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


To: Brumar89 who wrote (4245)2/4/2008 2:16:38 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
Yeah, but if cox checks out the truth of that, he'll have a heart attack. :-)



To: Brumar89 who wrote (4245)2/4/2008 3:41:35 PM
From: gg cox  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
<<1) free-riding on drug discoveries made in hope of profit in the US market and 2) using us as their backup system.>>

New drugs are developed all over the world and are for sale to any and all.America does not have a lock on discovering new drugs.FDA approval is important to small companies because of your large market, it is not a free ride,FDA does not fund or support small companies, but a bonus if approved by FDA.

Yes we take advantage of your health care system when we need it. And we pay top dollar, no discounts which helps with the subsides as discussed up thread for it's use, so little or no waiting times for us.You are more than happy to take our money.If your system covered all your citizens, an extra 50 million, we might fall back in the Q.

I don't have to malign your system, you have 50 million to do that.They are not here on this thread though.



To: Brumar89 who wrote (4245)2/6/2008 3:12:05 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 42652
 
using us as their backup system.

Seems to me like a win-win situation. Canada saves by not providing capacity for peaks in event frequencies and the U.S. gets high marginal revenue on low marginal cost by selling spare capacity.