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Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:46:22 in Politics
“Yes, I meant that things started going rapidly downhill with Reagan. The airline industry is shot to hell and it all started with Reagan.”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:42:21 in Politics
“The same drugs are 67 percent cheaper in Canada.
"The high cost of drugs in the United States has caused many Americans to look towards Canada in order to obtain cheaper drugs. While the percentage of savings per individual drug varies, on average, prescription drugs in the United States cost sixty-seven percent more than they do in Canada. 1 The reason for such a sharp variance in prices is the Canadian government's price caps and strict regulation of pharmaceutical companies. 2 There is no comparable government regulation of pharmaceutical companies in the United States. 3 Hence, to access reasonably affordable drugs, many American consumers are turning to Canada and other foreign sources."
https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=11+Sw.+J.L.+%26+Trade+Am.+323&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=a89275259f7d0cdd778c40438c53005a”
"The high cost of drugs in the United States has caused many Americans to look towards Canada in order to obtain cheaper drugs. While the percentage of savings per individual drug varies, on average, prescription drugs in the United States cost sixty-seven percent more than they do in Canada. 1 The reason for such a sharp variance in prices is the Canadian government's price caps and strict regulation of pharmaceutical companies. 2 There is no comparable government regulation of pharmaceutical companies in the United States. 3 Hence, to access reasonably affordable drugs, many American consumers are turning to Canada and other foreign sources."
https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=11+Sw.+J.L.+%26+Trade+Am.+323&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=a89275259f7d0cdd778c40438c53005a”
marxmarv replied on Dec 06, 2009 at 01:00:05
“No, drugs are 40% cheaper in Canada. 100%/167% = .6 = 100%-40%”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:35:44 in Politics
“Bravo, bobwalters.”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:34:34 in Politics
“Hear, hear!”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:33:22 in Politics
“Jonas Salk's bio in Wikipedia says: "His sole focus had been to develop a safe and effective vaccine as rapidly as possible, with no interest in personal profit. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:27:36 in Politics
“Well said.
Well, actually, we do make profits for corporations and free market thugs.”
Well, actually, we do make profits for corporations and free market thugs.”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:26:30 in Politics
“Cimbri, we've had almost no positive government interference since St. Ronnie, and look where it's gotten us. Glass-Steagall. The Fed and the FCC and the FAA being run by political appointees who wouldn't let career employees perform the oversight they were supposed to be doing.”
Mikeeee replied on Dec 06, 2009 at 00:37:42
“You mean since Carter don't you? raygun undid all the "green" things to make the US energy independent etc etc etc. One financial disaster after another for the middle class.”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:20:33 in Politics
“In the US, we've chosen to live in a more or less permanent state of war, because it's good money for corporations. Corporations and free market thugs value profits over the common good.”
UncleJimbo replied on Dec 06, 2009 at 00:23:27
“X2.....Fanned!”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:14:26 in Politics
“When US pharmaceutical companies sell their products overseas, they're much cheaper because no one over there will pay the prices they charge in the US. I read about a US tourist needing migraine medication in Tibet. When he asked the pharmacist what the cost was, the pharmacist said $8 for a pill; in the US, the same pill cost the tourist $85.”
Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor
Commented Dec 06, 2009 at 00:11:14 in Politics
“I thought that a couple of years ago Canada said that US citizens could no longer buy prescriptions in Canada. Canada didn't want to subsidize further drug purchases for US citizens because the US government should be paying to subsidize them for their own citizens.”
isee61 replied on Dec 06, 2009 at 00:27:14
“Canada does not subsidize US citizen drugs, they will sell the drugs to US citizens same as Canadians.
Canada negotiated with US pharma, but US citizens can't.”
Canada negotiated with US pharma, but US citizens can't.”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 21:59:01 in Green
“Hope you've got a REALLY BIG lawn to make up for the loss of things like, oh, the Amazon rainforest and the natural environment that is lost everytime a strip mine is built.
"Between May 2000 and August 2005, Brazil lost more than 132,000 square kilometers of forest—an area larger than Greece—and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed."
rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html.html”
"Between May 2000 and August 2005, Brazil lost more than 132,000 square kilometers of forest—an area larger than Greece—and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed."
rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html.html”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 21:56:56 in Green
“Better get planting. You've got a heap of catching up to do.
