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 16:06:13 -0500

Kurt Ullman 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.
>
> 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.

well, if you compare the two statements above and have some reading
comprehension (based on PISA results not very likely), you will notice
that those are quite different. do you always have the habit of making
things up to embellish your paranoid prejudices?

hs

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