Bush gives the Left a huge christmas gift

[MrFun]

Imran, you're choosing the wrong things that we would rather you remember.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Imran, you're choosing the wrong things that we would rather you remember.

Democrat brainwashing 'treatments' aren't working so well anymore .

[MrFun]

DAMN

[Dis]

so what's the gist of this bill? Am I going to have more money coming out of my paycheck or what? If there is going to be more money out of my paycheck, I will start my plan to overthrow the U.S. goverment.

[BustaMike]

Here's what I see going on...

Dubya - we need to cut taxes, again, and again... ok. Now we need to spend a crapload more than we already were. Nope that's still not enough. Let's invade Iraq, that should cost upwards of $100 billion per year. Hmm, we should spend more. A $400 billion dollar healthcare bill, great! Deficit spending is working... wheeee, la la la, look the money comes from nowhere. Screw our children, lets borrow more now.

[Ramo]

Bush just signed the Medicare reform bill. Will the Left be happy? Bush has just created a 400 billion dollar new government entitlement program. The Left should be really happy, they got a great Christmas gift this year!

It's poor compensation for the much larger entitlement program for powerful biotech corporations called intellectual property.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Ramo


It's poor compensation for the much larger entitlement program for powerful biotech corporations called intellectual property.

Ramo, now I am sure you know that patents are in the US Constitution? Patents are not some Republican giveaway to the drug companies.

[Ned]

Stui, assume what you say is true. How much more would it cost to give seniors the adequate coverage you want?

[Ramo]

Sure they are. And in the Constitution, patents are enumerated as a privilege that the state offers businesses, not a right.

[Ramo]

What I had in mind would cost much less. Contract out the IP to businesses who are willing to produce low cost prescription drugs.

[Ned]

The power Congress has is to grant patents to Inventors, not businesses. You seem to imply that Congress should not grant patents at all - or at least not to inventors of new medicines.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Ramo
What I had in mind would cost much less. Contract out the IP to businesses who are willing to produce low cost prescription drugs.

Compulsory licensing is essentially a denial of exclusive rights and is not a power that Congress has.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ned
400 billion over the next 10 years

Don't you spend that on your military every year?

[Sava]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Don't you spend that on your military every year?

more than that I bet...

[Ramo]

The power Congress has is to grant patents to Inventors, not businesses.

What's the difference?

[quote]You seem to imply that Congress should not grant patents at all - or at least not to inventors of new medicines.

I didn't say that.

Compulsory licensing is essentially a denial of exclusive rights and is not a power that Congress has.

From Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution:

"The Congress shall have power [...] To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; [...]"