From: henry999@eircom.net   
      
   Ben Brumfield  wrote:   
      
   > Well, if you read the thread, it looks like Martha is claiming that the   
   > existence of a "decent   
   > health care system" (by which she means a system more akin to that of   
   > Northern Europe than to the U.S.A.) would "reduce the popularity of   
   > religious excess."  Looking at  the religious excess in question and   
   > the healthcare systems in the countries involved quite obviously does   
   > not support that correlation.   
      
   Sorry, but I'm still confused.   
      
   > Certainly the extremism in Europe doesn't correlate to a lack of   
   > socialized medicine.  You might even draw the opposite conclusion if   
   > you were to compare the cartoon protests in the U.S. to those in the   
   > U.K.  Analyzed exclusively on that variable, the marchers carrying   
   > "behead those who insult Islam" in the UK were really there because of   
   > the NIH.   
      
   How in the world are the bloody-minded marchers "in the UK really there   
   BECAUSE OF [emphasis added] the" National Institutes of Health, which is   
   not even a 'health care system' at all but a medical research facility   
   -- and an agency of the _United States_ government?   
      
   Are you saying that medical research in the US is somehow _causing_   
   marchers in the UK to protest about Danish cartoons???   
      
   cheers,   
      
   Henry   
      
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