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To: TimF who wrote (183390)2/2/2006 10:52:42 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
in a free market system, why are foreign goverments not allowed to pay whatever they choose? They are "the market" for the socialized medicine countries.

The problem as I see it is not other countries but the US. We are the ones without a free market. If other nations, who negotiate with our drug companies to buy, want to sell to us, so be it.

Free market, supply and demand, simple.

Oh but it isn't so simple if it cuts the republican donor's profit margins now is it. Free markets are all fine and good when we are talking about the cost of labor or imports.

Our businesses negotiate to allow foreign workers to come here to fill a "need". The need is to keep the prices down. Drugs from Canada or LA fill the same "need". Maybe let them supply 20% of the market ?
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