Its been said that in the 90's and even into 2013, before Obamacare really started taking hold, that American medical care was the best in world. Ya there were issues, but they were microcosmic in comparison to those we are currently facing in regard to outlandish co-pays, inflated cost for surgeries, hospital stays and pharmaceuticals and limited choice of quality providers and practitioners. Socialized medicine has without a doubt dramatically changed the quality of care, we as Americans have access to domestically, but how much worse is it going to get? How is socialized medicine working for communist countries who have had their healthcare systems in place for decades? Well in communist China, their country is aiming that by 2017 all patients with serious illnesses will receive treatment within their own county, in a concerted bid to overhaul a seriously over-burdened healthcare system where wide gaps between urban and rural care often mean people travel hundreds of miles to seek help in cities. Is this what we have to look forward to? In other news, it seems a battle is brewing in Washington as the capital city prepares to do centralized government does best, over regulate. This time the target is the personal fitness industry, as D.C plans to adopt the nations first rules on trainers through their city panel, the Board of Physical Therapy. In hour 2 RSB will be joined by Paul Barattiero, of Echo Water, to delve into a bombshell decision from NASA, as they break a trend which has been used for years, regarding iodine as the International Space Station's water cleansing agent of choice. Instead, they have finally elected to use what the Russian's realized to utilize for water purification purposes from the beginning, silver. Its no shock to RSB that the Russian's water purification process has always been much more efficient than that of the U.S. On the front of the fight against breast cancer, RSB will break down a follow up story to our previous coverage of the lunacy of preemptive mastectomies, based on genetic testing results, as a new study finds that screening all women for gene mutations that increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer is too costly to be feasible, and would literally need to be reduced by 90% to be cost effective. http://www.robertscottbell.com/?p=32250