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McDonald's can have 24/7 drive though windows while selling burgers and fries, but most pharmacy's are not open close to 24/7.
Burgers and fries don't require clinical trials.
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McDonald's can have 24/7 drive though windows while selling burgers and fries, but most pharmacy's are not open close to 24/7.
Pharmacists cost a lot more to employ then a couple of 17 year olds
But again mostly you need to get your drugs in the day.
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Your view of economics does not match reality. A survey of hundreds of published economic studies and legal decisions of antitrust authorities found that the median price increase achieved by cartels in the last 200 years is about 23%.[1] Private international cartels (those with participants from two or more nations) had an average price increase of 28%, whereas domestic cartels averaged 18%. Less than 10% of all ca…
My view of cartels matches non-academic reality. Here's one: OPEC here's a non-member ( which is basically a cartel by itself) fucking it for them: US Here's another cartel: Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Here's a competitor: Hyundai Heavy Industries When real world meets economic studies, economic studies get clobbered
If there was there would be a competing cartel as it is the case everywhere.
Providing two examples of where there are competing cartels is not an argument that this phenomenon occurs everywhere (emphasis originally yours). Your logic is off.
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Please let us know what is "working" for US citizens about the current system.
You pay, you get healthcare. Yeah, it's not cheap, but your max out of pocket for 2017 with a marketplace plan is just $7150. https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...
I'm still not 100% sure they aren't going to resurrect those bills in another 6 months.
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Anything approved in both countries ought to be OK, no?
You are describing this: Canada->US, approved US->Canada, approved i.e. Canadian companies are successfully selling to the united states medicine that is manufactured in Canada and is regulated by the US. US companies successfully selling products to Canada that are manufactured in the US and regulated in Canada. If we had a reciprocity then we would have: US->Canda->US auto-approved Canada->US->Canada auto-approved…
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You're confusing GDP with taxes https://randomcriticalanalysis.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/t...
No, I'm not. As indicated in my link, Americans pay the highest per-capita costs (be it via premiums/copays, taxes, etc.) for healthcare in the world.
You also have to consider that the US develops most novel drugs and therapies, by a wide margin. Are you taking and Chinese or Russian or African drugs? Neither do I.
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No, I'm not. As indicated in my link, Americans pay the highest per-capita costs (be it via premiums/copays, taxes, etc.) for healthcare in the world.
No way Americans pay more in taxes than most of Europe. That's absolutely not true. If you want to compare to third world countries, I suggest you try and live there before telling us how great it is. You also have to consider that the US develops most novel drugs and therapies, by a wide margin. Are you taking and Chinese or Russian or African drugs? Neither do I.
Americans pay more than Europeans (and anyone else in the world) for healthcare. This is demonstrable fact.
edit: Here, look at this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_p...
We're paying as much or more than most of the OECD in healthcare from a tax perspective, then adding on a bunch of private spending they don't have, for a total spending wildly larger than any of them.
Let's not pretend this is some bizarre problem that needs more money to solve. Congress only has to erase one law.
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My view of cartels matches non-academic reality. Here's one: OPEC here's a non-member ( which is basically a cartel by itself) fucking it for them: US Here's another cartel: Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Here's a competitor: Hyundai Heavy Industries When real world meets economic studies, economic studies get clobbered
You wrote: If there was there would be a competing cartel as it is the case everywhere. Providing two examples of where there are competing cartels is not an argument that this phenomenon occurs everywhere (emphasis originally yours). Your logic is off.
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You are describing this: Canada->US, approved US->Canada, approved i.e. Canadian companies are successfully selling to the united states medicine that is manufactured in Canada and is regulated by the US. US companies successfully selling products to Canada that are manufactured in the US and regulated in Canada. If we had a reciprocity then we would have: US->Canda->US auto-approved Canada->US->Canada auto-approved…
I’m saying that even if we don’t have reciprocity, if the drug is separately approved in both countries, it should be legal to buy in Canada and take to the US.
