'Bakers contract cancer from asbestos in old ovens': tv programme

There have been 38 cases of bakers contracting cancer from the asbestos contained in old ovens since 2000, according to the institute of asbestos victims IAS.

The figure, to be included on Tuesday evening in tv programme Zembla, follows Zembla's claims in last week's programme that the Bakkersland bakery group had problems with asbestos in three of its factories over the past two years and had to recall a consignment of bread.

Eugene Scholten, chief executive of Bakkersland, told RTL news last week there had never been direct contact between bread and the asbestos used as insulation in the company's ovens.
However, the IAS now says 38 bakers have told them they contracted cancer from asbestos. Zembla says this is as a result of working with old ovens in which asbestos is used as insulation.
Gert van der Laan, clinical specialist at the Netherlands centre for industrial sickness AMC, tells Tuesday's Zembla that the figure shows working with old ovens is dangerous. 'The bakers who contacted the IAS since 2000 have been working with asbestos for decades,' he tells the programme.


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The workers' compensation medical treatment delivery system is problematic as it as delays and denials and epidemic in the program. Looking for a solution, hope beams bright in the implementation of a single-payer universal program. Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com

Even as Americans struggle with the changes required by health care reform, an international survey released last week by the Commonwealth Fund, a research organization, shows why change is so necessary. The report found that by virtually all measures of cost, access to care and ease of dealing with insurance problems, Americans fared poorly compared with people in other advanced countries. The survey covered 20,000 adults in the United States and 10 other industrial nations — Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Britain, all of which put in place universal or near-universal health coverage decades ago. The United States spends far more than any of these countries on a per capita basis and as a percent of the national economy. For that, it gets meager results. Some 37 percent of American adults went without recommended care, did not see a doctor when sick or failed to fill prescriptions in the past year because of costs, compared with 4 percent in Britain and 6 percent in Sweden. Nearly a quarter of American adults could not pay medical bills or had serious problems paying them compared with less than 13 percent in France and 7 percent or less in five other countries. Even Americans who were insured for the entire year were more likely than adults abroad to forgo care because of costs, an indication of how skimpy some insurance policies are. When Americans got sick, they had to wait longer than people in...

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