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  Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This entailed the provision of free health care and education for the entire population.
Through the 1970s and ‘80s, the Soviets were prepared to subsidise all this in exchange for the strategic asset of an ally under the noses of the United States and the undoubted propaganda value of Castro’s considerable prestige in the developing world.
According to the Heritage Foundation, Cuba is dependent on credit accounts that rotate from country to country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuba   (8267 words)

  
 Ethics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
The driver continued explaining that road accident victims are therefore usually left unattended and often die from exposure to the country's harsh desert conditions.
Tallying only those consequences reveals that assisting the victim would be the morally correct choice, irrespective of the negative consequences that result for her.
Upon that foundation, Hobbes developed a normative theory known as social contract theory, which is a type of rule-ethical-egoism.
www.iep.utm.edu /e/ethics.htm   (6475 words)

  
 Ming Empire 1368-1644 by Sanderson Beck
Counties were the basic units of administration with magistrates responsible for tax collection, labor services, care of the aged and indigent, local ceremonies, keeping peace, and administering justice.
Scholars criticized the Emperor for harsh methods; but in 1385 Hongwu had his vice-minister of revenue and hundreds of others executed for embezzling, and the minister of personnel was accused of slandering the head of the National University and was put to death.
Zhu Gaoxu was reduced to a commoner and died from torture.
www.san.beck.org /3-7-MingEmpire.html   (23715 words)

  
 The Best Health and Medicine websites - BestSearchers.com
The MAGIC Foundation is a national nonprofit organization created to provide support services for the families of children afflicted with a wide variety of chronic and/or critical disorders, syndromes and diseases that affect a child's growth.
Committed to the improved care, quality of life and survival of children with malignant diseases.
A scientific and educational association of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice.
www.bestsearchers.com /best-websites/health.html   (1812 words)

  
 Cassel: Civil Liberties Watch
Medical doctors testified that he had the marks of physical torture and the symptoms of having been mentally coerced, but prosecution doctors said he was faking.
Career investigators and Bush administration officials emphasized, in congressional testimony and interviews for this story, that national security letters are for hunting terrorists, not fishing through the private lives of the innocent.
On June 15, Pinellas County Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin released his long-awaited, thirty-nine-page autopsy report on Terri - a report that included extensive evidence from neuropathologists who had examined her brain and spinal cord.
blogs.citypages.com /ecassel   (18480 words)

  
 Overlawyered.com archive -- 2nd half October 1999
With trial lawyers now launching a high-profile attack on managed care, HMO stocks have fallen by one-half or more from this year's highs.
Incidentally, the family of Cassie Bernall, best-known of the Columbine victims and a heroine to many Christians, has declined to press lawsuits: "We just made a family decision," said father Brad Bernall.
Jones got cancer she couldn't get her HMO to cover experimental treatment, or how the Children's Hospital of San Diego sent little Steve home when they should have known he was very sick.
www.overlawyered.com /archives/99oct2.html   (6349 words)

  
 Disaster Mental Health * Trauma Information Pages
(1) normalizing feelings: reassuring victims that the strange and upsetting feelings they experience after a disaster (as following other traumatic events) are normal -- given what happened -- and (2) helping victms find effective ways of coping with their ongoing stress.
All may be useful, since all address emotional and mental health issues commonly faced by disaster victims.
The Children and War Foundation was created to gather knowledge and improve care of children affected by war or disaster.
www.trauma-pages.com /pg5.htm   (4906 words)

  
 The Democratic Party
The proposal would have expanded military health care to provide access to TRICARE to members of the Guard and Reserve and their families for a low fee.
The definition depends on the innocence of the victims and the perpetrator's intent--to affect the behavior of someone other than the target--rather than the potency of the arsenal.
The Bush policy to disregard laws against torture and due process is the Totalitarian's attempt to seize the ultimate power of Tyranny.
www.dnc.org /a/2005/06/bush_offers_def.php   (10829 words)

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