I am literally at a loss for words.
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I am literally at a loss for words.
What it is you think any of those things have to do with each other or with "public health initiatives for national funding" is beyond me. Is this some kind of aphasia?Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Come on GGT you know better than to try to trick Fuzzy into making an unnecessarily personal/private comment :o see above for clarification re. definitions too.
Yeah, I shouldn't have gotten into a semantics argument (between aggie and fuzzy) about what's a disease and whether pharmaceuticals treat or cure. I also shouldn't have made a personal comment to you, Fuzzy, and I'm sorry for that. Also sorry for appealing to emotions, in an attempt to get back to what *rent-seeking in modern pharmaceutical markets* means to begin with. Mea Culpa.
The truth is....there IS an emotional component to any debate about medicine and healthcare, because it impacts human lives. There's been a political component over history, too....where government funds for R & D have been attached to the "moral values" of taxpayers. And in the US it's common to be emotional about the morality of public policy and tax dollars.