From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Government can throw a much larger amount a money, and resources at > any given problem, and should, that one of it's functions. And this new > drug just proves my point. Corporations are too greedy to be in charge > of finding cures and remedies to peoples problems. In fact it's not > really in pharmaceutical companies best interest for people to get > completely better, because they can get them fixed on taking x drug > (which really only treats symptoms) forever, making them huge amounts of > money. If they got better then they would stop taking the expensive > drugs, which means less cash income for multi-million/billionaire CEO's. > Is it in the interest of a democratic government to things like that?
I don't know about you, but I would much, much rather that pharmecutical companies choose what diseases to research cures for than to leave those choices in the hands of politicians. With your apparant mistrust of the government, I would think you would feel the same way. Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
