.N. against Iraq it remains a fact that Sadam's beligerent attitude to the U.N. documents and to the IAIE (Unscom) caused the death of the people and children identified in the data below.

Resolution 1302
is a continuation of the Oil-for-Food programme, which was not designed
to resolve the crisis in Iraq. When it was assembled in 1996, it was
designed to stop further deterioration. But the fact is that
Oil-for-Food has sustained the humanitarian crisis. Mortality rates of
children under five years of age still remain at 5,000 per month, plus
an additional 2,000-3,000 people per month among adults, other children
and teenagers. These people are dying because of bad water, inadequate
diets, broken down hospital care and collapsed systems.
We
have massive malnutrition in Iraq, despite the Oil-for-Food programme.
There is a huge social collapse, families falling apart with children
out of school taking to the streets. The electric power is 35 per cent
of what it was in 1990. So the Oil-for-Food programme has totally
failed to bring about the well being of the Iraqi people. Having said
that, it has, however, provided something like 20 million tonnes of
basic food. It does make a huge difference in keeping the Iraqi people
alive -- but only barely alive.
The
conditions in Iraq today under the UN economic sanctions and the
Oil-for-Food programme constitute famine conditions. The average birth
weight of a child in Iraq today is less than five pounds. That is an
indicator of famine. The Oil-for-Food programme is something that the
UN should be ashamed of. It is a continuation of the genocide that the
economic embargo has placed on Iraq.
post by liveinfreedom on 2008-02-22

Resolution 1302 is a continuation of the Oil-for-Food programme, which was not designed to resolve the crisis in Iraq. When it was assembled in 1996, it was designed to stop further deterioration. But the fact is that Oil-for-Food has sustained the humanitarian crisis. Mortality rates of children under five years of age still remain at 5,000 per month, plus an additional 2,000-3,000 people per month among adults, other children and teenagers. These people are dying because of bad water, inadequate diets, broken down hospital care and collapsed systems.

We have massive malnutrition in Iraq, despite the Oil-for-Food programme. There is a huge social collapse, families falling apart with children out of school taking to the streets. The electric power is 35 per cent of what it was in 1990. So the Oil-for-Food programme has totally failed to bring about the well being of the Iraqi people. Having said that, it has, however, provided something like 20 million tonnes of basic food. It does make a huge difference in keeping the Iraqi people alive -- but only barely alive.

The conditions in Iraq today under the UN economic sanctions and the Oil-for-Food programme constitute famine conditions. The average birth weight of a child in Iraq today is less than five pounds. That is an indicator of famine. The Oil-for-Food programme is something that the UN should be ashamed of. It is a continuation of the genocide that the economic embargo has placed on Iraq.