“Ray,” in case you’re interested, I have a response here:
You could easily have contacted me to get clarification as to why I don’t believe those past client associations matter, or require disclosure. So why didn’t you?
Also, if you had read carefully, you would have understood that the three companies involved are not “my” clients. But yet you commented as if they are/were. That’s either ignorant or fundamentally dishonest. Which is it?
venividivici’s point is also well-taken. Every politician who advocates socialized medicine has a conflict of interest, because its adoption enhances his/hers and the government’s monopolistic and non-competitive power and influence.
On the other hand, even if these companies WERE current clients (which I would have disclosed if relevant), for you to justify your holier than thou-ness, you’d have to show that my opposition to socialized medicine would somehow benefit them as opposed to benefitting Pfizer, Merck, AstraZeneca, etc.
Taken to your extreme, I may be allowed to have an opinion, but I’m not allowed to publish it. Horse manure.
