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

To: Road Walker who wrote (13300)	2/6/2010 7:31:51 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Do the people on this thread still subscribe to the notion that we (wealthy, middle class and poor) are rich enough to subsidize drugs for the rest of the industrialized world? That is a good question. In effect, higher US drug prices are a form of foreign aid. Many nations with socialized healthcare systems make drug companies sell them drugs at low prices - under the fear of closing off the markets, or simply breaking their patens and copying the drugs. Personally, from my perspective, it is also a great dilemma what would happen if WE go ahead and do the same, thereby squeezing the R&D. As things stand, it's a struggle to stay one step ahead of the infections. If we stop the flow of new meds, the results could be hard to imagine. Guess, I'm not quite sure what's the answer to your question. Maybe the rest of the "industrial world" should stop acting like parasites?