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    Default "The Making of Donald Trump" ~ ~ (The Final "Nail" In Trumpy's "Box")

    If this doesn't finish-off any possibility of Trumpy-The-Con being elected....this Country is in worse-shape than anyone's willing to admit.....much like our environment.

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?414381...d-cay-johnston


    ”David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times investigative reporter, gives Trump the thorough scrubbing he deserves...Johnston has done voters a service with this unblinking portrait. He makes a compelling case that Trump has the attributes of both 'dictator' and 'deceiver' and would be a disaster in the Oval Office.” — Financial Times


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    Socialized Medicine Elsewhere Shows Why It Is a Failure
    January 22, 2008 International Health Systems Commentary

    By Grace-Marie Turner

    Britain’s system of socialized medicine is enough to make your teeth hurt – literally.

    Its citizens rely upon the government-run National Health Service that is designed to provide free access to every medical service, including dental care. But like all socialized medicine schemes, it has produced long lines, a shortage of medical professionals, and shoddy care.

    William Kelly, a resident of a working-class suburb of Manchester, represented the frustrations of many Britons when he plucked out one of his own teeth last year. Why? Because the pain had become intolerable, and the wait to see a dentist was unbearably long. When he spoke with The New York Times last summer, Kelly had been unable to get a dentist appointment for six years.

    At the beginning of 2006, only 49 percent of British adults and 63 percent of children were registered with public dentists. Because dentists are paid on a per-patient basis, the government’s system encourages public dentists to treat as many patients as possible, often leading to inadequate care and roughshod work.

    With pay tied directly to the number of patients a dentist sees, for example, it makes more sense — financially, at least — for a dentist to extract teeth rather than perform a more complex and time consuming root canal. And the pool of available dentists is shriking as more are leaving the National Health Service to work in the private sector where they can be paid more.

    Last April, 2,000 dentists did just that, according to the British Dental Association. In understandable frustration, many Britons have resorted to “Do it Yourself Dentistry” kits sold in pharmacies.

    Take the case of Gordon Cook, a 55-year-old security manager. After failing to find an NHS dentist, he resorted to fixing his front tooth with superglue, according to a November article in the Daily Mail. For three years, Cook constantly reapplied the glue to a loose crown before finally finding a dentist.

    “You can't really taste it but you do have to be careful not to use too much, in case you glue your mouth shut,” said Cook.

    But don’t expect advocates for socialized medicine to be honest about the major failings of the supposedly utopian English system.

    Defenders of European-style healthcare will often observe that the United States spends a greater percentage of its GDP on healthcare than any other country in the world. And, with measures like life expectancy, America’s outcomes are often worse than those countries with socialized systems.

    But these arguments fail to take into account the quality of care provided.

    Because socialized medicine rejects the basic laws of supply and demand — and because state-administered systems do not pay doctors what the market determines they are worth — there is a serious discrepancy between the number of doctors and number of patients. This leads to the inevitable “waiting times” that one hears so much about in countries like Great Britain and Canada.

    A report by the Canadian Fraser Institute found that the average wait time from referral by a general practitioner to a specialist is 18 weeks, the longest ever recorded in Canada.

    Despite all the attempts made by the Canadian government to improve this problem, the average wait time actually rose by an astonishing 91% between 1993 and 2006. No matter how much money the Canadian government throws into the program, the problem does not go away. They just haven’t figured out how to repeal the laws of supply and demand.

    Further, in the interest of national budgets, state-administered health systems have an incentive to put saving money before patients.

    Japan, for example, spends only about half as much of its GDP on healthcare as the United States. But the comparatively low salaries doctors receive have caused a serious shortage of cancer specialists in a country where cancer rates are rising and the disease is the leading cause of death.

    Indeed, “cancer refugees” — cancer patients desperately seeking care — have become a national crisis. At a recent event protesting the Japanese government’s lackadaisical approach to battling cancer, a cancer sufferer cried, “While Japan has become economically prosperous, cancer patients are in the same position as refugees who wander in search of food, water and someone who can help.” The patient died seven months later.

