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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (9009)	1/1/2002 3:05:41 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Yup. Canada dictates the price. So does Mexico. Somebody has to pay for pharmaceutical R&D and the very expensive FDA qualification process. Guess what? It's US citizens. They have the money to pay for R&D so the rest of the world can get cheap drugs. And that FDA process- -it's just US. Europe commonly gets new drugs sooner than the US because their process is simpler and less bureaucratic. What US companies like Bayer, the supplier of anthrax vaccine? Gimme a break. Bayer goes through the same FDA process that the US companies go through. And that FDA process- -it's just US. Europe commonly gets new drugs sooner than the US because their process is simpler and less bureaucratic. Fortunately, the Brits got thalidomide with their simpler and less bureaucratic process. You take your chances and pay for it. We get large numbers of immigrants, legal and illegal, here; Europe doesn't. They are commonly poorly educated and skilled and can't afford high quality medical care. Now if you subtract that out, what do the numbers look like? You don't think Britain [and other countries in Europe] have problems with large numbers of legal and illegal immigrants. What a joke. Perhaps you should start reading some international news. International means outside of the US. Now if you subtract that out, what do the numbers look like? What, you asking me to do your work for you? Be sure to include the immigrants in Europe, as well, when you do the calculations. Every county has a publically financed hospital that must treat whoever shows up. Not necessarily that fast and not necessarily that good, true. But treatment. If the recipient can't pay (which is common), the county, state and federal gov'ts are stuck with the cost. Nice theory, but it doesn't happen. Break up the population into covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. That leaves about 15% not covered by anything. They don't get services. Even under Medicare, I have a dear Aunt, that's trying to decide whether she can afford her phone. It's becoming a trade off between the phone and paying for her medications. Absolutely no way she would take charity from institutions or even family. You think she'll walk into a clinic to get an artery splint? Gimme a break.