[lit-ideas] Re: [THEORIA] A Possibly Very Good Idea
- From: jimkandjulieb@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:20:08 -0400
Thanks -- I keep forgetting about your user-name-reply issue.
Julie Krueger
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Sent: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [THEORIA] A Possibly Very Good Idea
Julie meant this for the list. Like Morris Berman says, there is no left in
this country. Social traditions are just not part of our fabric. Even our
mythology is of the lone cowboy, the individual. Basically, we like money and
people with money and that's pretty much all we like. That's where we put our
values, such as they are.
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Subject: Re: [THEORIA] A Possibly Very Good Idea
Missouri's current idiot Govorner, Matt Blount, is running political adds that
praise him for reducing the State's debt from 4 million to 1 million (or
something like that). What they don't mention is that state funding no longer
covers blind canes, walkers, commodes, many chemos, etc. So he's reduced the
deficit by removing health care funding.
Yea for Blount.
Julie Krueger
disgusted
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Subject: Re: [THEORIA] A Possibly Very Good Idea
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <THEORIA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/19/2006 2:34:16 PM
> Subject: [THEORIA] A Possibly Very Good Idea
>
>
> These ships would be sent all over the world to treat
> diseases in less developed nations. The benefits would be:
>
> (1) good PR for the US,
The U.S. isn't interested in PR.
> (2) increased knowledge of tropical diseases that our
> immigration policies will eventually bring to the US,
The U.S. isn't interested in increased knowledge of tropical diseases that
are already here.
> (3) economies of scale in drug research for those diseases,
> and importantly,
Pharma doesn't do research and doesn't care about research for diseases.
They want to market blockbuster drugs in different packages to the widest
audience possible, which is to say, cholesterol lowering drugs, ED drugs,
etc. Don't need fancy research facilities for that.
> (4) the ability to respond to a bioterror attack in the
> United States.
>
The U.S. doesn't care about a bioterror attack. They reduced funding for
the CDC.
> At present, the CDC has admitted that it has no
> infrastructure to deal with bio- or radiological terrorism.
Exactly. The U.S. doesn't care about it except to the extent that it
distracts attention from policies and mismanagement.
> Having a fleet of hospital ships would allow the US to
> respond quickly to such attacks in US coastal cities.
>
So would properly managing, or not beginning, this war in Iraq lessen the
vulnerability to attack. It didn't happen.
> If there were a terrorist attack in Philadelphia, for
> example, our hospital ships could be quickly called upon to
> serve the area, thereby preventing the collapse of the
> healthcare system.
>
It's a nice fantasy.
> The obvious drawback is the cost, but there seem to be many
> pluses to this idea. Feedback? Tweaks?
>
The biggest drawback is that the U.S. doesn't care about things like this.
Realistically, it can never happen in the U.S. the way things stand today.
We may as well talk about what the world would have been like if Gore was
elected, or if Kennedy wasn't shot.
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