"Between May 2000 and August 2005, Brazil lost more than 132,000 square kilometers of forest—an area larger than Greece—and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed."
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html”
"Between May 2000 and August 2005, Brazil lost more than 132,000 square kilometers of forest—an area larger than Greece—and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed."
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 21:24:51 in Green
“"a lot of the man made global warming proponents would probably be upset"
Nope,if the excess CO2 could be avoided, they'd be ecstatically happy. That money then could be moved to other positive uses.”
Nope,if the excess CO2 could be avoided, they'd be ecstatically happy. That money then could be moved to other positive uses.”
Bartel5 replied on Dec 05, 2009 at 21:51:17
“grow plants”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 21:22:49 in Green
“Law and order. You wouldn't by chance be using code words for INFANTICIDE, GENOCIDE, HOMICIDE?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Everytime I asked people to reproduce responsibly, you started hysterically yakking about me wanting INFANTICIDE, GENOCIDE, HOMICIDE. Actually, I just want people to plan in advance on having the number of children they can raise responsibly.
You're all for individual responsibility, right?”
Sorry, couldn't resist. Everytime I asked people to reproduce responsibly, you started hysterically yakking about me wanting INFANTICIDE, GENOCIDE, HOMICIDE. Actually, I just want people to plan in advance on having the number of children they can raise responsibly.
You're all for individual responsibility, right?”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 21:19:49 in Green
“You must know of the study that shows that when poor countries begin to educate their women, the women begin to have smaller families and the country's GDP rises.”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 21:13:25 in Green
“Hear, hear.”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 21:12:46 in Green
“We can control the amount of water we drink. We may not alway be able to control the quality of the air the world's population has to breathe.
Do we all use oxygen tanks when the air is too polluted with excess CO2 because we didn't try to controll carbon emissions?”
Do we all use oxygen tanks when the air is too polluted with excess CO2 because we didn't try to controll carbon emissions?”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 21:10:26 in Green
“N27 was being facetious. He agrees with you.
I'm a feminist. I've always been appalled that girl children are less valued in countries like China and India.
The disaster in China is a direct result of the culture considering boy children "little princes" and little girls worthless.
I'm not talking about governments dictating family planning. I'm advocating INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, which will be helped by wider education, in having only the number of children you can feed, educate, house, and care for and that the environment can handle.
Please stay on topic.”
I'm a feminist. I've always been appalled that girl children are less valued in countries like China and India.
The disaster in China is a direct result of the culture considering boy children "little princes" and little girls worthless.
I'm not talking about governments dictating family planning. I'm advocating INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, which will be helped by wider education, in having only the number of children you can feed, educate, house, and care for and that the environment can handle.
Please stay on topic.”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 20:59:11 in Green
“Don't you feel a little silly saying carbon dioxide in excess isn't a pollutant?
From the Free Dictionary (for Rush Limbaugh, who doesn't understand that too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing):
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) narcosis, a condition of confusion, tremors, convulsions, and possible coma that may occur if blood levels of carbon dioxide increase to 70 mm Hg or higher. Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can have CO2 narcosis without these symptoms because they develop a tolerance to elevated CO2. When ventilation is sufficient to maintain a normal oxygen partial pressure in the arteries, the carbon dioxide partial pressure is generally near 40 mm Hg. See also carbon dioxide poisoning."
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/carbon+dioxide+narcosis”
From the Free Dictionary (for Rush Limbaugh, who doesn't understand that too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing):
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) narcosis, a condition of confusion, tremors, convulsions, and possible coma that may occur if blood levels of carbon dioxide increase to 70 mm Hg or higher. Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can have CO2 narcosis without these symptoms because they develop a tolerance to elevated CO2. When ventilation is sufficient to maintain a normal oxygen partial pressure in the arteries, the carbon dioxide partial pressure is generally near 40 mm Hg. See also carbon dioxide poisoning."
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/carbon+dioxide+narcosis”
NL207 replied on Dec 05, 2009 at 21:16:01
“too much oxygen is also harmful.
So tell us, how much CO2 must be in the air that your scenario is a concern, and how much of that is already in the atmosphere?”
So tell us, how much CO2 must be in the air that your scenario is a concern, and how much of that is already in the atmosphere?”
