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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3105)	12/5/2007 9:09:42 PM
From: Road Walker	of 42652

We need to continue and improve on our private and public partnership policies. Agree. The folks that are pleading poverty for the drug companies if we have national insurance are a little misguided. 25 years ago there was little or no marketing of drugs; the doctors made the efficacy decisions. Now, with multi million dollar ads the consumer drives the decisions. Is that a good thing? From either a financial or medical perspective? Are there too many unnecessary (and harmful) prescriptions based on aggressive drug company marketing practices? The federal government already subsidized drug R&D to a great extent, maybe more than the drug companies. The drug companies spend more on marketing than they do on R&D. Drug company profits are more than their R&D. To claim that federal insurance would cut drug company R&D is spacious. But that doesn't stop the ideologists that have only one goal... limiting government.

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