    Those who advocate for universal healthcare may have their hearts in the right place, but they would do well to examine how the systems they support are actually performing around the world. So the next time you hear about the wonders of socialized medicine, remember Gordon Cook and his mouth full of superglue.

    http://galen.org/topics/socialized-m...-is-a-failure/ A not-for-profit health and tax policy research organization
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    September 12, 2016 - "Why does Donald Trump say such nice things about Vladimir Putin and Russia? What is Trump hiding in the tax returns he refuses to release? And are those two questions related?

    Voters should demand answers. Until we get them, we can only speculate about Trump’s weird admiration for a strongman who presides over a system of autocratic cronyism, flouts international law with his territorial ambitions, works against U.S. interests in hot spots around the globe, and apparently might have even deployed computer hackers to meddle in our election.

    There may be nothing nefarious here; perhaps Trump just admires Putin’s swaggering style. But there are reasons to wonder whether Trump’s warm-and-fuzzy feelings are prompted by financial motives.


    In July, Trump said in a tweet that he has “ZERO investments in Russia.” If this is true, the more relevant question may be the extent to which Russian oligarchs, by definition beholden to Putin, have investments in Trump and his empire.

    In 2008, Trumps son Donald Trump Jr. said at a New York real estate conference that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.” Referring to the Trump Organization, where he works with his father, he added that “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

    A 2010 federal lawsuit alleged that much of the money that financed the Trump SoHo luxury hotel development in Manhattan, which broke ground in 2006, came from a shadowy Iceland-based corporate entity. The suit alleged that the money behind the firm was mostly Russian,” and that the Russians involved “were in favor with Putin.”

    Which raises an obvious question: To what extent are Trump and the Trump Organization dependent on Russian investment? We have no way of knowing. Examination of Trumps tax returns might provide the answer."



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    Default More About Canada's Failed Health Care System.
    On November 2, 2015, an elderly man presented himself at the emergency room of St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal, complaining of severe abdominal pain. He lost consciousness; an ultrasound revealed an aortic aneurism, likely accompanied by severe internal bleeding.

    The patient needed immediate surgery. Instead of operating, the hospital transferred him by ambulance to another institution. He died before he could be treated there.

    Why wouldn’t St. Mary’s operate on this critically ill patient? Because the requisite procedure was deemed “eccentric to the mission” of the hospital. Translation: It was no longer performed there, even though a vascular surgeon was on call at the time and could have saved the man’s life.

    Tragically, this isn’t the first time such a policy has killed a patient. At a press conference last October, Ontario doctors decried the health care rationing which resulted in the death of a terminally-ill patient in the emergency room. In Saskatchewan, a hospital is under investigation after a man with heart disease died after waiting three and a half hours in the ER complaining of chest pains. Earlier that year, in P.E.I., a woman recounted how her father-in-law died after waiting days for an ambulance to transport him to another hospital for treatment.

    In 2014, a Fraser Institute report on wait times and mortality found that, between 1994 and 2009, “increases in wait times for medically necessary elective treatment may be associated with 44,273 additional female deaths … (representing) 2.5 per cent of total female deaths during the period or 1.2 per cent of total mortality (male and female) during the period.” For non life-threatening procedures, such as knee or hip surgery, over-long wait times are also routine, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information; while they may not mean death, they do lead to prolonged agony, lost productivity and dependency on pain medication.

    open quote 761b1bHealth authorities and hospitals impose rationing to stay within budget. Meanwhile, Canadians with the money to do so take it outside the country to spend on private alternatives.
    So it’s no surprise that more and more Canadians are seeking care outside the country. Another Fraser study found that 52,523 patients travelled outside the country to obtain medical treatment in 2014, up from 41,838 patients in 2013. The main reasons were delays in obtaining treatment, followed by a desire to obtain state-of-the-art care.

    https://ipolitics.ca/2016/01/11/time...is-flatlining/
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