[lit-ideas] Re: FW: Re: Rehnquist
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:01:04 EDT
<<BTW, anyone catch 60 Minutes last
night? It was on "medical tourism>>
Yes -- Jim and I were stunned by it..... We must add the information to our
database of preparedness <g>. Thanks for posting the link -- I was going to
go searching for it this morning.
Julie Krueger
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] FW: Re: Rehnquist
Date: 9/5/05 9:07:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time From: _aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I wrote:
> That's what made America strong, the money spent on the middle class. The
> middle class is the economic engine of this country. Today the middle
> class only gets slammed while China makes them their priority.
>
I didn't add that today even disaster relief is thought to be an
entitlement, sucking on the mother tit. BTW, anyone catch 60 Minutes last
night? It was on "medical tourism". Apparently Thailand, India and other
places in the Pacific Rim have such advanced, inexpensive medical care that
Americans without insurance who can't afford $100,000 bypasses are getting
them there for under $15,000. Face lifts, hip replacements, everything, at
up to 1/8 or less the cost here. All equipment is state of the art, and
many of the doctors are trained overseas. Americans combine it with a
vacation, hence the "tourism". Hospitals in Thailand look like hotels,
rooms are private, all attendants are R.N.'s. Likewise India. India in
particular has the goal of becoming the premier medical provider of the
world.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/21/60minutes/main689998.shtml
For Julie, it's certainly heartening that some people did rise to the
occasion, but it doesn't exonerate the DHS's negligence and incompetence.
I'm sure Bush and the DHS will point to this as more reason to not fund
disaster relief and applaud themselves as not having done anything.
Andy Amago
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 9/4/2005 6:30:08 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Rehnquist
> >
> > Sunday, September 4, 2005, 10:24:44 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
> >
> > EY> Btw I know nothing much about Rehnquist except things like he sounds
> > EY> like a minor Nazi
> >
> > http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/100/biography
> >
> >
>
>
> Excerpted from the above:
> "Like many Americans in his generation, Rehnquist attended college after
> World War II with the support of scholarship money from the GI Bill."
>
> That's what made America strong, the money spent on the middle class. The
> middle class is the economic engine of this country. Today the middle
> class only gets slammed while China makes them their priority.
>
>
> Andy Amago
> Off to watch Spiderman II and debating why there is no Caterpillar Man.
>
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> > (some would be less polite)
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