I occasionally have a peek into CNN, that news channel from over there! Today I watched the most powerful Nation on earth try to explain the "misere" in their health system. Now - if this report had been on a Russian or Cuban TV station, I may have been sceptical, but it wasn't, it was on CNN.........! Seems that 62% of Americans (the rest are probably made up of Politicians, members of the Pharma Industry or illegal immigrants) have enormous problems with their Health Insurance, or paying for it.Half of them are not just grossly UNDER-insured, they are not insured at all! Medicare, the almost National Health System, appears to be the best available, but to be accepted by them is not at all a simple matter. You have to be a receiver of welfare checks (I suppose our form of Social Benefit) at which time you're OK. If you work, particularly self employed, you've had it! Assurance upwards of $20,000 a year, and if you've already suffered from some kind of serio...

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dchktwkh_999ftc2h Under the influence? A series of stories from memory - Montpellier CHU February 2006 At the period when these “events” either happened or didn’t happen, I was in the Intensive Care department of the Central Hospital Unit at Montpellier, France. The same authority where “Nostradamus” had studied many centuries before, I can hardly imagine that this has any relevance, but since I find that the events could be construed as “a look into a possible future”, I simply mention the fact! I have no idea whether these events were simply as a result of the medical treatment involved (high doses of morphine based medicaments) or whether they actually did happen. Proof is not available, but I write down the events as I thought they happened, either as proof of a vivid imagination, or proof of “hidden activities” within Hospital (and other) closed societies! Although only 4 months have passed, I find that I am slowly forgetting details, and at the sa...