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highwaystar101 on 14 October 2009
Kasz216 said:
highwaystar101 said:
Kasz216 said:

I think it really says something that this happened in the US despite Bush being stingy with the federal money for stem cell reashearch. (basically giving none out.)

The rest of the world needs to step up in funding some medical technology.

I actually made a post along the lines of this in the Science/politics thread. The UK spends so little on new science and technology like this and yet it wants to become a world leader. It's not like it's a bad investment, you can stand to make a good return on medical research both socially and financially.

Yeah, i've read somewhere the US spends more on medical research then the rest of the world combined.

Which is pretty sad considering that the EU is a bigger economy then the US.

Obama fairly recently pledged the US would spend ATLEAST 3% of it's GDP on science.

It looks like you do...

It looks like the USA spends about as much as the next 6 countries combined. 

 

But the USA also spends 15% GDP on healthcare, which considering it doesn't have a full scale national healthcare system is a lot.

 

 



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Kasz216 on 14 October 2009

I'm not sure what B has to do with A.

Especially since most of B would be recycled right back into the country since most health care is mostly domestic. Or i'd think so anyway.

Unless your arguing the fact that we spend so much money on health care gives people in the US more incentive to develop new and pricey health care treatments. That's probably true.

 

Even still... the differential in medical research is FAR greater then the differential in healthcare spending.



leo-j on 14 October 2009

again why aren't we funding this?



 

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mrstickball on 14 October 2009

leo-j - We are. The (false) issue with the subject is that Bush prevented some fed funds to stem cell research, when it was embryonic stem cell research as opposed to stem cell research in general. We've seen a lot of great results from non-embryonic stem cell research that's resulted in procedures like these.

http://www.cbhd.org/stem-cell-research/overview



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HappySqurriel on 14 October 2009

Maybe I'm wrong, but I though Bush only blocked funding to embryonic stem cell research and there was still a lot of government funding for other stem cell research.

Beyond that ... Stem Cells seem to have amazing potential, but it will be decades before they become a readily available treatment for most people.

 

Edit: I see mrstickball beat me to the bush comment



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highwaystar101 on 15 October 2009
Kasz216 said:

I'm not sure what B has to do with A.

Especially since most of B would be recycled right back into the country since most health care is mostly domestic. Or i'd think so anyway.

Unless your arguing the fact that we spend so much money on health care gives people in the US more incentive to develop new and pricey health care treatments. That's probably true.

 

Even still... the differential in medical research is FAR greater then the differential in healthcare spending.

The second chart was just an afterthought to be honest. I came across it when looking for the first one and thought it would be relevant so I posted it. The point was that the USA spends a larger percentage of their GDP on healthcare and medicine and so investing in medical research would be a natural progression from this.



marciosmg on 15 October 2009

I was gonna post tht the problem Bus had (and I agreed) was with embryonic stem cell research. Not any kind. But mr. stickball and Happy Squirrel beat me to it.

Also, wasnt there a discovery a few weeks or months ago about how scientists had found a way to turn stem cells in to embryonic stem cell without the need of actual embryonic ones?



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d21lewis on 15 October 2009

His chin looks weaker, though. Aside from that, this is awesome.



SamuelRSmith on 15 October 2009

If they just do a little plastic surgery around the eyes, he could probably look like he never had the syndrome in the first place.

That's really awesome stuff.



appolose on 15 October 2009

I was going to say what mr. stickball, happysqurriel, and marcio said, but alas.



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