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

To: Road Walker who wrote (13325)	2/8/2010 11:21:58 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

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. Right now the problem is that most nations pay less than their "fair share" of the costs involved in development and production of medications. The problem with this image of governments negotiating costs of medications is that the negotiations would be not with drug companies, but with other governments. It would be not a free market economic process, but a political accommodation. My guess? Maybe some wealthy nations would agree to pay a little more. Probably, many poor nations would demand even lower prices. In the end not an awful lot would change. The net result would be that politicians of many nations would find themselves more "in play"..... and they are very skillful at exploiting every chance they get.