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• Future Medical Insurance Premiums Lowered If We Look After Our Hearts

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 157
  Medical insurance companies are often paying out for treatment for heart conditions. In fact, it is up there at the top with cancers in being one of the biggest factors that will bring down British people. Without medical insurance , sufferers are often subjected to lengthy waits for treatment on the National ...
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• Cancer care on the NHS falls behind the rest of Europe

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  More than nine out of 10 NHS trusts in England are failing to provide a good standard of cancer care compared with other countries, official figures show today.
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• Government Rationed Health Care Kills

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 637
  The United Kingdom hosts the grande dame of government rationed health care (a.k.a., the ‘public option’). It is a broken down system which most Americans would denounce if they had to give up American health care and go with the UK’s National Health Service. Because the system is run by bean counting ...
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• What Nationalized Health Care Looks Like?

  
  Grand Rants — Authority: 498
  No matter how you slice it, this is just frightening. I stumbled upon this diagram (from Great Britain’s National Health Service) on the BBC news site . Check the site out, please. Am I missing something? I read and re-read the article and could find no reference to the numbers – only those on the picture. And ...
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• Preview of Obamacare

  
  Radioactive Communist Zombies — Authority: 129
  Want to see what life will be like once the Democrats succeed in socializing our health care?  Simple, just look to Britain and the National Health Service (NHS).  The socialized medicine horror story de jour is about the quality of care--or lack thereof--at British hospitals.  The UK Telegraph reports : ...
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• More NHS horror stories: Investigation into NHS deaths after hospital scandals

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 421
  Story from the UK Times . (H/T Legal Insurrection via ECM) Excerpt: An immediate investigation to uncover the true extent of death rates across the NHS has been ordered by the Health Secretary after scandals at two hospital trusts. Amid claims that patients are dying due to poor care in at least 27 hospitals ...
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• Pilot Scheme Launched to Help Patients Receive Innovative New Drugs Not Currently Available on the NHS

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  A pilot to help patients get innovative new drugs not currently available on the NHS is being launched for consultation today by Health Minister Mike O’Brien and Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson. The Office for Life Sciences (OLS) Blueprint published in July, detailed the Government’s commitment to ...
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• “Hundreds of Patients Died Needlessly” – A Look Into Our Future?

  
  Behind Blue Lines — Authority: 115
  Having lived under Britain’s NHS, I try to tell my lefty friends that they don’t really want government health care – but to no avail. It’s not about health care anyway, it’s about control and patients be damned.Well, patients are sure damned at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals in Essex. Here’s ...
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• Parents keen to take out health insurance for their kids

  
  The Money Stop — Authority: 134
  According to recent reports there has been a rush in the number of parents that are keen to take out health insurance cover for their children, and this follows an outbreak of illnesses that have caused grave concern to parents.The outbreaks that have led to the increase in parents looking to take out insurance cover ...
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• Paedophilia and the “Trojan Defence”

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 566
  This is a follow-up of sorts to Jeff Debrosses thoughtful post recently on the problem of possible conviction for the possession of illegal paedophiliac material of individuals who had no knowledge of its presence. More recently, a tweet by Bob McMillan drew my attention to an article by Geoff Liesik on ...
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• War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 140
  Image via Wikipedia In the 24/7 Internet world, people make lots of claims. Science provides a guide for testing them When I saw the statement repeated online that theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge would be dead by now if he lived in the U.K. and had to depend on the ...
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• Eyeball to eyeball (with tooth-sucking….)

  
  Writing from the twelfth house — Authority: 107
  Eyeball to eyeball - with politics! Tooth-sucking – ie slow inhalation of air through lower teeth (or, even worse, dentures) – is a very bad sign . Plumbers do it. Electricians do it. Computer geeks do it. Builders are especially prone to it . When accompanied by head-shaking and eyebrow knitting, it is a ...
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• Whats Made Milngavie Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 129
  Alcohol and Scotland . Irvine Welsh has got it right . Ill quote him in (as far as I can tell) full: "Scotland has a growing problem with alcohol abuse. More people, younger people and more women than ever before are at risk from being encouraged to over-consume this drug. This has an incalculable impact on ...
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• Face Off

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 463
  The other day, I indulged in one of my many guilty pleasures. Specifically, I watched a programme called “Face Lifts From Hell.”Like many factual programmes, you can learn a little something from “Face Lifts from Hell”, and tonight I took away this little nugget: It’s not immigrants or asylum seekers that ...
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• LOC 11/16/2009: Chuckie, In The Stirrup Table, With The Flugelhorn.

  
  Left Of Center Podcasts — Authority: 126
  Michela, a student at Pungo University (The good ol’ P.U.), is all about health care making abortion more affordable. In fact, she’s wondering when she qualifies for a companion ticket. Al gives us the Idiotech News of the day, and Charles Farnsworth of Farnsworth Pig Farms calls in to discuss his impending ...
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• £13 Billion per Year: What Immigration Costs the British Taxpayer

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 611
  Criminal immigrants held in British jails cost the taxpayer £283 million per year, new figures have revealed. This means that the annual total cost of immigration to the British taxpayer is now set at just over £13 billion per year. According to official figures revealed in Parliament, the bill for keeping foreign ...
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• A Reason to End a Babys life??

  
  Parenting, Child Development, Shopping Resources, Recalls and Reviews — Authority: 115
  A British hospital wants to remove a 1-year-old boy born with[Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome] a rare neuromuscular condition from life support, but the childs father is fighting to keep him alive.The babys mother agrees with hospital officials, who sought High Court permission Monday to remove the boy from the ...
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• New Legal Rights for Britain’s NHS Patients

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Patients in Britain will have legal rights to maximum waiting times for elective procedures and urgent cancer referrals and to an NHS Health Check every five years for those aged 40-74, if proposals published today are taken forward. The proposals, set out in ‘The NHS Constitution: A consultation on new patient ...
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• Imperial Tobacco profits are still booming but is that a cause for celebration?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Gareth Davis is to retire as chief executive of Imperial Tobacco Group after 14 years making him one of the markets longest survivors.
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• Civil Society Petitions Malawi Government to Reinstate Tuition Subsidy for Nurses

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Malawi’s civil society organizations on Monday petitioned government over its decision to stop paying nurses and midwifery students school fees in the form of subsidies to train them at Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) colleges. The government, through Ministry of Health, announced early this year that ...
  3 weeks ago

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