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Yes and no. India plays hardball on new drugs Inside India: India’s Fight Against Big Pharma Patents Is a Just War There are a few other very poor counties that are somewhat in between. But all advanced countries have treaties recognizing patents for very similar lengths of time. India sort of gets a walk because of its poverty.

You, your family and your friends. Vigilance. You control what you can.

Agree. But trump actually has been inside about a dozen churches in the last four years. Ministers keep inviting him to give divisive speeches in which the response is great applause. Like all his speeches most of what he say is barefaced lies. Yet god still doesn't strike him down on the spot. More proof there is no god.

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. Yet "ABC News could not find a single criminal case filed in federal or state court where an act of violence or threat was made in the name of President Barack Obama or President George W. Bush. " quote from story. See now?

Its election season, expect more promises. Evidently there is a new vaccine that President trump is going to launch. "Operation Hyper-Speed". Its a vaccine to prevent aging in white men only. If he's re-elected trump promises it free to old white men.

Every politician from mayor, to governor, to congressman, to senator, to whoever has assistants. They research and prepare reports for the elected officials. Then there is: THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICING REDUCTION ACT OF 2019 A PRICE TOO HIGH Cost, Supply, and Security Threats to Affordable Prescription Drugs Hundreds or reports prepared by government departments. What lobbyists bring to the equation is cash, i.e. political donations. There are research jobs involved that are high paying. But thats a bit of a red herring. Yes the US subsidizes the rest of the world somewhat.But that arises because the the US has multiple buyers, a lack of transparency and other countries are single payer. So they can be tougher negotiators. The difference between a single state buyer Sweden and 300-400 US insurance companies, state and wholesalers. Most likely accounts for most of that difference. The true story of America’s sky-high prescription drug prices. Good story on simplified basics. The world thanks America

Its no wonder that trump loves the Saudis so much. Like Putin killing opponents in other countries using hit teams, trump dreams of such opportunities to deal with his "traitors". Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been accused of sending a hit-squad to Canada in order to kill a former Saudi intelligence official. The failed plan to kill Saad al-Jabri was soon after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, court documents filed in the US allege. Mr Jabri, a veteran of the government of Saudi Arabia, fled into exile three years ago. He has been under private security protection in Toronto since. The alleged plot failed after Canadian border agents became suspicious of the hit-squad as they attempted to enter the country at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, court documents say. Family of exiled top Saudi officer Saad al-Jabri 'targeted' Mr Jabri, 61, was for years the key go-between for Britain's MI6 and other Western spy agencies in Saudi Arabia.

You're right that many Canadians travel to US hospitals for treatment, most of it specialized. Some in order to "jump the queue" so to speak. IMO NZ, Australia are the countries with the best bang for the buck are the countries to be emulated. Canada needs improvement. NZ for example buys drugs for far less than Canada. They manage to negotiate prices at far less than almost any other advanced country. The reasons for that is if those countries spent more they should get a far superior general health outcome.Countries like India and those in Africa get larger discounts from drug makers because of economic disadvantages. This isn't the best example and doesn't include NZ I'll admit a lack of humor in some respects. Issues surrounding corruption and people in positions of power taking advantage of others get my blood boiling fast. I have a very low threshold for that and I tend to go overboard sometimes on those issues.

Australia and NZ seem to get the best bang for the buck. The US is by far the most expensive. There is variability in the rankings but the top twenty- thirty countries all have good outcomes for care. Depending on the parameters used to judge satisfaction. Rankings of world's best healthcare systems United Kingdom Switzerland Sweden Australia Germany The Netherlands New Zealand Norway France Canada U.S.A You start by suggesting that you want defined concise examples. Yet you conclude by offering a personal observation in which you can't state for certain if the ambulances contain US patients or Canadian patients in the ambulances. Rather than personal experiences there are scientific studies that rely upon empirical examples in the tens of thousands. In addition there have been thousands of studies on the subject. World Health Organization ranking of health systems in 2000 From The Commonwealth Fund:

