Re: Canadians, a couple of questions about health care

From: Kurt Ullman (kurtullman_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:33:13 GMT

In article <q_hAd.1751$2a1.12467@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>, Hartmann
Schaffer <hs@hartmann.schaffernet> wrote:
>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.
>
  I read the Canadian governments own webistes and laws on the subjects.
Under Canadian law the government not only sets the price, but they
often take their time doing so. If the Pharm company guesses wrong
and sets the wrong price, the Phram company has to (and has on a few
occassions) rebated their ill-gotten gains to the government. 

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