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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: fresc who wrote (228)1/17/2005 2:15:06 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
SOmewhere you made a comment about the Canadian legal system and Canadian pharmaceutical companies. My computer crashed when I tried to reply. This is that reply:

Then you have a superior legal system. Can we borrow it? :-)

I haven't found figures to back this, but supposedly part of the reason for the difference in drug prices between the US and Canada is that legal sytem: The manufacturers don't face the same legal risks selling in Canada.

Now that does have a downside: they don't get stung as hard for screw ups. Or just plain human mistakes. But it does mean they can sell the drugs at a lower cost and more people who need the drug can get it. Regardless of whether a multi-payer or single payer system is used.

Idiot lawsuits make it through the US legal system all the time, mainly because it is often cheaper for a manufacturer to settle even a silly suit than pay millions fighting it through the courts.

As I suggested to Suma, if you want to criticize the US tort system, maybe you need to take on geode00 on Compendium. He thinks it's PERFECT.

Now about those Canadian pharamceutical companies: name them. Google knoweth them not.
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