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

To: skinowski who wrote (13309)2/8/2010 6:47:54 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
I think in a situation when most purchasers are national governments (or fully owned "government subsidiaries"), it is no longer a "free market". All those decisions - how much to pay for meds, etc - are already being made on the level of government bureaucrats.

There are a lot of industries where the primary customers are governments. Just very few (if any) where a government is stupid enough to make it illegal for themselves to negotiate.


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