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Originally Posted by FunForOne
Getting the government involved in the healtcare business will kill it. The pill that cures cancer will not be invented by a 9-5 employee with no responsiblity to create revenue for his company.
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Actually nobody is talking about privatizing the pharmaceutical industry. That would remain a private enterprise.
The difference is that Americans would pay the same LOWER prices for drugs that Canadians and several other countries pay.
Also, government funding to those pharmaceutical companies is what made many of the medical breakthroughs of this century possible. They take our taxpayer dollars in the form of research grants and tax credits for research, and then charge the American people 3 times as much for a pill as they charge the Canadians.
That's fucking insane.
With a universal system we would have the same bargaining power, actually greater bargaining power, than all of the countries who currently have a single payer system.