While PDF's are more or less mandated they are not entirely uneditable either. Particularly black bar redacted documents. It's been known for a while that there's a way to scavenge text from behind a black bar in Acrobat. Too bad these guys don't use the White House email system which seemingly crushes everything into oblivion?

In the meantime try using the remove hidden metadata tool from MS. It's free and even a monkey could use it.

Fo real.

If Selig, the owner who's not really a commissioner decides to pull a whopper out of his ass and unilaterally declare that all HR's 753 and above don't count in the records that MLB actually owns. See they own the stats so if they really wanted to soccermom it they could pick and choose which stats they're willing to acknowledge.

What makes you think any sort of medical treatment is more than hit or miss. Seems silly or self serving to single out mental health when the AMA admits that 250,000 people are probably killed through ineptness or malpractice.

This is why caregivers can't check out when the dr checks in. You have look at what they say with a gimlet eye and not only ask a lot of question but be willing to refuse certain treatments. After all, they call it informed consent, not 'we'll tell you everything about what we're doing and then just go ahead and do it' do they?

It's a political football, clean your own house first, ladies. Then come over the hill to blame us for something. Thanks.

Saloniks will flock to anyone who says anything about ending the war no matter what else they say, do or intend. I give you a brief glimpse of the early days of Giuliani campaign as the mayor of NYC. See the problem was, we needed a fascist. The other problem was, we got on. I think you would find President Ron Paul to be a harsh ideological Libertarian task master, letting you smoke all the weed you want, as you freeze and starve to death on the sidewalk in the winter. It's more or less the same kind of corporatist benign neglect that marked the final decades of Belgian rule over the Congo.

What you describe sounds so utterly awful so willfully agressively bad that the gravimetric effects of the black hole of banality may squirt us into an alternate universe. I'll be in my bunker watching DVD's.

Seriously you need to reach out to the tongue pierced Cosplay vote.

In the UK if you are above a certain age and you are arbitrarily assigned a given health risk based on a wide array of factors you are excluded from procedures like kidney transplants and may even face a fight for access to dialysis, e.g. free or low cost access.

Moreover there is a big cultural bleed over from national health care into areas like criminalizing certain diets, draconian laws on smoking and alcohol and the general insanity of the nanny state 'just because we pay for it'. So on balance be prepared to accept the good with the bad.

Last but not least, Americans consume an awful lot of elective care that would not be covered in the nationalized system. Like almost all plastic surgery (even reconstructive work), allergists, and so on.

The fact is, that the hot button issues like how many more 10's of billions of dollars can we toss at breast cancer, are already covered outside of the private system we have now. That wouldn't change.

BTW zealots. Is Medicare part B a stunning success? It's certainly cost effective but fraud is rampant.

Psst: it's the closest thing to nationalized care we have in this country.

See, and this might cause some of your heads to explode, but national care isn't in and of itself isn't a cure all. Overall compensation is a big part of the problem. Even in a single payer system if you don't have firm control of WHAT gets delivered by WHO you haven't solved the problem.

But please please continue to namecall me, that will fix everything.

While poor access to healthcare is one huge problem, an equally large problem is the generally poor level of care once one has access. I wonder if this would have any bearing on that? For example even the AMA estimates more than 200,000 people/year are killed by malpractive, inept care, bad record keeping and so on. For example the news is rife with endless stories of misdiagnosis.

Would a national system change this? Yes? No? Neutral? Does it matter?

ED drugs? Check.

Nexium? Check.

Whatever that drug for bloating is? Check.

Accutane? Check.

Astelin? Check.

and so on.

Yet Americans demand the 'right' to consume and to be compensated for them. What next? Therapeutic haircuts?

One would think that top tier community relations/health care executives especially those with a minority pedigree would be able to pretty much dial up their next job at will. I'm sorry if that sounds cynical be we all know the incestuous relationship among medical Boards of Directors, community relations, fund raising, politically connected law firms, and such.

BTW, 'organizing white tie dinners' is actually a part of jobs like that. Community relations has to have strong ties to the coporate, foundation and socialite communities too.

I guarantee that half of all Viagra sales are to head off, so to speak, lawyers banging down someone's door to cart off half their stuff in the name of constructive abandonment. In fact and in practice lack of sexual relations because of ED is assumed by the courts to be a case of adultery they just haven't discovered yet. So is there fear and desperation? Uh yeah - as soon as we exterminate all the marital lawyers though it will be a bright shining new day.