Because so many other countries limit access to many of the newest drugs, U.S. doctors have perhaps the best and most complete armamentarium for fighting cancer.
Schering wants to make this entirely about LDL (the bad cholesterol) and public health, but there is a valid scientific debate about the place of Zetia in the anti-cholesterol armamentarium.
It also marked the moment when maths began to slip away from being part of the armamentarium of any educated person and towards the dizzyingly abstruse field it has become today.