More musing. Michael J. Fox's autobiography was being broadcast on BBC radio
this week. A couple of chilling stories about how US citizens went straight
to welfare and poverty from middle class occupations from which they were
ejected when it was discovered they had Parkinson's Disease. Presumably they
were also then lost health coverage as he mentioned the high cost of the
drugs they needed.
They wrote to Fox saying we don't mind you getting lots of publicity as long
as you can get some for us too...
At the risk of sounding smug at a time when everyone in Britain is going on
about a crisis in the National Health Service, the principles of free care
for all funded from taxation would certainly not let that happen, though
rationing is creeping in at the margins.
Bruce Robinson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Cole" <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: 26 April 2002 01:34
Subject: musing "aloud"
>
> Musing--
>
> No one noted that yesterday was the anniversary of the Turkish genocidal
> attack on Armenians. There were stories in both the new york times and
> los angeles times. I am thankful I learned to pay attention here.
>
> I am looking at statistics on infant mortalilty around the world. In
> a group in Nepal, infant mortality INCREASES if the mother goes to
> modern medical facilties.
>
> And of course, there is the US. For a story that makes one weep at the
> thought of Paul Wellstone being ill, visit
>
> http://www.press-on.net/articles/1-25indian_children.
>
> The weather in southern california is beautiful and our local 5thD is
> full of kids from many backgrounds, having fun, and ucsd undergraduates,
> from generally more privileged backgrounds, having fun too.
>
> And i get to have fun next week. The person who teaches the 5thD Class
> will be away, so I "have" to teach the course. sigh.
> mike
> PS-- I had this really strange experience. A colleague I have known for
> many years met me several times at AERA but she couldn't recognize me
> to say hello. I must be getting REALLY old.
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed May 01 2002 - 01:00:07 PDT