XPost: talk.politics.misc, or.politics, seattle.politics 
 XPost: ca.politics 
 From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net 
  
 Mark Gibson  wrote: 
  
 > In or.politics 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. 
 > 
 > Yeah, the FDA, assorted other government relgulatory agencies, and 
 > greedy trial lawyers do a lot to prevent medical care in the USA from 
 > beings as good as it could be.  It is artificially expensive and 
 > providers of medical care have to cover their asses seven ways from 
 > Sunday. 
  
 How many lives are you willing to lose to dump the FDA? 
 How many family members are you willing to watch die to dump the FDA? 
  
 Do you see the hypocrisy in restricting trial lawyers, but deregulating 
 pharmaceutical companies? 
  
 > 
 > Canada's health care system is very socialized, which is why folks 
 > from Canada who have money and an urgent need for major health care 
 > often come to the U.S.  The waiting list in Canada for many procedures 
 > that cure things that are not considered absolutely immediately life 
 > threatening can run to months or years. 
 > 
 > 
 > 
  
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