I have posted dozens of studies and surveys in these forums showing: - Lower costs with national health care systems. Per person and overall.U.S. health system costs four times more to run than Canada’s single-payer system The GOP and industry lobbyists are responsible for Americans who died of covid because of no insurance. From Politico The Army Built to Fight ‘Medicare for All’ The top health industry lobbies have joined forces to take down socialized medicine — or anything that looks like it. Will they succeed? "Kahn made a phone call — and then, over the next few weeks, another and another. Those calls would lead to a series of secretive meetings in downtown D.C. where officials from every part of the health care industry — from insurance companies to hospital giants, drugmakers and even, for a time, doctors — would forge an alliance united to ensure that Sanders’ promises never became reality. Out of their pact grew an influence operation known today as the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, a multimillion-dollar cooperative designed to overwhelm not just the swelling Medicare for All movement, but every single Democratic proposal that would significantly expand the government's role in health care."

U.S. Intelligence Says Republicans Are Working With Russia to Reelect Trump Just another US election with the same old actors working to benefit Satan.Every day the reaper comes calling on the ICU wards for the casualties of christian betrayal. While god keeps track of the sins of the US christian right. "In January 2016, Donald J. Trump gave a campaign speech at a small Christian college in Sioux Center, Iowa. Standing in front of a three-story pipe organ, he said, “I have the most loyal people.” “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” at United Reformed Church..“I will tell you, Christianity is under tremendous siege, whether we want to talk about it or we don’t want to talk about it,” Mr. Trump said. Christians make up the overwhelming majority of the country, he said. And then he slowed slightly to stress each next word: “And yet we don’t exert the power that we should have.” They prayed: “With our God we shall be valiant, he will vanquish all our foes.” The pastor spoke to a sea of white parishioners: “God’s standard requires absolute, total, perfect, obedience.” So to summarize the link between trump and his white christian evangelical base.trump brags about killing his enemies. The white evangelical pastors talk about christian power, vanquishing their foes and even though there is a constitution protecting minorities. Thats not relevant.

I thought that was obvious from the chorus when the emperor went on and on about " it was the most beautiful cognitive test you've ever seen"

Canada builds relatively porous walls. Immigrants Flock To Canada, While U.S. Declines "New data show the number of people immigrating to Canada increased by 26% between 2015 and 2019, and is projected to rise higher as the country seeks to overcome the aging of its workforce – a serious problem in all Western nations. In the United States, legal immigration fell by 7% between FY 2016 and FY 2018, and is expected to decline even more sharply due to Trump administration policies." Canada has a points system for immigrants, more cash, more education and the doors swing open. Last year 60% were economic immigrants, i.e. educated and /or over $250k cash. Immigration could help Canada top U.S. in economic growth this year 'The Census Bureau reported Dec. 30 that net international migration in the U.S. plummeted for a third straight year in 2019 to a decade low of 595,000. Along with declining birthrates, that helped slow annual population growth to the weakest in a century, according to an analysis by Brookings Institution demographer William Frey. Last year, Canada added a net 437,000 people from abroad, despite being only a tenth the size of the U.S., helping to drive its fastest population increase in 30 years, even with declines in fertility.... More restrictive immigration policies from the Trump administration have also curbed interest from foreign students and workers, benefiting its neighbor to the north." The US, well the hypocrites of the GOP have killed any attempts at reforms. Oh well the OP has his theory flapping in the wind. Like trump's attempts to conceal his lies.As the above shows his racist wall became one to drive students and wealthy immigrants to the north.

Well if the Canadian gov. was serious they could check Walmart parking lots first thing in the morning. There must be a mass migration to Alaska now because lots of RV's with US plates. They could stop selling fishing licenses to Americans because they all seem to be fishing their way to Alaska. Its all propaganda, I think the locals figure they are just escaping trump till the election.

