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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT?
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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (57)8/9/2003 12:26:26 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 3079
 
Brian,

Re: What needs to be done is to allow the reimportation of drugs from Canada and other countries.

That seems to be a Rube Goldberg approach. Wouldn't it make much more sense to create a single-payer system in the U.S., remove the perverse incentives for big PHARMA to play obscene patent games, force an end to wasteful advertising and in general, rationalize the insane and silly system that warped notions of "free markets" for the consumer and protection for big Pharma and the big insurance rackets has created?

We've got a monstrously dysfunctional system in the U.S.

The public sector in the U.S., UK, Germany, France, Canada and Scandanavia provide health care with an overhead cost of 2-3%.

Compare that to the U.S.'s astonishing 15 to 25% overheads via wasteful private insurance schemes.

The math just doesn't add up for the private system of insurance company and big Pharma coddling that we've create in this country. Nor do the profits of big PHARMA bear any resemblance to the reality of their R&D costs.
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