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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: redfish who wrote (19)	1/9/2005 10:16:59 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 42652

What of pharmaceutical companies? I have seen allegations (although I have seen it backed by numbers and evidence) that the largest part of the difference in drug costs between the US and much of the rest of the world is because of differences in the legal systems. Caps are put on awards in other countries; not here. Here a drug company can be bankrupted by one bad drug (Vioxx may just do that to Merck.) That legal risk has to be priced into the drug.

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