Re: Preventive health care: "Chronic Radiation- "

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

This is truely astounding.  The population of the U.S.

(270 million) has an exposure of 0.0036 Sv, for a

total of 990,000 person Sv, and we have an cancer rate

of 25%!!!



By control population, do you mean those who live in

Taiwan, or those of the same age who have lived in

similar builings for the same periods of time?  As I

am sure you know, there is a difference.



--- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Barbara and Radsafers,

> "Is Chronic Radiation an Effective Prophylaxis

> Against Cancer?"  ChenWC, Luan YC et al, J M Phys

> and Surg, Spring 2004 pp6-10, analizes the amazingly

> low (3% vs control pop) cancer incidence among

> 10,000 Taiwan apartment dwellers exposed for 9-20

> years to av 0.4 Sv (4,000 person-Sv).from Co60 in

> construction steel. See  www.aapsonline.org .

> 

> Barbara, "universal health care" is here. I give it.

> Regardless of ability to pay, I give primary care to

> workaholic Mexican restaurant workers, who usually

> pay a small fee to get more than Medicaid supplied.

> If you mean "Universal" to be "Compulsory", beware!.

> Canadians were 70% happy with their system - until

> they had to use it. Now only 20% like it because of

> long waits, impersonal "care", etc. I visited the

> Hernia center in London.  I found that a working man

> cannot afford free NHS care. Why wait 6 mo when for

> $1,900 he can have better care and be back at work

> in 2 weeks? 

> 

> In health care as in health physics, over-regulation

> stifles benefit. Patient Power, Cato Inst Washington

> DC details the science proving that self-managed

> care (MSAs or Health Savings Accounts effective Jan

> 1 2004) gives superior and thriftier care. Bush

> pushes MSAs, missile defense, terrorist pre-emption,

> and energy independence (read nuclear). However, the

> inertia of bureaucracy supported by the bigger

> government opposition stifles choices - like the

> uranium ore Cameron and I want under our mattresses.

> 

> 

> Howard Long

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

>   From: BLHamrick@AOL.COM 

>   To: NiagaraNet@AOL.COM ;

> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu ; RuthWeiner@AOL.COM 

>   Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:27 PM

>   Subject: Re: Thank you Ruth Weiner

> 

> 

>   In a message dated 3/26/2004 6:15:59 PM Pacific

> Standard Time, NiagaraNet@AOL.COM writes:

>     I suppose to pay these men who made some

> sacrifice by their very proximity to these sites and

> materials, even after the fact, in your opinion, is

> outlandish or somehow wrong. I beg to differ. If

> this makes me a "bleeding heart," I'm only glad I

> reside on this side of the compassion fenceline. I

> sleep at night.

>   Technically, I'm a "bleeding heart" on most

> issues...But, I don't "get" this one.  What was the

> sacrifice?  If there's no definitive connection

> between the work and the disease, then how are these

> people any different than the other half million

> that die of cancer every year?

> 

>   You do realize that the primary preventable

> factors contributing to cancer and other chronic

> disease are firsthand smoke, alcohol abuse, poor

> nutrition, lack of physical activity and also a lack

> of access to preventive health care (preventing

> early diagnosis), right?  Perhaps the gabillions we

> spend on cleaning up every last atom of whatever is

> the toxin of the day would be better spent on

> providing universal healthcare.  I would wager we'd

> save more people in a year than more stringent

> environmental regulation would save in twenty.

> 

>   Barbara





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""A fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and won't change the subject."  Winston Churchill



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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