"DSK" wrote

In case you hadn't noticed, rats & sheep are different from people.

Not much at that level, but we're not proposing cloning just taking the
first few steps thereof, which have been done before as witness Dolly. The
same equipment and skills are applicable.

In any event, you're crying for the moon and getting mad at Daddy for
not fetching it for you.

No, I am angry at GW Bush for preventing science from fetching it ....

It's not entirely his fault because 1- he is a puppet and 2- it is still
years away from even experimental protocols on human patients.

1. Agreed. 2. years away beats hell out of 'never' and that's what the
fundementalists who pull his strings demand.

None to diabetes. Quite a bit more than that to ....

Good on you, blighter!


That's a laugh. I know a lot of MDs who make less than your 125K$/yr.

That' odd. My brother, a mere Chiropractor, nets over $500,000/yr working a
40 hour week. Do these MDs practise in the USA or ?

In any event, if there is no profit .......

I never even suggested NO profit, but when companies offer South Africa AIDS
medicines for $6/day and make a profit (else as you point out they wouldn't
do it) then it is obscene to charge US patients $100s/day to stay alive.

Nor do I suggest government controls. Just the opposite! I want the
existing controls that facilitate this kind of thing abolished. Then let a
truly free market establish price and profit. Y'know, the American way (c:


Meanwhile, you are making a number of unwise assumptions. Why should
drugs be cheap, other than that you want it that way? Some even demand
free drugs and health care... why should it be free any more than
gasoline or electricity or video games should be free?

Nor did I say drugs should be free or even cheap. I said that prices should
be set by the FREE MARKET unencumbered by government sponsored monopoly.
Drug companies are already competing over the efficacy of Vaigra vs its
clones. If they'd also compete on price AND if one didn't have to pay an MD
for permision to buy it I'd be satisfied - in that case. Apply that across
the board and I'd be happy.

Back to the subject - is Bush implementing this? NO! He's fighting it tooth
and nail! Kerry? Just a tad.

But politics is not the answer to everything.

No, not the answer it is the problem - when politics is interfering with
free markets, as it is in the US medical system, then politicians are the
problem.