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This is basically the paradox of US healthcare innovation. Canada can tell its pharmaceutical companies, "yeah, that cool drug you just invented, we're not gonna pay you what you want for that." And what option does the pharmaceutical company have? Convince healthcare providers to charge retail prices to their patients as an out-of-pocket expense, or... reduce prices accordingly. Because healthcare payments are not f…
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US firms are investing less in R&D relatively to their rank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry#Market_... than their French/UK (publicly-funded healthcare) counterparts. The US are not "subsidizing it for poor countries" more than other rich countries. The truth in the case you're making is not specific to healthcare and is that "research (private and public) of rich countries that can afford it" be…
From that list 48.17% of all health care R&D spend is by US based companies. Sounds like the US is subsidizing the world to me.
Chemotherapy is a form therapy where the medicine companies heal the the patient off his money and then kill him.
Huh? Do you have an idea of how science and medicine works?
http://www.cancer-research-awareness.com/why-chemotherapy-ne...
http://www.smashcancer.com/2010/08/22/cancer-lies-and-the-me...
http://current.com/green/89138817_cancer-is-not-a-disease-ch...
Just a few writings and articles speaking about the lie that is chemotherapy.
I have an idea how medicine works, let me spell it out here for you:
1. Poison the foods (GMO, sugars, fats, overprocessed crap that is the idea of western food)
2. Sell medicine for people who eat this poisoned food
3. Profit!
Now, this is _my_ idea. You are allowed to have your own idea about this.
This is basically the paradox of US healthcare innovation. Canada can tell its pharmaceutical companies, "yeah, that cool drug you just invented, we're not gonna pay you what you want for that." And what option does the pharmaceutical company have? Convince healthcare providers to charge retail prices to their patients as an out-of-pocket expense, or... reduce prices accordingly. Because healthcare payments are not f…
This is basically the paradox of US healthcare innovation. Canada can tell its pharmaceutical companies, "yeah, that cool drug you just invented, we're not gonna pay you what you want for that." And what option does the pharmaceutical company have? Convince healthcare providers to charge retail prices to their patients as an out-of-pocket expense, or... reduce prices accordingly. Because healthcare payments are not f…
> The US is effectively subsidizing advanced healthcare for every other country in the world. That's a very misinformed statement.
This is basically the paradox of US healthcare innovation. Canada can tell its pharmaceutical companies, "yeah, that cool drug you just invented, we're not gonna pay you what you want for that." And what option does the pharmaceutical company have? Convince healthcare providers to charge retail prices to their patients as an out-of-pocket expense, or... reduce prices accordingly. Because healthcare payments are not f…
> The US is effectively subsidizing advanced healthcare for every other country in the world. That's a very misinformed statement.
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US firms are investing less in R&D relatively to their rank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry#Market_... than their French/UK (publicly-funded healthcare) counterparts. The US are not "subsidizing it for poor countries" more than other rich countries. The truth in the case you're making is not specific to healthcare and is that "research (private and public) of rich countries that can afford it" be…
From that list 48.17% of all health care R&D spend is by US based companies. Sounds like the US is subsidizing the world to me.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
From that list 48.17% of all health care R&D spend is by US based companies. Sounds like the US is subsidizing the world to me.
keep on believing. you're the defender of freedoms after all