Will Obama reduce USN?
Assuming Obama wishes to bring the US deficit under control, he'll likely reduce military spending. How will the USN be affected? I would think that future programs will likely be curtailed, for...
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The biggest burden to the health care industry currently has to be malpractice lawsuits and insurance.
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Prescription drug advertisement has been detrimental to the pharmaceutical industry, VIOXX for example turned out to have problems that only start exhibiting themselves after you take it a while. The...
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"Prescription drug advertisement has been detrimental to the pharmaceutical industry, VIOXX for example turned out to have problems that only start exhibiting themselves after you take it a while. The...
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Don't they already say that? The ads I see have a voiceover warning of all kinds of dire side-effects, hazards etc. Maybe its a Canadian thing? Don't think I've ever seen an advert for a prescription...
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Prescription drug advertisement has been detrimental to the pharmaceutical industry, VIOXX for example turned out to have problems that only start exhibiting themselves after you take it a while. The...
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As a currently retired physician (who never had a malpractice claim or complaint in 37 years of practice), I think one of the biggest problems with public drug advertisements is that it causes...
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expensive drugs..." Am I remembering correctly that such advertising is a relatively new phenomenon? Illegal once upon a time?
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g lof2 wrote: People who talk about overwhelming ABM system normally have not thought the problem through. True you might be able to reduce it effectiness by decoys, or live warheads for that matter,...
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Dave AAA wrote: You missed out: "declare victory over the kafirs and set up new AQ training camps." Looks like AQ is heading for Somalia now. Do you suggest that the West invade and occupy every...
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jlyons, You are completely correct. TV and print media advertising of prescription drugs only started 10-20 years ago. It may be even newer, but I don't remember. (At my age things start to run...
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Admiral Beez wrote: Looks like AQ is heading for Somalia now. Do you suggest that the West invade and occupy every broken nation Bin Laden and his ilk visit? Just the ones we're in now. The others can...
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As a Brit-Canuck myself, I think it's great that the son of a then British subject is going to be the President of the USA. I don't think that's happened since the mid-1800s when the last of the...
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Admiral Beez wrote: I wonder if Obama will make note of this connection to Britain in his travels there as President. You mean as a descendant of victims of White supremacists who seized his ancestors...
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Oh, lighten up Dave. Even Nelson Mandella has spoken fondly of his British roots in context.
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Not that the RN was actually involved in the suppression of the slave trade or anything significant like that, right?
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Moskit wrote: Not that the RN was actually involved in the suppression of the slave trade or anything significant like that, right? And this required that the UK occupy Kenya until the 1960's why?
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Dave AAA wrote: Moskit wrote: Not that the RN was actually involved in the suppression of the slave trade or anything significant like that, right? And this required that the UK occupy Kenya until the...
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StevoJH wrote: IIRC they were there into the 1960's because they were trying to fight off a communist insurgency before they pulled out. Too bad they allowed one of the commies to escape and conquer...
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StevoJH wrote: IIRC they were there into the 1960's because they were trying to fight off a communist insurgency before they pulled out. You may be thinking of Malaya. The Kenyan insurgency, which...
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