Casting off the chains: www.pirateparty.org.uk

[Rajiv]

Re: Casting off the chains: www.pirateparty.org.uk

Good. Most people in the UK like their NHS.

But the propaganda in the US is that the NHS doesn't work, and that it should be replaced by private insurance

NHS 'misrepresented' in US campaign

A free market campaign group opposed to US President Barack Obama's health care reforms misrepresented the views of NHS patients in a bid to discredit the UK system, it has been claimed.

In an interview with The Times, two women - featured by the Conservatives for Patients' Rights group (CPR) in a US TV commercial - said that contrary to the advert, they strongly supported state-funded healthcare.

It comes amid a growing backlash in the UK over the portrayal of the NHS by conservatives in America, with Gordon and Sarah Brown joining an online campaign to defend the British system from attack.

As part of an increasingly bitter debate over the merits of health care reform, the CPR aired a series of commercials featuring interviews with patients in both the UK and Canada.

In the advert focusing on the NHS, it was claimed that people were left on lengthy waiting lists and deprived of life-saving treatments.

[Munger]

Re: Casting off the chains: www.pirateparty.org.uk

Loads. And it's impossible to quantify. Much of it is also international. If I publish research carried out collaboratively in the UK with a Chinese researcher and publish it in an American journal, how do you quantify that?

Also, in the U.S., if you accept Federal money you have to tell the patent office that. In which case there are many restrictions, if you are given a patent at all. If you don't list the U.S. Govt. as sponsoring or partially sponsoring your research, they will take away your patent when they find out. And if you try to use your patent, the opposing counsel WILL find out. One of the first things to check.

[*T*]

Re: Casting off the chains: www.pirateparty.org.uk

I oppose democracy.

What's your preference then?