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11 Responses to “Do you as an American want medical technology to keep advancing?”

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   Jimmbbo, on December 26th, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said:

   Yep, but they will slow down under 0bamacare. A detail lost on the 0bamaland socialist utopia supporters.
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   yablocksthetruth, on December 26th, 2009 at 4:26 pm Said:

   If the American people understood economics and history we wouldn’t have a Democrat Party and wouldn’t be in this mess.
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   Brian, on December 26th, 2009 at 4:40 pm Said:

   Yes I do and any system that socializes medicine will only inhibit progress..
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   scott b, on December 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pm Said:

   Yes. That would be nice after 8 years of a religious nutjob holding medical advancement back.
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   <3Lilit♥Seeth<3, on December 26th, 2009 at 5:39 pm Said:

   Yes, and I also want to get rid of the FDA and strip government power away from the AMA and other pieces of the Medical Industrial complex.

   What we have right now in the health care industry is not a free market, it is heavily regulated corporatism.

   WE NEED A FREE MARKET!
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   Noodle Taco, on December 26th, 2009 at 5:50 pm Said:

   you ever heard of the WTO TRIPS agreement = don’t produce cheap drugs
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   avail_skillz, on December 26th, 2009 at 6:30 pm Said:

   Why do you people keep having this fantasy that profit motives will be taken away by the poor having access to health insurance??

   Any system where profit motives are created by poor people suffering, as you seem to imagine, is a cruel anti-American system.
   Profit motives are not created by depriving people of essential services.
   Matter of fact, when you sell more of any good or service, profit tends to increase.
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   brown9500.v10, on December 26th, 2009 at 7:19 pm Said:

   Yes the insurance companies are doing a great job financing medical research.

   Duh-uh.
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   hiztreebuff, on December 26th, 2009 at 7:36 pm Said:

   Improving our health care system won’t curtail scientific advancements in the medical field.
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    Patches O'Houlihan, on December 26th, 2009 at 8:06 pm Said:

    The leftists will go out there and find that one doctor who works 20 hour days simply out of altruism. And then insist that this one guy who goes against the tide of the human spirit is the norm.
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    Bamford1000, on December 26th, 2009 at 8:30 pm Said:

    Britain has what you would probably deem so called socialist health care and has a history of good quality medical research coupled with a large pharma and bio-techs industry.

    In terms of medical research, Britain has been responsible for a good deal of the major breakthroughs from Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming at St Mary’s Hospital in London and developed by Florey and his team at the Dunn Pathology Labs in Oxford, through to Crick and Watson and their discovery of DNA at Cambridge University.

    Even the MRI and CT (CAT) scanners Americans seem so proud of have a good deal of British input with British Scientist Sir Peter Mansfield awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for his work on MRI and Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mansfield

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Hounsfield

    Hounsfield name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans. The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HU), running from air at -1000 HU, through water at 0 HU, and up to bone at +1000 HU.

    Whilst London’s Royal Marsden Hospital and its academic partner, The Institute of Cancer Research in London have discovered or developed more new anti-cancer drugs than the National Cancer Institute in the USA.

    http://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/RMH/privatecare/privatecare/worldleadingexpertise.htm

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7168321.stm

    Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, said: “Years of research are behind the dramatic progress being made in the fight against Britain’s common cancers. Survival rates have doubled in the last thirty years and the work of Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of that progress.

    “Our research is behind 19 of the top 20 drugs used to treat cancer patients worldwide today. Our work has underpinned the huge progress we are now seeing in preventing more deaths from lung cancer. And our progress over decades has helped to develop radiotherapy as a major form of treatment for half of all cancer patients.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5785681/Deaths-from-common-cancers-at-40-year-low.html

    At the same time British Pharmaceutical Companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca are at the forefront of developing new drugs and treatments.
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