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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4359)	2/8/2008 11:17:40 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (4) of 42652

Other countries do medical and drug research. On basic research I don't know that I'd call them free riders. The diabetes study was apparently a university research study not product development. Considered in isolation other countries might be "free riders" on it, but than we would be free riders on their studies considered in isolation. In this area I'd probably just say that neither the US, nor Europe, nor Japan, Canada, South Korea etc. is a free rider. If I had to guess, I'd guess the US pays for more than its share of medical research, but 1 - That's only a guess, and not even a highly educated one, and 2 - Other countries would have to pay far less than their share before I'd call them free riders. Where they are free riders is on development and testing of products. If they aren't free riders they are at least "cheap riders". Yes there drug companies do development and testing as well, and quite a lot of it, that's not how they are cheap or free riders. But even the research performed by and paid for by foreign companies, and done in other countries is paid for largely in the hopes of making a profit off American consumers.

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