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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: TimF who wrote (1758)	7/20/2007 2:03:18 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) of 42652

re: The full sentence you used was single payer has proved to do that in every test. The problem is that there hasn't been any tests, and probably can't be a realistic test that controls for all the other variables. In the industrialized countries with single payer the costs are between 25% and 50% lower; and the results the same or better. You can nuance that all you want but you look like you are peeing into the wind. re: Countries with such controls can rely on American money to underwrite developing new drugs, but if we add them there isn't another America waiting in the wings to pay for all the drug development. For someone that is against nearly all US government subsidies, you are remarkably generous with subsidizing the entire world. Besides, it's a separate issue. We're talking about reforming the health care payment system, not negotiating drug prices. Would single payer lead to negotiated drug prices? Maybe, at some future date. Maybe not. There are plenty of savings outside of that issue. Don't try to cloud the specific discussion.

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