>
> It occurred to me while thinking about this thread that though
> Clinton (not
> Gore btw), made a statement about patenting genes, the more
> conservative party
> is generally slower to accept new technology and _also_ has a ludite,
> right-wing religious element to deal with that could prove to be
> much more of
> an impediment to the future of genomics than any misstatement by the
> president. Doesn't this worry you a bit?
>
> Doug
The right wing religious element screams a lot, but lets face it they have
very little power when they would be in opposition to the pharma/biotech
companies. In a sense there are negatives for the industry no matter who
gets elected... You are right in stating that as a concern for the
Republicans, on the Democrats side if we went to a system such as Canada or
Australia corporate R&D would suffer greatly, not to mention specialist
related patient care. You think an HMO is bad! Try waiting three months to
see a specialist for a non-life threatening condition! It is again the
question of who is less objectionable.
JeffF
