We don’t
want to be Royals………: ) WWII was the British-Canadian
ticket to national health care (NHC). England, especially London had been so
horribly bombed to rubble, the parliament realized the most powerful way to
keep citizens who survived protected was immediate creation of ‘medical
care for all’. Huge security blanket for the populace. Your gov’t
considers access to health care a right just as critical to public welfare as
clean water….which is brilliant strategy long term. Big pharma has
to negotiate drug prices there. We USAers live w the healthcare is a
privilege model. And big pharma spends unfathomable lobby $ getting
congressional members to keep dismantling consumer protections. 2004 law passed
that prohibited the gov’t from negotiating for lower drug prices. Then
began the surge of laws protecting giants like Medtronic (pace makers, etc)
from being sued. The MO seems to be relentless consumer protection laws and
regulations under attack, while pushing for massive privatization for-profit
human service institutional takeovers. I
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Subject: Re: [SCIART] Work for
free is not confined to art
Two of the things
confuse Canadians…why Americans don’t want the government to help
protect them against the effects of disease and illness (but seem to have no
problem with obscene amounts to protect them from the vastly less dangerous and
widespread threat of terrorists…a minute fraction of one percent of what
illness does in terms of hurting Americans, killing them, and damaging them
economically), and the other is why our own increasingly fanatical leader seems
to want to emulate that.
There are quite a
few other things…but, if I mention them I’ll get accused of (a)
being anti-American (I’m not, anything but, in fact) and (b) someone will
complain that I’m way too far off topic. One does not
want collusion, but I can’t imagine how telling people how much you earn
for a given job equals anything like powerful companies getting together to fix
prices, or how telling people what they can say constitutes free
speech…up here who would care?.
Are not artists
usually among the freest and the most enterprising of free enterprisers?
Barry
Barry
Kent MacKay
Bird
Artist, Illustrator
Studio:
(905)-472-9731
http://www.barrykentmackay.ca
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Subject: Re: [SCIART] Work for
free is not confined to art
The wiles and
wherefores of law are often confounding. Back in the 80's hospitals and
community pharmacies started banding together in groups so they could receive
lower (bulk) prices from wholesalers. Nope. Price fixing. It
almost took an act of Congress (this was when Congress was still able to act)
to allow this process to continue.
Freedom of
speech? I didn't know you lived in
:)b
On Sun, May 4,
2014 at 7:18 PM, Catherine Wilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Is it collusion if it is posted publicly? (Which is
what I'm thinking of doing now.) Can it be price fixing if its many prices from
many sources that are all personal data points? I want to look deeper into
this.
Um and what about freedom of speech?
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