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To: TimF who wrote (28070)	4/25/2008 4:20:18 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

[In all of our companion wealthy nations health care costs have also been squeezed so that --- on a PER CAPITA BASIS --- they are all much lower then the per capita costs the US runs.] Re: "Your assuming that their government insurance/medical care payment programs are critical factors in those lower costs." No... but that should be a fairly easy matter to demonstrate since ALL of the specific wealthy nations that I listed have made major alterations to their national health care systems in just the past few decades, so the changes in their statistical trends should be fairly clear. Taiwan in the late 'eighties, I believe. Switzerland just in the past few years, etc., etc. Most of them have admixtures of for-profit corporate involvement and not-for-profit... plus a variety of commonsensical technological changes such as national requirements for bar coding in all prescriptions, single national standards for all insurance forms, etc., and all show SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER per capita health care costs, and significantly lower TRENDS in costs, as well as much better health statistics for their citizenry... then the unreconstructed US does. And, parenthetically, the big pharma companies headquartered in Switzerland are still doing just fine profit-wise, thank-you-very-much. :-)