On 13 Jul 2007, at 04:01, Dan Minette wrote:
>
> Governments could step in, but in countries with price
> controls/negotiations...they haven't. Instead, they rely on the US
> providing the profits that pay for innovation, then negotiate a
> price for
> themselves. It's not rock bottom, but tha
On 13/07/2007, at 1:01 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
> of GDP. If everyone were to get the care available to those with
> the very
> best insurance policiesthen it would probably jump to 20% or
> so...immediately (That assumes that the health care denied by
> reasons of
> costs represents only
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> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: U.S. health care
>
>
> it that is the dynamic, dan, then anerica is sunsidizing the rest of
> the world, whi
> if that is the dynamic, dan, then anerica is subsidizing the rest of
> the world, which would be justice.
If you are talking about Sub-Sahara Africa, and other third world
countries,
I would certainly favor ways of lowering the cost of drugs in those
countries. But, I don't think we need to s
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> Subject: Re: U.S. health care
>
> That assumes you keep providing care the way you do.
>
> Increase preventative medi
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 12:23 PM
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> Subject: U.S. health care
>
> > if that is the dynamic, dan, then anerica is subsidizing the rest of
> > the world, w
dan, are you certain only 15% of americans lack health care coverage?
i agree that this does not represent the majority of health care costs.
do you believe a single payer system would reduce costs effectively?
http://www.pnhp.org/facts/why_the_us_needs_a_single_payer_health_system.php
i agree tha
Huh? That's not how it works.
dan, i'm confused i realize that it doesn't work that way in other
countries, but are you defending the way it works in america, or
denying that lobbies have enormous influence in congress?
i realize there are costs in creating new drugs and marketing them. do
yo
> dan, i'm confused i realize that it doesn't work that way in other
> countries, but are you defending the way it works in america, or
> denying that lobbies have enormous influence in congress?
Lobbies do have an influence in Congress, and changes that they oppose are
often beneficial. However,
> Lobbies do have an influence in Congress, and changes that they oppose are
> often beneficial. However, getting rid of the lobbies does not get rid of
> the fundamentals of the problem. If you take the profitability out of
> drug
> development by private companies, you will stop private drug d
> -Original Message-
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> Behalf Of jon louis mann
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 3:26 PM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: U.S. health care
>
> dan, are you certain only 15% of americans lack health care coverage?
The number's I've
On 14/07/2007, at 4:04 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
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>
>> That assumes you keep providing care the way you do.
>>
>> Increase preventative medicine and primary nursing, and you reduce
>> other healthcare threefold.
>
> How?
...because hospital stays reduce and recovery times increase. Good
prevent
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