<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="msg-8046603462938443508"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8046603462938443508WordSection1"><font size="4"> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</font></div></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8046603462938443508"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8046603462938443508WordSection1"><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_-8046603462938443508gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></i></span><span class="m_-8046603462938443508m-7837096810027653299gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">But if we defund medical research</span></i></span><span class="m_-8046603462938443508gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> [...]</span></span></blockquote></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>OH FOR DARWIN'S SAKE! You keep repeating that silly straw man argument like a parrot without even attempting to answer my fundamental questions, like why the hell are American consumers and American consumers ALONE responsible for repaying the entire research and development budget for every drug in existence <u>regardless of what country the research or the development or the manufacturing occurred in?</u></b></font></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">We aren’t.  We have the option to not buy the drugs. </span></span></font></i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Just like I said before, yes we always have the option of dying. And Just like I said before, you're behaving like a parrot; so I will do the same and repeat the question I asked in my previous post: does anybody around here, other than <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">S</span>pike himself, think that his answer to my question is convincing, logical, or even coherent?</b></font><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8046603462938443508"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8046603462938443508WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Our system is set up to compel medical research investment to come here<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> [...]</span></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If you were right (and of course you are <span class="gmail_default" style="">NOT</span>)<span class="gmail_default" style=""> then compelling medical research to come to the US would be an <u>extremely stupid thing to do</u> because the end result of it would be American consumers would be poorer, would die younger and do so in greater pain. Fuck that, do medical research someplace else! </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font face="georgia, serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Ours is the second worst system for supporting medical research, better only than everything else.  </span></span></font></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Obviously that is dead wrong<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span> Denmark<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> has a <span class="gmail_default" style=""><u>VASTLY</u> </span>superior system<span class="gmail_default" style="">, as does every technological nation on the planet. </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></div><div><br></div></div></div>