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

To: Road Walker who wrote (3046)	12/4/2007 8:38:42 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

I often wonder, when you pay your co-pay of $10 or $15 for a prescription for a $100 retail drug, what the insurance companies are actually paying for the drugs vs. an uninsured consumer. FWIW, my provider shows both the price I pay and the cost to my employer, Uncle Sam. With minimal research, the employer cost looks like full retail cost to me. If we had a national system then that system would have even more buying power. I don't see how we could negotiate drug prices for the country in other than a national system.