Its all good the medicare is free, the tests are free and the wall is still in progress.

I recall 2-3 posts where you've been right and as such I agreed with you. You should immediately apologize to everyone here.

In case anyone has forgot the hypocrisy of evangelicals and their inherent racism. 'A tweet by Liberty University’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., has sparked an angry protest in the evangelical college’s community and a rare apology from Mr. Falwell." "Blackface and Ku Klux Klan imagery tweeted by Mr. Falwell, who tolerates little dissent at the evangelical university he leads, has spurred staff resignations, demands for his firing by influential alumni, an incipient boycott and a raucous protest in the university’s home of Lynchburg, Va., over the past week. So heated was the response that on Monday, Mr. Falwell, the university’s president and a vocal ally of President Trump, did something rare for him in the heat of a controversy: He apologized for a May 27 tweet in which he mocked the social-distancing orders of Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam. In that tweet was the image of a mask on which was emblazoned the photo from Mr. Northam’s medical school yearbook of a man in black face and another in Ku Klux Klan robes, one of whom might be Mr. Northam."

The deal with Satan hasn't turned out so well for evangelical christians. Satan of course was an angel who rebelled against god and was expelled from heaven.It was Satan who temped Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. Just as trump temped evangelicals with the promise of corrupt laws.Just as Satan was cast from heaven for his betrayal, evangelicals will be cast when they come knocking for their betrayal of Christianity. A feature article from The Atlantic.The Cost of the Evangelical Betrayal. "White, conservative Christians who set aside the tenets of their faith to support Donald Trump are now left with little to show for it. "The closest thing social conservatives and evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump had to a conversation stopper, when pressed about their support for a president who is so manifestly corrupt, cruel, mendacious, and psychologically unwell, was a simple phrase: “But Gorsuch.” Donald Trump may be a flawed character, they argued, but at least he appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. And then came Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia. That is the case decided in mid-June in which the majority opinion, written by Justice Gorsuch, protected gay and transgender individuals from workplace discrimination, handing the LGBTQ movement a historic victory. Garrett Epps: What ‘because of sex’ really means “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law,” Gorsuch wrote for the majority in the 6–3 ruling. It was a crushing blow for the religious right, and it must have dawned on more than a few of Trump’s evangelical supporters that if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, the outcome of the case would have been the same; the only difference is that the margin probably would have been 7–2." The Bostock case was not the only major legal setback for social conservatives and evangelical Christians. By a 5–4 margin, the Court—in June Medical Services v. Russo—delivered a significant defeat to the pro-life movement, striking down as unconstitutional a Louisiana law that could have left the state with only a single abortion clinic. This dashed the hopes of those who were counting on Trump’s appointees to lead the Court in overturning Roe v. Wade. (Both of Trump’s Supreme Court choices were in the minority.)" Every day the trump death clock ticks up and the deal with Satan is refreshed in the mind of God.

Well like his fellow evangelical brethren Falwell has a "christian" past: "Falwell began stoking controversy shortly after he took over as president of Liberty University, one of the world’s largest conservative Christian universities, urging students at a 2015 convocation to carry concealed weapons so they could “end those Muslims before they walked in,” After offering his early endorsement of Trump in the 2016 election, the prominent evangelical figure was criticized by students for silencing anti-Trump dissent and creating a “culture of fear,” accusations that were expanded upon in a 2019 Politico exposé, citing two dozen Liberty staff, which alleged Falwell would discuss his sex life at work in graphic detail and show off photos of his wife “in provocative and sexual poses.” As controversy swirled around Falwell’s business dealings involving a young pool attendant in Florida, photos emerged of the Liberty president and members of his family partying at a Miami Beach nightclub in 2014; Falwell dismissed the allegations, which don’t line up with the school’s standards for students barring co-ed dancing and drinking, saying the images were photo-shopped (though the photographer published more the next day). Falwell’s support of Trump, which was seen as integral in winning support from the Christian right in the 2016 election, including allegations that Trump fixer Michael Cohen helped Falwell get rid of racy “personal” photos in someone else’s possession in 2015, as well as reports that Cohen hired a Liberty employee to manipulate polls in favor of Trump ahead of the election, with sources saying Falwell’s son accompanied the employee on a New York trip to collect payment." and ‘Someone’s Gotta Tell the Freakin’ Truth’: Jerry Falwell’s Aides Break Their Silence More than two dozen current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world.

