Comments for NYT Runs Propaganda Piece to Promote Europe-U.S. Trade Deal at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.cepr.net Sat, 18 May 2013 19:37:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/nyt-runs-propaganda-piece-to-promote-europe-us-trade-deal#comment-21316 Pete, i have two words for you; "Generic Drugs". European socialized medicine completely ignores US drug patents and uses generic drugs to control costs. That is why europe is paying a fraction of what the US pays per capita for healthcare. This idea is a handful of rightwing reactionaries trying to backdoor kill their countries own social programs. If the EU had to buy drugs at US prices, their government healthcare programs would collapse overnight. Which, given statements made by Mirkel and Camaron, is quite possibly the point. - Lrellok Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:28:32 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/nyt-runs-propaganda-piece-to-promote-europe-us-trade-deal#comment-21280 I don't think Europe has the same relative IP issues as Asia. I.e., I think IP is already well protected there, so that should not really be part of the discussion at all. With Asia, IP rights do not exist in some places, effectively it not legally, so it is a huge issue. The critical issue would be labor movement. We could, e.g., normalize health care costs by having underpaid european health care workers come to the U.S. and lower our health care costs. - pete Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:44:09 +0100