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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: jttmab who wrote (8945)12/31/2001 8:24:32 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
Heard about all the American elderly that do to Mexico and the Canada to get their prescriptions filled?
Yup. Canada dictates the price. So does Mexico. Somebody has to pay for pharmaceutical R&D and the very expensive FDA qualification process. Guess what? It's US citizens. They have the money to pay for R&D so the rest of the world can get cheap drugs. And that FDA process- -it's just US. Europe commonly gets new drugs sooner than the US because their process is simpler and less bureaucratic.

Heard about Rep Dan Burton sending his wife to Germany for cancer treatment?
Nope.

Heard about how high the infant mortality rate is in the US compared to other western countries?
We get large numbers of immigrants, legal and illegal, here; Europe doesn't. They are commonly poorly educated and skilled and can't afford high quality medical care.
Now if you subtract that out, what do the numbers look like?

Under the US system, if you don't have enough money to qualify for medicare, you don't get treatment.
Every county has a publically financed hospital that must treat whoever shows up. Not necessarily that fast and not necessarily that good, true. But treatment.
If the recipient can't pay (which is common), the county, state and federal gov'ts are stuck with the cost.
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