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Sun Mar-27-11 12:50 PM
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How are Americans exposed to Japanese radiation going to get proper healthcare? |
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The Japanese have a wonderful healthcare system, but what happens when our people come back? I hope Japan creates a fund and an obligation to provide for all who get sick through this.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:07 PM
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1. Unless there is an immediate illlness caused by high exposure... |
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the most likely result is Cancer in twenty years or so.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:35 PM
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My friend is 18 miles from the reactors and has been helping deliver food and supplies to people in the area without protection.
I am wondering how he will fare when he comes back home. He is teaching there but I assume he will be back one day. Or knowing what may happen to him, maybe he has to prepare for a future in Japan.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:25 PM
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2. Those not blessed in the Calvinist sense, must take it up with God. |
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:30 PM
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3. Sad. We got The Insurance Profit Protection Act instead of Single Payer |
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:32 PM
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4. You mean Americans in Japan? Americans within 100 miles of Fukushima? |
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Or are you just having a poke at all those "stupid liberals here on DU" again?
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:41 PM
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9. Yes my friend is 18 miles away from the plants. |
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I am wondering what is his future when he comes back home. Even if he doesn't get cancer I would think he needs more frequent checkups and has to be more sensitive than most to health insurance and costs.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:33 PM
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5. Totally misread this question. I hope your friend stays safe. At least they have the |
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Edited on Sun Mar-27-11 01:46 PM by Maru Kitteh
benefit, for what it's worth, of knowing their risk and can hopefully act on that risk accordingly.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:37 PM
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7. stay in japan and not come back to usa where they don't care if people die |
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:38 PM
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8. I cannot believe how many people are worried about getting sick here... |
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We aren't going to get enough radiation to make us sick here. Background radiation may get a smidge higher, but it is not going to make us sick like the people on the actual island where the disaster is happening. Please do some research on radiation. Once you have the knowledge of it, it is not very scary. We get more radiation when there is a sand storm in New Mexico than we are going to get from Japan. CALM DOWN.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:45 PM
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10. I think he means Americans in Japan. |
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It's not all that clear, but at a guess I'd say that's what he's getting at.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:51 PM
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11. Nope I am worried for my friend in Fukushima. |
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Sun Mar-27-11 03:44 PM
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13. EVERY American has to worry about getting sick |
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And radiation has nothing to do with it.
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Sun Mar-27-11 07:54 PM
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I'm more worried about our food we get from China, personally....
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:57 PM
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the Downwinders in Washington have never received care (other than what people acquire for themselves) for the health problems they endure from our government's radioactive contamination. I imagine it will be the same for these people. The nuclear industry will be in charge - look what happened to the 9/11 people.
You would not believe the questionnaires used to filter out toxic exposure claims. Such as: 1. Do you wear mascara? 2. How many times a day do you walk by your laundry room?
They can always find another culprit that indroduces doubt as to the cause of anyone's cancer or other illnesses.
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Sun Mar-27-11 03:46 PM
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14. Do I have the human right to not be nuked? |
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Sun Mar-27-11 07:57 PM
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17. If your friend is teaching here, he is certainly enrolled in the nat'l insurance. nt |
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Sun Mar-27-11 07:57 PM
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