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

To: i-node who wrote (7317)	7/1/2009 2:50:38 PM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Rather than arguing what is probably an unimportant point (i.e., where it comes from) It's certainly not unimportant. The government and academia is the one paying for the majority of the reasearch, not the insurance companies. Nonsense. It doesn't do any such thing. Sure it does. If there are 10 companies selling identical widgets, and one is charging twice as much as all the others, you have to assume the one company is doing something wrong. Compare American government run health care (Medicare/Medicaid) with American private health care. American private health care is more efficient than the government run programs. No it's not.

To: i-node who wrote (7317)	7/6/2009 4:06:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

How much great medical innovation comes out of Canada? I'm not sure of the answer to that question, but I don't think its the right question to ask. It may be that (at least after adjusting for Canada's relatively small population) that Canada has a decent amount of medical innovation. But the point is that even if it does the American consumer would have a lot to do with that. A better question would be something like "how much great medical innovation comes from the desire to make profits off of selling to the Canadian consumer?