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1096 WHO HEALTH REPORT Japan health systems ranked best (???) -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: > > 2) disability adjusted life expectancy is a controversial way of evaluating > people. WHO discounts for all physical and cognitive disabilities (there > lives are only a "fraction" of a non-disabled life). Reminds me of Jerry Lewis calling those disabled with MD half a person. Blacks were considered three fifths of a person. It is disparaging but it is also expedient. In the case of slavery, for instance, if blacks were not fully human they were m ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 22 12:15:39 PDT 2000

1097 Supreme influence peddling -- rank: 1000

It Goes Straight to the Top US Supreme Court's Souter Named in N.H. Scandal Reuters U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter has been linked to a decision at the heart of an influence-peddling scandal rocking the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday. The newspaper said court documents suggest that in 1987 Souter, then on New Hampshire's highest court, urged the bench to speed up the appeal of a lawsuit involving a company owned by then-state Senate Majority Leader Ed Du ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 21 14:31:08 PDT 2000

1098 Judge rules D2K -- rank: 1000

(BRIEF PRELIMINARY REPORT ON FEDERAL COURT DEVELOPMENTS TODAY 7/19/2000 by Don White, d2kla Network) In a stunning victory for the D2KLA Network, the Mumia Coalition and others, Federal Judge Gary Feess today declared the infamous "no access-no protest zone," to be unconstitutional in its present form and and ordered new guidelines for demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention. In a series of rulings described by d2kla leaders as "a total vindication of the concepts in ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 20 09:55:25 PDT 2000

1099 Medicare fraud -- rank: 1000

Johannes Schneider wrote: > From: Marta Russell asked: > > I wonder if the Western European democratic > > socialist countries experience such a high level > > of public health care rip offs? > Though I cannot compare the level, the public health system in Germany is a > paradise for all kind of inflated prices for suppliers, coruption and fraud. > At the same time nurses and (employed) doctors have to work huge extra time > and are poorly paid. > Johannes Som ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jan 25 07:58:12 PST 2000

1100 Medicare fraud -- rank: 1000

"M.Blackmore" wrote: > I have pretty strong > views about the NHS having now lived in the UK for 30 years. Use of the > word "liars, thieves and degenerate scum" and the appellation "uncivilised > country" to the USA and the dominant health care private organisations in > their resistance to universal competent health care for all, are those > words which I feel able to write in a public forum. I can supply many more > in private which express m ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jan 25 07:35:03 PST 2000

1101 Medicare fraud -- rank: 1000

FYI -- I wonder if the Western European democratic socialist countries experience such a high level of public health care rip offs? Marta PRESIDENT CLINTON RELEASES REPORT ON SUCCESS OF FIGHT AGAINST MEDICARE FRAUD, ANNOUNCES NEW ANTI-FRAUD FUNDING January 22, 2000 In his radio address today, President Clinton will highlight the success of the Administration's efforts to combat Medicare fraud and will announce a new initiative to fortify those efforts. In the wake of this week's landmark recove ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 24 21:16:42 PST 2000

1102 The ADA and the 11th Amendment -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > > > the elderly are not a "discrete and insular" minority in > the parlance of the courts, so there is a lower level of scrutiny for > legislation that makes distinctions in the treatment of the elderly versus > the > non-elderly. > > That's what the Court said. This reasoning is so awful it cries out for > mockery and abuse. The "eldery" may be an actual minority, but since everyone > will be older sometime if th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 23 10:29:01 PST 2000

1103 The ADA and the 11th Amendment -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > Well, one difference that could be used to uphold the ADA is that the > federal government has large blocks of funding for state programs > aimed at the disabled. -- Nathan Newman > -------- > > The problem with this approach is that key elements of ADA are applied > to employment and public accommodation in the private sector where > there is no direct federal funding. So that for example an apartment, > a job, a restaurant, a mall, and a movie ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jan 22 12:49:28 PST 2000

1104 The ADA and the 11th Amendment -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > Well, one difference that could be used to uphold the ADA is that the federal > government has large blocks of funding for state programs aimed at the disabled. > There are a string of precedents allowing the federal government to control > state action based on the receipt of federal funds in that area of legislation. > Whether that is enough to overcome this whole 11th Amendment approach Reinquist > is reviving is an open question, but it might be possi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jan 22 10:05:07 PST 2000

1105 The ADA and the 11th Amendment -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > As I predicted, the Supreme Court agreed to review whether the federal > disabilitiy discrimination law can be applied to the states in view of its > determination the other day that the federal age discrimination laws cannot > be. Arguments in April, decision in (maybe) June or July. Any bets on the > outcome? > > --jks Justin, this is from the 11th circuit Court of Appeals which combines several cases KIMEL, Dickson, and MacPherson, The court's c ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jan 22 09:28:14 PST 2000

1106 health care, part 3 -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > While Medicare is > not means tested and is available to everyone over sixty-five who has > contributed to Social Security, Medicare is available to people with disabilities under age 65 who, at the time of disablement, have worked enough quarters to qualify. Also children of a disabled worker can be covered by Medicare if they are disabled. > Another > division in Medi-Cal is specifically for poor and disabled adults. A > third section is an strange pr ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 20 21:10:06 PST 2000

1107 Question for Justin/ADA & 11th Amendment -- rank: 1000

Justin -- it is bad news but thank you for this carefully thought thro post. It is most helpful. Marta JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > I have bad news for Marta and the disabled, but it takes some explaining. > > snipped to save space

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 20 20:34:56 PST 2000

1108 Question for Justin -- rank: 1000

Justin, I am not a lawyer, got this from a lawyer but am not sure if this analysis is correct: Being unconstitutional under the 11th Amendment (which is what the Court found to be wrong with the ADEA and what the 8th Circuit found to be wrong with the ADA in Alsbrook) only means you can't get money damages. I think there would still be a good argument -- even now in the Eighth Circuit -- that you could get an injunction, that is, an order forcing the state to comply. What that means is that our ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 20 12:48:56 PST 2000

1109 The ADA and the 11th Amendment -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > Well, if it's a public accommodation provided by the state--such as a courthouse or a jail--how could you sue to enforce the ADA requirement that public accommodations have to accommodate PwD? The state would be immune from suit under the 11th amendment. I hasten to say that no court has held this, as far as I know. Yet. But you wait. > > --jks As mentioned in my first post, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals did rule Title II to be unconstitutional [Alsbrook v. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 20 11:35:11 PST 2000

1110 Bradley's Health Care Proposal (RE: West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > the tax credit is refundable and is available to everyone > whether they pay taxes or not. > > Ah, but only if you file. There are limits below which you don't even > have to file. In order to get your credit, you have to get the IRS to > spend a bunch of money to process your paperwork. What a waste! > /jordan > >>>>>>>>>>> > > How else would the Gov redistribute income, if not by > taking ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 20 11:20:13 PST 2000