> Larry wrote: > Per-capita health care costs for US and Canada: > US spends 3 times as much as Canada > http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news03/health_costs.html
So America spends WAY more, and the World benefits from that research because our inventions benefit them. That's what I thought. > The vast majority of real innovation has come from the NIH and NIH funded > research centers. Like what? Where did MRIs come from? Ultrasound? State-of-art X-ray? Scopic surgery? Advanced surgery techniques? Transplants? This is all funded by NIH you're saying? Nobody makes any money on these patents, then? All of this intellectual property is simply licensed from the government? Boy, you better tell medical equipment manufacturers that because I don't think they know. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288795 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
