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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Joe NYC who wrote (4200)	2/4/2008 1:14:06 PM
From: TimF	of 42652

Drugs certainly are not magic silver bullets. The side effects can be very damaging, and the intended effect doesn't always work (or may itself be dangerous, I could think of a lot of examples but a simple one is anti-rejection drugs, they might indeed keep a transplant from being rejected but they do so by knocking down the immune response, its not a side effect but the intended effect, but it does expose people to more risk from infection) None of that means they don't cause a large net health benefit overall. but I am not quite ready to admit the second one (artivicial substances are not Then we will have to disagree, but just to repeat my point for clarification, its not "artificial substances are not harmful", but rather "plenty of artificial substances are not toxic". The distinctions between the two phrases being 1 - I'm not making a categorical statement about all, or even most artificial substances. And 2 - I'm saying there are plenty that aren't toxic, not plenty that can't cause harm in any way. Any substance can potentially be harmful in the right concentrations and conditions.

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