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Healthcare Equals Control

By Gene Daily

For those of you living in anticipation of the implementation of Obamacare, you may have unexpected surprises in store. Do you want another reason for social workers (i.e. some young college graduate out to change the world before experiencing it) coming to your door? Telling you they are taking your children to a state care facility for their own good. Well, in the UK, the nation famed for its NHS National Healthcare, that is what often happens; and it is soon to come in the USA.

You see, when one National Board rules that there is a problem in protecting the children, the social services are most often tasked with solving it. Since social workers have a wealth of Government school training and usually very little real world experience (and a heavy caseload), their solution is state care.

Just read this excerpt from an article in the UK Daily Telegraph:

Professor Kevin Fenton, Designate Director of Health and Well being at Public Health England, said drastic measures were needed to tackled what he describes as an “obesogenic environment” and help the 1.3 million children who are obese in England to lose weight.

Public Health England is a new body which started work on Monday April 1 “to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and to reduce inequalities”.

Now with all the parents afraid to send “little Johnny” out to play, or too busy at work to be home to see to it that “little Johnny” isn’t spending all his time on computer games or television, what do you think will happen? After all, isn’t Obama doing his best to remake the USA into Europe?

Healthcare is important, but name me a government program or institution that has proven efficient or effective in the long term. If we can’t be trusted to solve our own problems, do you want to live in the “Nanny State” that has proven to be a failure in providing “Cradle to Grave” care and is bankrupting Europe?

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism

Medgenics Appoints Former Chairman and CEO of UBS Financial Services Joseph J. Grano, Jr. to Board o

By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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Medgenics Appoints Former Chairman and CEO of UBS Financial Services Joseph J. Grano, Jr. to Board of Directors

MISGAV, Israel & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Medgenics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MDGN and AIM: MEDU, MEDG) (the “Company” or “Medgenics”), the developer of a novel platform technology for the sustained production and delivery of therapeutic proteins in patients using their own tissue, announces the appointment of Joseph J. Grano, Jr. to the Company’s Board of Directors effective March 15, 2013. Mr. Grano’s appointment fills the vacancy resulting from Gary Brukardt‘s death in 2012.

Mr. Grano is Chairman and CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, a provider of advisory services to public and private clients on all facets of business strategy and capital markets access. Previously he was Chairman and CEO of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly UBS/PaineWebber), subsequent to the merger between UBS and PaineWebber in 2000. Prior to joining PaineWebber he held various senior management positions at Merrill Lynch including Director of National Sales.

“We are honored to welcome Joe Grano to our Board of Directors. His considerable experience and business acumen will be invaluable assets to Medgenics as we develop our proprietary Biopump technology for the sustained production and delivery of therapeutic proteins from the patients’ own dermis. His wealth of knowledge will be a welcome addition to our Board of leading business and biotechnology executives,” stated Andrew L. Pearlman, Chief Executive Officer of Medgenics.

“I am delighted to be joining the Medgenics Board of Directors at this exciting stage of its clinical development. The Biopump technology represents a potential breakthrough in the way we treat a number of chronic diseases and conditions. I am encouraged by the multitude of opportunities this versatile platform technology can address and look forward to helping Medgenics reach the next level,” commented Mr. Grano.

Mr. Grano is the former Chairman of the Board of Governors of NASD and was a member of the NASD‘s Executive Committee. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 to serve as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, a position he held until August 2005.

Mr. Grano was a captain in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets), and is a member of the City University of New York’s Business Leadership Council and a former member of the National Board of D.A.R.E. He holds honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Pepperdine University and Babson College, as well as an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree from Queens College. He served on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance