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Pharmaceutical Dollar Rationing by Results

You wrote this blow-hard: "My father is an american orthopedic surgeon. He tells me his Canadian colleagues at one hospital are only allowed to perform two hip replacements a month for a whole department of orthopedics."

Now your telling me you haven't talked to your father in years and you're telling me I write like a fool??

And you still didn't answer my question? Which Canadian hospital? Big guy.

Maybe you should talk to your father once in while and clear your confused head. Bow- out.


On Aug 14 02:39 AM Student of History wrote:

> "Do you have health care? Oh, thats right your father is a doctor!
> of course you have health care. Wake-up!"
>
> I haven't spoken to my father in years. You write like a fool.<br/>
>
> I have health insurance for two reasons. Number one, I work my ass
> off and I have a very frugal lifestyle. Number two. I've made sacrifices
> in terms of my wages in order to obtain and keep my half decent private
> health insurance. I beileve this is what you socialists call "job
> lock". My response to that is this; total compensation=salary+be...
> not salary alone. You get what you pay for... I'd much rather have
> to deal with "job lock" instead of rationed government healthcare.
>
>
> Perhaps you should consider moving to Canada?

Where's the Outrage at the Banks?

The U.S. Govenment "Bailout." Barrons 3/16/09 page 14:
"A number of big banks, including GS and DB, were paid roughly $50B from the U.S. bailout of AIG last fall, the WSJ reported. The news came as lawmakers sought names of firms that received money from AIG."

San Francisco Chronicle 3/4/09 pageC2:
Est. cost of "the government's [U.S. taxpayers] package of bank bailouts, loans and economic stimulus plans" "$3 TRILLION." Google financial bailout and the estimates are now, 10/09, up to $17 Trillion+. (S&L crisis 1986-95: $256B)

Did they get billions without giving anything in exchange?

By definition: a Bailout does not require "anything in exchange."
"Bailout- of pertaining to, or consisting of means for relieving an emergency situation." Random House Dictionary. The "thing in exchange" is the so called relief of "the emergency situation." (In fact "the bailout" is the greatest grab of U.S. Taxpayer money in the history of the U.S.)

The "bailout" was an "Emergency rescue plan," proposed by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson [originally for $700B, which has become about $3T+ in 2009) in 2008. The governments [U.S. taxpayer] initiative was to pump liquidity into the markets and to encourage consumer and business lending [to John Q. Public]. But this is not what has happened.

Read: "Getting off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis" by John B. Taylor, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution (Conservation Think Tank at Stanford University), who was a Treasury undersecretary in Bush's first administration.

Read: "The Creature from Jekyll Island- A Second Look at the Federal Reserve" by G. Edward Griffin, to learn about the Federal Reserve and its history, a must read to understand this. The banks own, literally, the Fed. And why is the Fed refusing to reveal where there $2 Trillion went (to the Banks!)? (Bloomberg is suing them under the FOIA to get this information).

Final question: Why does not the U.S. Treasury issue it's own money, (instead of the Federal Reserve, which is actually owned by the banks themselves) and what would the effect of that be on the banks and the public of the U.S.?

Pharmaceutical Dollar Rationing by Results

Which Canadian hospital are you referring too and in what city?

If you are making statements like this you better back them up with the facts.

This is the classic response of US doctors (and hospitals and drug companies), screaming of the horrors of the Canadian health care system. It is BS!

The Canadian Universal health care system works and has been independently rated as one of the best health care systems in the world (there was a PBS special on health care last year, 2008).

I ask you to choose between in the US 40+ million without health care (and tens of millions more under-insured) and the Canadian universal health care for all, with some wait times. I did say there are waits for elective procedures. The Canadian health care system is not perfect but it does provide health care for everyone!

Ask the 40+ million in US who do not have health care which system they would they choose? I would venture to say they would choose the Canadian type system of health care for all in the US, with the possibility of some wait times.

I know one family with two children who had to fill for bankruptcy because their mother had cancer and no health care (she died anyway), and I just heard of a woman with two kids (by C-section about $20K in US) who is pregnant again with no health care. What is she going to do?

Do you have health care? Oh, thats right your father is a doctor! of course you have health care. Wake-up!


On Jul 02 02:39 AM Student of History wrote:

> Ask your father how long he would have to wait if he needed a hip
> replacement. My father is an american orthopedic surgeon. He tells
> me his Canadian colleagues at one hospital are only allowed to perform
> two hip replacements a month for a whole department of orthopedics.
> Quite a few Canadians (an understatement of course) come to the US
> for medical treatment. You don't see too many Americans going to
> Canada for medical treatment (buying prescription drugs does not
> count)..

Pharmaceutical Dollar Rationing by Results

Comments by several posters bash the Canadian health care system. I think these criticisms are misplaced.

My father is Canadian and lives in Vancouver B.C., was born there and has lived most of his life there (I am US citizen born in Hawaii, living in the Bay Area, US). His experience with the Canadian health care system has been very positive (Canadians do pay for this with high taxes). The Canadian system is built on the government establishing the prices for the heath care (thus the doctors, hospitals and drug companies are fighting to have this type of system in the US- they will not make as much money).
To my fathers knowledge there is no "ration health by limiting access to the system," as one poster stated.

Every Canadian citizen has a health care card and has access to the Canadian health care system and cost are very reasonable. In the US between 25 to 30% of health care costs are due to "administration costs." To my knowledge these costs in Canada are about 50% less.

From my fathers experience, the Canadian health care system provides universal health care to all (in the US about 40 million people do not have health care). Sometimes there are waiting times for elective procedures, but generally the care level is very good and my father says he is very happy with his health care in Canada.

Teva Shows Cubist That Saving Lives Isn't Good Enough

<<How so? Teva contends that either Cubist’s patents were not valid in the first place, or Teva can produce a generic without infringing on those patents. Of course, Cubist intends to challenge Teva through litigation, which automatically puts Teva’s plans on hold for 30 months, according to FDA rules.>>
1. 2/09 plus 30 months= 08/11, Teva's plans put on hold till 08/11;
2. Has any one heard of a company winning with Teva's arguments?
3. I can not wait to see the results of this lawsuit, IMO Teva's going down.

Apex Silver Mines Might Be a Promising Short Play Now

12/5/2008 sil @$0.67.

Hedge Fund Tracking: Timothy Barakett's Atticus Capital, Q3 2008

Good find and report. To review Atticus Capital's stock positions as of 9/30/08 report date, go to nasdaq.com; ( you need to search a stock Atticus owes, e.g. EMIS or SYI); then Quotes, Charts, Research; then Institutional Holdings pull down menu; then Institutional Holders separate pull down menu. You will see Atticus Capital as a holder of the stock (in this case EMIS). Click on Atticus Capital and current holdings of report date (here 9/30/08) will fill. This is not complicated and after a few times it will seem easy.
Note from Atticus Capital's 9/30/08 holdings report; Increased Positions: 1; Decreased Positions: 55; Sold Out Positions: 40. Brilliant Q3-2008 moves. JMHO ( I have no connection with Atticus)

A Nuclear Growth Opportunity with Denison Mines

Michael: when you wrote this article on 8/26 DNN was about $5.80 a share. Today, 10/8, DNN is at about $1.70. Do you have any comments at to why DNN has lost about 2/3's of it's value in six weeks?
Thank you for your article. I have been watching DNN, and others, for an entry point.

Week in Review: Drama Galore

marxbites: <<Bush & Co ???; as criminal as this admin is - it is NOT responsible for what was built by Democrats & done by the FED.
Clinton, Kerry, Gore, McBama ALL work for the same masters; the CFR/NWO/Fed'l Reserve/Int'l Banking cabal.>>

You know, I was waiting for "someone" to blame this mess on Clinton. LOL. Where have you been the last eight years, in a cave?
And you don't think Bush & Co. are not CFR/NWO? Get a grip. Bush is the NWO. I do agree with the statements re: the FED and banking cabal. To put the blame of this mess on the Democrats is absurd.

Why Bail Out AIG's Bondholders?

Buffet looked into buying AIG and walked away. We all know Buffet would have loved to have bought AIG, right up his alley.
Ergo, there must be some very toxic waste at AIG.
Why was the Fed (excuse me, the U.S. taxpayer) the only entity who would loan AIG the $85B!!
IMO, AIG will follow FNM and FRE to penny land. Sad but true.

My prayers go out to all AIG employees, except executive management, and LEH. Ten of thousands losing their jobs, and perhaps their savings.

Icahn Should Replace Microsoft's Board, Not Yahoo's

They don't call MSFT "The Dark Side" for nothing.
IMHO MSFT was been a disaster for personal computing.
What they could not buy, they crushed, all for the worst.
Now, current management is too big and too fat, believing their own B.S., but then again, if you are a billionaire you can get away with it!?
Thank goodness for Apple.
End of my rant.