Bartel5 replied on Dec 05, 2009 at 21:13:46
“Nope. We would be far better off focusing on particulate, heavy metal and noxious gases pollution. But the push by the left is to create an ongoing unsolvable crisis which demands big government. They learned from lead in gas (solved) , acid rain (solved), that it is a PROBLEM if the crisis subsides.”
VikingQuest replied on Dec 05, 2009 at 21:00:53
“Everything in excess is bad.
People can die from too much water.”
People can die from too much water.”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 20:57:55 in Green
“From the Free Dictionary (for Rush Limbaugh, who doesn't understand that too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing):
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) narcosis, a condition of confusion, tremors, convulsions, and possible coma that may occur if blood levels of carbon dioxide increase to 70 mm Hg or higher. Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can have CO2 narcosis without these symptoms because they develop a tolerance to elevated CO2. When ventilation is sufficient to maintain a normal oxygen partial pressure in the arteries, the carbon dioxide partial pressure is generally near 40 mm Hg. See also carbon dioxide poisoning."
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/carbon+dioxide+narcosis”
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) narcosis, a condition of confusion, tremors, convulsions, and possible coma that may occur if blood levels of carbon dioxide increase to 70 mm Hg or higher. Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can have CO2 narcosis without these symptoms because they develop a tolerance to elevated CO2. When ventilation is sufficient to maintain a normal oxygen partial pressure in the arteries, the carbon dioxide partial pressure is generally near 40 mm Hg. See also carbon dioxide poisoning."
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/carbon+dioxide+narcosis”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 20:55:39 in Green
“From the Free Dictionary (for Rush Limbaugh, who doesn't understand that too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing):
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) narcosis, a condition of confusion, tremors, convulsions, and possible coma that may occur if blood levels of carbon dioxide increase to 70 mm Hg or higher. Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can have CO2 narcosis without these symptoms because they develop a tolerance to elevated CO2. When ventilation is sufficient to maintain a normal oxygen partial pressure in the arteries, the carbon dioxide partial pressure is generally near 40 mm Hg. See also carbon dioxide poisoning."
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/carbon+dioxide+narcosis”
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) narcosis, a condition of confusion, tremors, convulsions, and possible coma that may occur if blood levels of carbon dioxide increase to 70 mm Hg or higher. Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can have CO2 narcosis without these symptoms because they develop a tolerance to elevated CO2. When ventilation is sufficient to maintain a normal oxygen partial pressure in the arteries, the carbon dioxide partial pressure is generally near 40 mm Hg. See also carbon dioxide poisoning."
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/carbon+dioxide+narcosis”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 20:48:29 in Green
“nThenwhat:
Apparently our audience doesn't have particularly good reading comprehension scores.”
Apparently our audience doesn't have particularly good reading comprehension scores.”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 20:44:42 in Green
“Nobody is talking about genocide or infanticide. Infanticide and genocide are not population control. They're murder. Please stay on topic.
Family planning, as in planning on having only the children you and your environment can afford, is responsible reproduction.”
Family planning, as in planning on having only the children you and your environment can afford, is responsible reproduction.”
Bartel5 replied on Dec 05, 2009 at 20:51:45
“Someone mentioned using china as a model. The reality is that 'cides' happen when govt puts controls on freedoms. They have a shortage of girls in china. Do you suggest that is the result of careful govt planning?”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 20:44:12 in Green
“Nobody is talking about or genocide or infanticide. Infanticide and genocide are not population control. They're murder. Please stay on topic.
Family planning, as in planning on having only the children you and your environment can afford, is responsible reproduction.”
Family planning, as in planning on having only the children you and your environment can afford, is responsible reproduction.”
Study: Slowdown In Warming Last Year Not Permanent
Commented Dec 05, 2009 at 20:15:08 in Green
“Those despots of the last century were responsible for genocide, which is murder of a living human being. Contraception and family planning are not genocide. (And to allay, your next argument, abortion is NOT contraception; abortion could be reduced if more people used contraception responsibly.)
Family planning, usually with the use of contraception, is just reproducing responsibly.
You have a problem with having children responsibly?”
Family planning, usually with the use of contraception, is just reproducing responsibly.
You have a problem with having children responsibly?”
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