Re: Canadians, a couple of questions about health care

From: Hartmann Schaffer (hs_at_hartmann.schaffernet)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:49:28 -0500

Kurt Ullman wrote:
> ...
> Actually they are kept affordable because your government puts a
> gun to the head of the Pharm companies and says this is what we will
> pay for the medications and if you don't like it we'll take away the
> patent and make it for ourselves. Take it or leave it.

and how do you arrive at that stupid conclusion? with nafta, law suites
would be flying all over the place in such a situation, and i haven'
heard of any. more likely we benefit from the single payer system: the
insurance system told the pharmas how much they are willing to spend,
and the pharmas figured out that they are still making a profit, albeit
not as much as in the states. note that nobody forces them to sell here.

hs

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