[Glenn]

This was NOT "socialized medicine."

Is that true of the world effort? Did the donations of America eradicate smallpox and Polio? Were the cures patented? Should cures be patentable?

I'd be interested in a Franklin answer to today's problems, is the point.

[Congressman Billybob]

My understanding is that Dr. Salk did not attempt to patent the vaccine that he developed for polio. I know that the researchers who worked on leukemia research did not attempt to patent the cures that they developed for that dread disease.

Like I said, these were examples of tremendously successful American charity. Why, exactly, do you insist on pushing these examples, wrongfully, into the the category of socialized medicine? Do you have an agenda? I don't.

John / Billybob