Gezondheidszorg en privacy, VS en Iraq, rotswoningen in Iran en tol in GB

Gezondheidszorg en privacy
Patients private medical files will be shared among health professionals under a Rudd Government plan for a contentious healthcare card.

From the middle of next year, the Medicare card will provide doctors, dentists, pharmacists and paramedics with an encyclopedia-like file on patients' medical histories, medications and treatments.

"It would be a card, most likely with a chip that would store your information on it, which you would then provide to health professionals and give them access to it when you wanted them to see it."
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25601319-5003426,00.html


Rotswoningen in Iran
In the north east of Iran at the foot of Mount Sahand in Kandovan, the villagers live in cave homes carved out from the volcanic rockThe age of some houses is more than 700 years. Very impressive:
http://www.persianhub.org/interesting-pictures/173605-troglodyte-village-iran-700-years-old.html


Irak en VS-contractarbeiders
US contractors arrested in IraqFive US contractors have been arrested by Iraqi police in connection with the murder of a colleague, officials have said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/20096712476954965.html

AP NewsBreak reports: "Major problems found in Iraq spending"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_wartime_contracting_reporthttp://apnews.excite.com/article/20090607/D98M19282.html


Duur tolonderzoek
Bridge toll inquiry costs £50,000De Britten lanceren een onderzoek of de tol bij een brug verhoogd moet worden. Dit onderzoek zelf kostte zoveel, dat ze de tol wel moesten verhogen.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/8087990.stm