The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India
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#3America is the country staying in the private room subsidizing all the other patients.
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#4Discussion on this article from 4 days ago:
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#5> "I was surprised to find that “developed” countries have a lot to learn from some of the ways health care is delivered in “developing” countries"
Woah woah woah, don't lump us with the USA. Even among developed countries America's healthcare system is an outlier.
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#6America is the country staying in the private room subsidizing all the other patients.
What do you mean? Are you honestly saying that medical care is provided for 95% of the planet at a voluntary loss and that the exorbitance of the US market is the only thing that keeps the companies solvent?
Really?! They are intentionally in the red, everywhere else, and make up for it through overcharging the US market?
Do the local hospitals in Bangalore franchise to the US to do so? Do the nurses go on extended holidays to make back all the money they lose? Do the pharmacists go home and night and pack boxes headed for the US so they don't continue to go into debt? