XPost: talk.politics.misc, or.politics, seattle.politics 
 XPost: ca.politics 
 From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net 
  
 hlillywh@juno.com (Hal Lillywhite) wrote: 
  
 > "Baxter"  wrote in message 
 > news:<10nj2ugni8dtb9d@corp.supernews.com>... 
 > 
 >> It's interesting that the vaunted Capitalistic Medical System (US) 
 >> produced a shortage of vaccine (and contaminated vaccine to boot), 
 >> while the Socialist Medical System (Canada) produced a surplus of 
 >> vaccine.  Think the right-wingers would learn a lesson from that? 
 >> Nah.  They're too stupid to learn. 
 > 
 > 'cept unless I'm mistaken the Canadian vaccine producers are not 
 > government owned and are allowed to make a profit.  And they face much 
 > less risk of frivolous law suits.  Their government buys from those 
 > private companies at taxpayer expense, they are not a pure communist 
 > system. 
 > 
  
 There has never been a 'pure' communist system. China may have come 
 closest. 
  
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