Re: Canadians, a couple of questions about health care

From: Kurt Ullman (kurtullman_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:34:55 GMT

In article <%tgAd.17773$nV.537601@news20.bellglobal.com>, Mike
Wilcox <spamspamspam@montypython.org> wrote:

>Crap, Canada extended patent drug protection far beyond even what the
>pharma's asked for.
     As long as they market them for the price the government says
they should. Although in fairness, I don't think the Canadian
government has actually ever used that particular stick. Probably
because they haven't set prices so low that the difference couldn't
be made up here in the States.
   

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	Diplomacy- The art of telling someone to go to Hell in such a manner that they 
actually look forward to the trip.

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