Evidently Falwell Jr. is going to spend some time in the corner upon the recommendation of the school’s board of trustees. Shocking because normally blatant lies work so well for this class of miscreants. Imagine a religious pillar having some fun with an employee. Still its surprising that he and his playmate couldn't afford new pants given "cash investments and endowments of nearly $2 billion" Yes that how much these agents of god have kept for themselves. I'm sure Falwell will be on the phone soon to his yacht broker. With more time off from the work of god a upgrade is surely necessary.

New polls show tight races for Graham, McConnell. States that have historically been as safe as Fort Knox. IMO Clinton should have been impeached for what he did. The GOP will stab trump so hard with a election loss that it sill surprise you. Currently trump is at a loss to decide the direction of his campaign. The GOP doesn't provide input Jared and his close band of apparatchiks do. They just pulled their ad buys because they were missing the mark. Guns, personal safety of soccer moms in the suburbs, the rule of law, etc. Are all non-issues and trump is lost. Eventually the GOP will rebuild and even trump's taint will fade. From NYT editorial today "Jonathan V. Last thinks President Trump is here forever. Last, an editor at The Bulwark, a conservative site that’s been hostile to Trump, argues that if Trump loses in November he’ll claim he was cheated out of the election. He’ll force other Republicans to back up his claim. He’ll get a TV show, hold rallies, be coy about running again in 2024. He’ll still be the center of everything Republican. Ambitious Republicans will have to lash themselves to the husk of the dying czar if they want to have any future in the party. The whole party will go Trump-crazed and brain-dead for another four years. I salute Last for coming up with a post-2020 scenario even more pessimistic than my own! My guess is that if Trump gets crushed in the election, millions of Republicans will decide they never liked that loser and jerk anyway. He’ll get relegated to whatever bargain basement they are using to hold Sarah Palin. But something will remain: Trumpism." I actually agree with it almost without exception. If anyone is not a NYT subscriber its well worth the effort to read the entire editorial by getting around the paywall.

Gee Wayne and his buddies must have had some good times.

You just convinced me..... No the US will come out of this stronger than ever. A shithole country has leader after leader like trump, like Putin, like Xi. Its dark now, thousands dying every day, institutions and the law thrown out the door. But a democracy with a free press can strengthen the institutions with poor foundations. Learn from its mistakes. Rebuild better.

I thought it all depended on a couple Larue AR-15's, ten cases of 5.56 and a couple barrels of dried beans?

Well thats his shtick. I'd say banana republic under trump is more accurate. Canada enjoys a huge geographic advantage next to the US. Its akin to the UK next to the EU. Unprotected borders on all sides and large free, well mostly free access to a large southern market. The aforementioned wood, electricity, metals are all in surplus for Canada and a ready market is nice. Its somewhat somewhat common, perhaps 10-20 percent of the Canadian population to look down on Americans. Love of guns, "freedom" the false economy of "competitive medical care", etc. Can all justify a snobbish attitude for some. But the differences are more in their minds than in practice. One new president and the US bounces back. Like the UK, Canadian opinions of the US to do the right thing have fallen by 50% since trump. In Skydekker's defense its easy to see the events surrounding trump as painting the entire country. But a minute or two face to face with a typical moderate American. Changes all of that. One year after the one two punch of vaccines and improved treatments for covid. With a new WH administration. The US will be back on the right track. making America great for every American.