Comments on: Questions of Empire http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/questions-of-empire/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam Engel http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/questions-of-empire/#comment-3045 Adam Engel Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:46:48 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/questions-of-empire/#comment-3045 I don't have a reference, which is why I phrased it as a question, though it's obvious that we have a "National Institute of Health, which uses taxpayer money to do research on various diseases, but we have no "national" medicines or clinics. Hence the rhetorical question, "Is there a national aspirin?" I DO know that many, if not all major Universities are funded by Corporate donations -- military and pharmaceutical -- as well as tax-payer funded grants to research medicines which are "marketed" by Big Pharma. What is done with all the research provided by the NIH? Is it just tossed in the trash? I don't know. But why is there a "National" health institute, but no national benefits? Not to mention no national health care. Adam Engel I don’t have a reference, which is why I phrased it as a question, though it’s obvious that we have a “National Institute of Health, which uses taxpayer money to do research on various diseases, but we have no “national” medicines or clinics. Hence the rhetorical question, “Is there a national aspirin?” I DO know that many, if not all major Universities are funded by Corporate donations — military and pharmaceutical — as well as tax-payer funded grants to research medicines which are “marketed” by Big Pharma. What is done with all the research provided by the NIH? Is it just tossed in the trash? I don’t know. But why is there a “National” health institute, but no national benefits? Not to mention no national health care.

Adam Engel

]]> By: Josh Driscoll http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/questions-of-empire/#comment-3003 Josh Driscoll Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:50:08 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/questions-of-empire/#comment-3003 A very nice article, thanks for writing it. Would you be so kind as to provide a reference for the NIH using taxpayer money to develop drugs that will then be sold back to them? A very nice article, thanks for writing it. Would you be so kind as to provide a reference for the NIH using taxpayer money to develop drugs that will then be sold back to them?

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