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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (262299)4/22/2008 5:23:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Some companies have ceased doing business with the biggest of all retailers because they were actually losing money.

Walmart competes for its business, it isn't a government program. And it competes to get suppliers as cheaply as possible. Its hardly surprising that some suppliers stop trying, if they can't compete. That would be expected, as is the way the market operates. In the meantime they can try to supply Target, K-Mart, etc. Walmart isn't a "single payer plan".

If drug companies don't want to participate in a single payer US plan

Exactly your looking for a single payer. If it truly is a single payer its a monopoly provider, and a monopsony customer. And not even a monopoly/monopsony that is in place because it defeated the competition, but because the government makes it one. It doesn't "negotiate on price" it sets the price.
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