More fun for medical practitioners buried in the stimulus?

[De Selby]

Ah, yes. As I recall, there is government price controls for medicine, et al. in Australia, no?

I wonder if all these socialized countries realize that they've been leeching off the market in the United States that drives research and new medicines.

I also wonder what will happen when they kill the golden goose. (i.e. the United States becomes a euro-socialist state like them.)

Probably not much-medical technology is a major industry here.  Some of the larger bio-med leadership in the world comes out of Melbourne, even when the Corporate headquarters are in New York. 

This idea that everyone's leeching off America is more glorious self image than truth. 

[MicroBalrog]

This idea that everyone's leeching off America is more glorious self image than truth. 

If you think that, I suggest you should read Olaf Gersemann's Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality.

An excellent book.

[Vodka7]

Probably not much-medical technology is a major industry here.  Some of the larger bio-med leadership in the world comes out of Melbourne, even when the Corporate headquarters are in New York. 

This idea that everyone's leeching off America is more glorious self image than truth. 

It doesn't matter where the research is done--all that means is you have comparatively low labor costs.  What matters, like jfruser already said, is where the funding for that research comes.  And that comes from all the profits they make selling drugs in America.

[KD5NRH]

The old "legacy Americans," the ones that might still remember something about the Constitution and the Founding Fathers and all that, have really become rather tedious, annoying, and, well, extraneous; the sooner they pass on the better.

"Legacy" assumes there is still some support, however tenuous.  The word you're looking for is "deprecated."

[De Selby]

If you think that, I suggest you should read Olaf Gersemann's Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality.

An excellent book.

Sounds like a good read.