Oh and there are plenty of things not covered by US insurance either. So you will be factoring all those extra costs for the US figures as well, right?
And your evidence is where? The person I responded to was citing the OECD figures from this wikipedia article which clearly shows that the US has a per capita cost of $8233 for health costs compared to the $4445 of Canada since as you can see that's the list where Canada is ranked 7th. Even by the WHO's numbers the US per capita cost is $3600 higher.
See, because some things aren't covered at all.
Then provide some actual evidence. Your word isn't evidence.
In what way am I fear mongering? By pointing out that there isn't some anti-vitamin conspiracy since all the big pharma companies sell billions in such supplements? I can only assume I'm missing the whoosh moment.
Oh and to throw in, Pfizer even has a web page extolling the virtues of taking vitamins. Funny since you would have us believe they are against them, no?
For people who hate vitamin supplements it's amazing how many brands just those 3 companies alone sell, no? And that's not including all the other nutritional supplements they sell which would add at least another 10 or 12 items. So this notion that big pharma hates vitamins, etc. is pure bunk.
And yet they make and sell billions of dollars in vitamins every year. That's a funny way to show that you're against something. Every major big Pharma company has multiple brands of vitamins.
It's even funnier to hear how this is supposedly some sort of big Pharma conspiracy. Big Pharma companies sell billions in vitamin supplements every year. So in fact big Pharma would be against someone saying that multivitamins don't provide any benefit.
Except these aren't the only papers to show this. But, hey, keep lining the pockets of Bayer, Unilever, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and other big pharma companies who sell the vast majority of the vitamin supplements out there.
You keep arguing with me but you also point out that everyone claiming Iraq had WMDs was lying. So, if everyone making the claim of something's existence is lying the intelligent person comes to only one conclusion which is that they didn't exist. Only someone using tortured logic or had some agenda could come to any other conclusion.
Unfortunately "teh terrists!" make people forget about how most of the NSA's existence has seen them abuse their power and overstep their authority. This is simply them going back to the pre-Church Committee times as was warned about by Walter Mondale who was on the commission. He stated how the it would simply take single act and a willing present to bring back the rampant abuses.
How does the fact that the US government lied tell us whether Saddam had or did not have WMD?
Simple: various intelligence agencies warned that Chalabi was lying and the Bush Administration propagated the lie. That's how we know that the lies meant Saddam didn't have WMDs. Or did you not hear the memo that he fabricated his supposed evidence?
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And here has 2011 per capita figures.
Canada: $5,630
United States: 8,608
US is still $3000 higher. I won't hold my breath on you having figures that ever show the opposite.
Oh and there are plenty of things not covered by US insurance either. So you will be factoring all those extra costs for the US figures as well, right?
Not really, in some cases it's even more.
And your evidence is where? The person I responded to was citing the OECD figures from this wikipedia article which clearly shows that the US has a per capita cost of $8233 for health costs compared to the $4445 of Canada since as you can see that's the list where Canada is ranked 7th. Even by the WHO's numbers the US per capita cost is $3600 higher.
See, because some things aren't covered at all.
Then provide some actual evidence. Your word isn't evidence.
In what way am I fear mongering? By pointing out that there isn't some anti-vitamin conspiracy since all the big pharma companies sell billions in such supplements? I can only assume I'm missing the whoosh moment.
The socialists in Canada pay almost $4500 per capita for healthcare
So nearly half of the US.
or more than 11% of GDP.
So only 60% of that of the US.
Because of the waste inherent in socialist systems,
So paying less per capita and less as a percentage of GDP is a sign of inherent waste?
we should not be surprised that healthcare costs in Canada are 7th highest on the planet,
And the US's is the highest.
Yeah and the link you provided was ever so convincing. Oh wait...
As the saying goes "I got mine so fuck you".
This law was practically written by the insurance companies. In what way would they dislike a law they wrote?
A derivative of a public domain work can be copyrighted. Unless retroactively copyrighted by Congress, the original work is not.
I thought the bigger joke of that article was:
Clearly, the future is in netbooks.
Yeah, that panned out as expected.
And to add to my previous post. Let's just enumerate a list of some of the vitamin brands sold by a couple of the big name pharma companies.
Bayer:
One A Day
Supradyn
Flintstones Vitamins
Pluravit
Elevit
Redoxin
Pfizer:
Centrum
Emergen-CStresstabs
Clusivol
Trihemic
Oh and to throw in, Pfizer even has a web page extolling the virtues of taking vitamins. Funny since you would have us believe they are against them, no?
GlaxoSmithKline:
Cetebe
Rutinoscorbin
Scott's Emulsion
For people who hate vitamin supplements it's amazing how many brands just those 3 companies alone sell, no? And that's not including all the other nutritional supplements they sell which would add at least another 10 or 12 items. So this notion that big pharma hates vitamins, etc. is pure bunk.
And yet they make and sell billions of dollars in vitamins every year. That's a funny way to show that you're against something. Every major big Pharma company has multiple brands of vitamins.
That's an interesting non sequitur. What crackerjack box did you get your legal degree from?
Nope, big pharma is happy to sell you both. Centrum, One A Day, Flintstones, etc. are all big pharma brands.
It's even funnier to hear how this is supposedly some sort of big Pharma conspiracy. Big Pharma companies sell billions in vitamin supplements every year. So in fact big Pharma would be against someone saying that multivitamins don't provide any benefit.
Why would big pharma be against multivitamins? One. A Day, Centrum, Flintstones , etc brands are all made by Big Pharma.
As opposed to taking Centrum, One a day, etc. that are made by Big pharma companies? Yeah, you're definitely sticking it to them!
Except these aren't the only papers to show this. But, hey, keep lining the pockets of Bayer, Unilever, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and other big pharma companies who sell the vast majority of the vitamin supplements out there.
History is cyclical as they say.
You keep arguing with me but you also point out that everyone claiming Iraq had WMDs was lying. So, if everyone making the claim of something's existence is lying the intelligent person comes to only one conclusion which is that they didn't exist. Only someone using tortured logic or had some agenda could come to any other conclusion.
That was meant to be president not present.
Unfortunately "teh terrists!" make people forget about how most of the NSA's existence has seen them abuse their power and overstep their authority. This is simply them going back to the pre-Church Committee times as was warned about by Walter Mondale who was on the commission. He stated how the it would simply take single act and a willing present to bring back the rampant abuses.
Yeah, but even the CIA was saying that the mobile port-a-potty labs were bullshit long before the Bush Administration used it as a justification.
He posts the stories anonymously now and he uses sockpuppets.
How does the fact that the US government lied tell us whether Saddam had or did not have WMD?
Simple: various intelligence agencies warned that Chalabi was lying and the Bush Administration propagated the lie. That's how we know that the lies meant Saddam didn't have WMDs. Or did you not hear the memo that he fabricated his supposed evidence?