> > Larry wrote: > > Per-capita health care costs for US and Canada: > > US spends 3 times as much as Canada > > http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news03/health_costs.html > > So America spends WAY more, and the World benefits from that research > because our inventions benefit them. That's what I thought.
Then you misunderstood. this is the amount spent on healthcare not health research. Research costs have little or nothing to do with immediate patient care. > > > The vast majority of real innovation has come from the NIH and NIH > funded research centers. > > Like what? Where did MRIs come from? Ultrasound? State-of-art > X-ray? Scopic surgery? Advanced surgery techniques? Transplants? MRI was first developed by Raymond V. Damadian while at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, part of his funding was from NIH grants. NIH tech transfers for 2005 were worth over $100 million http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2006/05_05_2006/story01.htm > > This is all funded by NIH you're saying? Nobody makes any money on > these patents, then? All of this intellectual property is simply > licensed from the government? The way it works is that the government sells the license for the device, or drug etc to an external company. The government makes some money off the sale. The company obviously hopes to make cash off the item itself. You can find a list of all the recent tranfers at the NIH tech transfer office: http://ott.od.nih.gov/ > > Boy, you better tell medical equipment manufacturers that because I > don't think they know. They know. They've been the ones bidding on many of the NIH sponsored inventions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288810 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
