>Subject: Re: Jan Drew
>From: Happy Oyster happy.oyster@ariplex.com
>Date: 11/3/2004 1:48 PM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <4ekio0tok7hasl1h52up5pkdt38v200d32@4ax.com>
>
>On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:20:57 GMT, Steven Fawks
><tuthjockey@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm not out to ban amalgam.  It is gradually becoming less
>>common as the primary choice for 'fillings' anyway.
>>
>>I haven't used amalgam for almost 20 years and it would not
>>bother me in the least if it were no longer an option.  That
>>said, I do not lie to patients and tell them that I can 'cure'
>>mysterious illnesses (that are probably all in their head) by
>>removing servicable amalgams from their teeth.
>>
>>Preying upon the weak (and weak minded) is horrible.
>
>Right you are. In Germany the problem is getting worse again because
>the state is bancrupt. To save money, amalgam is STILL established as
>filling material. As long as there is no cheap alternative, amalgam
>will be in use. They even allowed (via EU commission) the use of the
>before banned (because known to be poisonous) copper-amalgam.
>
>The politicians have one thing more in mind than the righteous
>thinking citizen : If the politicians would admit that amalgam is
>dangerous, the victims of amalgam were able to go to court and sue the
>health insurances, thus causing the immediate bancrupty of the whole
>health care system.
>
>So politicians just wait until another filling material is introduced

>>Preying upon the weak (and weak minded) is horrible.