The W.Bush Presidency is currently not recongized for accomplishing much.

But, you'd think the liberal, socialist, DEM., sons a' bitches could at
least manage to give him and his Dept.OfHomelandSecurity at least SOME
CREDIT for the fact that we have not had any domestic terrorist attacks in
SEVEN YEARS. His actions must have put some kind of a wake-up call, maybe
a bit of fear, into the RagHead extremists......

They haven't held off because the LOVE US ----- that's for damn sure !

Who would have guessed that long with no further attacks back on 9/11 ???

Give th' SHRUB a little credit.....

McDaveOfMerryland
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Don't become the victim of a surgical error
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/07/17/ep.surgical.errors/index.html

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- I thought my husband was crazy.

When our 2-year-old daughter had hernia surgery, he insisted on seeing
the surgeon minutes before to remind him that the hernia was on her
right side, not her left.

The nurses weren't happy; it wasn't protocol to have the surgeon meet
with parents immediately before a procedure.

"Maybe this is overkill," I said to my husband. "He knows what side the
hernia's on. He's already seen her twice in his office. Plus, we've told
the pre-op nurses 10 times it's on the right side."

But experts tell me my husband was right on. Mistakes do happen, no
matter how great the surgeon, and it behooves you to help them get it
right. Witness these headlines: Minnesota doctors remove the healthy
kidney of a cancer patient while leaving the diseased one behind;
California doctors remove the appendix of the wrong patient; one of the
most experienced surgeons in a Boston, Massachusetts, hospital operates
on the wrong side of a patient. All of these mistakes happened in the
past year. VideoEmpowered Patient: Surgical errors »

NPR: On Health Podcast [NPR]
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=89697157

After-Hours Doctor Calls Save Holland Money
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92606938

Morning Edition, July 17, 2008 · In the United States, the growing
number of uninsured Americans means more people do not have a family
doctor or primary care provider. When they suffer a worrisome accident
or problem, they may end up in the nearest hospital emergency room.

In fact, costs to hospital ERs have been growing over the past decade
and ERs nationwide have had to close their doors or limit their hours as
a result of out of control, burdensome costs.

Estimates vary but health officials suggest that as many as half of all
hospital ER visits are non-urgent, meaning those patients could be
treated effectively in a doctor's office or health clinic. But often,
people don't have that choice. They don't have a doctor, and there is no
health clinic nearby.

In the Netherlands, all citizens have access to 24/7 primary healthcare.
The system is organized much like a health maintenance organization, so
patients are required to get approval from their primary care provider
before they can see a specialist or go to the hospital.

Individual health policies leave many behind
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-07-16-healthcoverage_N.htm

Soon after a pediatrician noted in his medical records that 5-year-old
Logan Swaim was short for his age, his mother, Theresa, tried to buy
health insurance.

Her husband, William, had started his own landscaping business after
being laid off, and the insurance he got from his former employer was
about to expire. Two insurers accepted the Swaims and three of their
children for new coverage, but they rejected Logan, fearing his height —
40½ inches — might indicate a glandular problem that could be expensive
to treat.

For two years, the Swaims paid all of Logan's medical bills themselves,
about $4,300. Eventually they got test results showing there was nothing
wrong with him. Even so, the insurers wouldn't cover him, Theresa Swaim
says, because the time to appeal the denial of coverage had expired.

The American Way-Pay more, get less.

While the U.S. Spends Heavily on Health Care, a Study Faults the Quality
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/business/17health.html

American medical care may be the most expensive in the world, but that
does not mean it is worth every penny. A study to be released Thursday
highlights the stark contrast between what the United States spends on
its health system and the quality of care it delivers, especially when
compared with many other industrialized nations.

The report, the second national scorecard from this influential health
policy research group, shows that the United States spends more than
twice as much on each person for health care as most other
industrialized countries. But it has fallen to last place among those
countries in preventing deaths through use of timely and effective
medical care, according to the report by the Commonwealth Fund, a
nonprofit research group in New York.

Access to care in the United States has worsened since the fund’s first
report card in 2006 as more people — some 75 million — are believed to
lack adequate health insurance or are uninsured altogether. And within
the nation, the report found, the cost and quality of care vary drastically.