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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (19)	1/9/2005 10:16:59 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

What of pharmaceutical companies? I have seen allegations (although I have seen it backed by numbers and evidence) that the largest part of the difference in drug costs between the US and much of the rest of the world is because of differences in the legal systems. Caps are put on awards in other countries; not here. Here a drug company can be bankrupted by one bad drug (Vioxx may just do that to Merck.) That legal risk has to be priced into the drug.

To: redfish who wrote (19)	1/10/2005 4:16:32 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 42652

redfish, actually, it is very easy for a surgical team to amputate the wrong body part. To help prevent this, policies are in place in most hospitals to mark right on the patient's skin with a giant felt (hypoallergenic) marker, in second-coming print, what is to be amputated. Some hospital policies require that the patient be asked several times before being anesthetized if the correct area has been marked, and that this be thorougly and precisely documented on the patient's chart. There are other areas of medical negligence which can approach and even exceed amputating the wrong body part. From another thread: Murphy does Medicine Message 20760628 - Holly