Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: GMCarter (fiar_at_verizon.net)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:49:21 GMT

On 29 Aug 2004 15:59:43 -0700, sbharris@ix.netcom.com (Steve Harris
sbharris@ROMAN9.netcom.com) wrote:

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>COMMENT:
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>The problem is you have to explain why both the French and the
>Japanese spend at least 10% more per capita on drugs than US citizens
>do. Obviously you manage that without advertising. How curious!
>
>http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/act/2000/action56.html

Ah, forgive me Steve, but posting material from this site is not
convincing in the least. This is a right-wing thing tank that is
undoubtedly FUNDED by pharma to oppose price controls. They have been
using these kinds of dis- and misinformation efforts for SO long, I
simply do not trust the way they spin the data. Indeed, I suspect that
this "per capita" approach is based on some number juggling that would
make Arthur Andersen proud.

See, e.g.,
http://www.moldea.com/rightwing.html
http://www.alecwatch.org/cpabrochure.pdf.pdf

One of the reasons I think this group can be discredited is on the
basis of their perverse views on global warming. If you've read the
recent editions of both Science and the National Geographic, I think
it is now and has been long apparent that this phenomenon exists and
is causing horrific disruptions. What these morons don't seem to get
is that this will screw THEIR chances to make profit if the world is
too fucked up.

So I don't believe any of the stuff I read on that site.

                George M. Carter

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