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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (183391)2/3/2006 11:12:34 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
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in a free market system, why are foreign governments not allowed to pay whatever they choose? They are "the market" for the socialized medicine countries.

Interesting argument. I would say that the fact that the countries do control the market reduces the amount that the market is really free.

The problem as I see it is not other countries but the US. We are the ones without a free market.

Can you explain what you mean by this. Even if the foreign governments are considered the customers in an international free market, their internal drug markets are much less free than ours.

Of course our market is heavily regulated, but it is a lot freer than Canada's internal market in drugs. Canada controls the price. Here we have something that is closer to a market price.

Tim
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