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Hello to our friends across the "pond" The discussion on the allocating of scarce resources between welfare (care for those currently afflicted) and research (finding a cure) is a very timely subject. Not long after I joined this network someone from the UK wrote a long pros and cons paper on this network. There were a few comments and the subject fell by the wayside. We on this side of the "pond" need to think about this. My educational background is Econometrics and I know this problem has been mathamatically modeled with many assumptions. Chosing 50% for both shows recognizion of the importance of both welfare and research. What it doesn't show is much more. Today we are a world community. Your decisions have an impact on us. I have slowed my consumption of beef just because of the situation in the UK. So please openly discuss the R v. W issue. It will make us all think rationally about health care. Regards, Alan Bonander