" Also, needless procedures are reduced, as people can't "self-treat" using their private coverage."

Cool. We love our HMO's making decisions for us, some bureaucrat making muts be a wonderful improvement. I'm too stupid to know what kind of treatment I want.

"...realize that not every nation or culture believes that."

Works both ways, huh?


If rich countries do not pay for pharmacological and medical research, who will? How does Canada pay for med research? The consumer in the USA effectively subsidizes that kind of research in every country which has price controls. How? Because that research is paid out of the profits. If profits are reduced in one country and not another, who pays for research? If all countries engage in price controls, where would the incentive come from for R&D of new meds? From the goodness of their hearts?

Oh, I get it...we'll subsidize university and government scientists to take-over medical R&D. In this manner we could have the complete gov control of healthcare system. It would be as advanced as the Chicom, Soviet, and Cuban models.

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