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[NightmarePatrol]

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[Puffin]

Sounds a lot like Mississippi.

[CindyLouWho]

If just half of it is true it's bizarre.  (Doesn't urinate like other people?  Huh?)

[lifefeedsonlife]

The problem really isn't Lil' Kim. It's the people around him that keep him in power. There's enough folks there that are getting some kind of benefit that he's allowed to keep the power he has. The folks with the guns and food are satisfied with their lot and so agree to have him stay where he is.

The mythology just helps keep everyone else in line.

When you think about it . . . we're probably no less naive on some levels.

[Lifetime]

Folks, I realize this doesn't have a direct relationship to the topic but for it being the southern half of the whole... but thought you may like to know....
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[size=3]National Health Insurance Program[/size][/color]

[size=3]History: Universal coverage for all citizens[/size][/font][/b]
[size=3]The first health insurance law in South Korea, [/size][/font][size=3]the Medical Insurance Act, came into force in [/size][/font][size=3]December 1963. From July 1977, all companies [/size][/font][size=3]with more than 500 employees were required to [/size][/font][size=3]provide a health insurance program and separate[/size][/font]
[size=3]health insurance societies were established.[/size][/font]
[size=3] In [/size][/font][size=3]January 1979, the insurance coverage requirement [/size][/font][size=3]was expanded to companies with more than [/size][/font][size=3]300 employees, public servants, and private school [/size][size=3]employees. In January 1988, self-employed people [/size][size=3]in rural areas were included under this system.[/size]
[size=3]The year 1989 is the most important year in [/size][size=3]the history of South Korean National Health [/size][size=3]Insurance Program. In July, the health insurance [/size][size=3]program for urban areas was expanded to include[/size]
[size=3]the self-employed. It took 12 years from the establishment [/size][size=3]of the Medical Insurance Act to achieve [/size][size=3]universal health insurance coverage for all citizens. [/size]

[size=3]About ten years later, in 2000, all health [/size][size=3]insurance societies were integrated into a single [/size]insurer, the National Health Insurance Program.
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The reason I thought this interesting...
 
My Korean Daughter In Law and my 2 Granddaughters just came home from a week in Pusan.... attending my Daughter In Law's Brother's Bhuddist Funeral. He was 41 and died on the floor of a Doctors office where he received an injection for back pain. Hmmmmm Autopsy.... his arteries and veins were full of  plaque ...Cholesteral sky high. Heart attack. It seems their system does not encourage any kind of a wellness check-up... read ($$$$$$$$$$) and a 41 year old died. Now I know he may have been eating wrong but, their health system doesn't seem to push Wellness care at all. I, at least, have a physical annually, because my family doctor and my Veterans Administration Primary Care Physician tell me I need it. Now, the life expectancy in South Korea was around 50+ in the 50's ...now 70+ today. He was 41.... I hope you took the time to read the info I (yuk) Copy/Pasted and see if that system does have a similarity to one that is being pushed as we speak. You make the call I guess. Be well all..... and never, ever, leave a prostate exam in the hands of a doctor who can palm a basketball 
 
 

[Lifetime]

" I can't believe it's not butter." 
 
I hope all forgive me for the Copy Paste Abotion I did but the info is readable.
 
 

"Hi-Jack"
 

Be well all..... and never, ever, leave a prostate exam in the hands of a doctor who can palm a basketball 

Now...Now...that may be the Best exam that you will ever get...and after...he may even Butte...ah we already went there... ...
 
In all Seriousness... I hope all are paying attention to what is going on in the Health Care Fiasco...
 
"End Hi-Jack"