ww2 and meat consumption? that's kind of a stretch. i'm not a "rightie", and i'm a proud athiest. and the history involving human development i mentioned is 100% accurate. if you can point where i'm wrong, please do so.
actually, in the U.S., most of the biomedical research comes from private industry. Since 2003, the NIH was responsible for 28%-about $28 billion-of the total biomedical research funding spent annually in the U.S., with most of the rest coming from industry.
also,
1. about health-care as a "human right". the people who advocate this principle seem to forget about all the advances we've made in medicine and health-care because of those awful profits, not to mention the health-care industry employs millions of people.
2. not all the 45 million unisured are americans... even the pew hispanic center says illegal immigrants make up about 15% of that number, and they tend to give fairly conservative estimates.
what i don't understand is... if our current system is so expensive, and universal health-care would be cheaper, why do we need to tax rich people, or anyone for that matter? wouldn't the money we currently spend on the uninsured be transferred to this new system? i'm open-minded about he concept, but i don't think we should be taking more money from people during a recession, even if they include those evil rich people.
eating meat is a major part of human development over thousands of years. it literally transformed our bodies (in GOOD ways). haha, leftists like to complain about how right-wingers are anti-science, unless it involves "big pharma" or animal-testing.