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POPSPatents of genes Under consideration (may 2009) is a suit challenging the right of companies to patent genes. Some ethicists do not take issue with Myriad's patents but with how the company uses them. Part of the ALCU's argument is that Myriad charges $3,000 for its diagnostic cancer test, a price that prevents some women from seeking this preventive measure.
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POPS10 Facts on American Healthcare
Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent). Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. Maligned as a waste by economists and policymakers naïve to actual medical practice, an overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identified computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade. The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has nearly 27 MRI machine
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POPS10 Reasons Why We Need Health Care Reform To be more like Europe and Canada we need to reform our current health care system to eliminate these 10 benefits. It is shameful that Americans should be in better health then their European counterparts. It is shameful that we do not have to wait as long as the Canadians do to get health care. It is shameful to think that our poor citizens are healthier than Canadians. It is shameful that we have better access to MRI's and other imaging technologies. Why should we be so privileged while our northern neighbors are not so fortunate? And finally let someone else be responsible for health care innovation why should we be responsible for doing it all? I say tear this system apart and remake it so that we can be just like Canada and Europe.
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