You Will Anyway: Tell Me Again How Great Free Market Capitalism Is

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Tell Me Again How Great Free Market Capitalism Is

DUBAI - The Ministry of Health has warned against using breast implants made of silicon and produced by Poly Prothese PIP, a French manufacturing company.

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These implants have been withdrawn by the French Agency for the Safety of Health Products after receiving reports of damage to the silicone packages they contain.

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France has offered to remove the implants from an estimated 30,000 wearers there free of charge while Britain, where a similar number of women are affected, has advised them to contact surgeons when they had a specific concern.

Khaleej Times

The tycoon at the heart of the breast implants scandal that has affected hundreds of thousands of women has admitted his company deliberately used inferior silicone gel.

The owner of bankrupt company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) Jean-Claude Mas revealed that PIP sold protheses with industrial-grade silicone that had not been approved by health authorities to be sold at discounted prices.

But wealthier clients were sold implants with high-quality gel, The Times newspaper reported.

Daily Mail

Around 1,000 Dutch women have breast implants of the suspect kind made by a French company but sold under a different name, a Netherlands health official has said, broadening a scandal that could affect 300,000 or more women worldwide.

Health authority spokeswoman Diane Bouhuijs said a Dutch company had bought implants made by Poly Implant Prothese, which went bankrupt in 2010 after French authorities shut its doors. It is now under investigation. They were sold rebranded as "M-implants".

UK Guardian

Venezuela is offering free surgeries for women to remove faulty French-made breast implants.

The health minister, Eugenia Sader, said women with implants made by the now-defunct French company, Poly Implant Prothese, can go to hospitals that carry out plastic surgery to have the implants removed, the state-run Venezuelan news agency reported.

UK Guardian

Rebranded and sold elsewhere.

Oh, that's right. The fault isn't greedy capitalists, it's poor people again. Ladies, if you can't afford high quality breast implants, do without. It's your own fault for trying to get a bargain.

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GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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