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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (379090)	4/21/2008 7:33:13 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1587368

I don't see the costs coming down anytime soon, especially not with universal health care. Most likely the costs will be passed onto someone else, i.e. those who can "afford" it. Watch Big Pharma get it in the shorts first. Maybe that's a good thing given what they do to protect their profit margins, but the baby is likely going to be thrown out with the bath water. No, the first to get it would be the health insurance companies. That's where the biggest savings is; between their profits and sales and marketing expenses we could save a bundle. Streamline the claims process with a single payment system would probably cut doctor's support staff in half. The drug companies would probably get hit as well. A single payer system would likely have more negotiating power. I would like to see prescription drug 'consumer' advertising outlawed; instead of patients making drug decisions based on slick TV advertising the doctors would return to making decisions based on efficacy. Main thing is we have to take cost out of the system or it will really get tough starting in about 6 years.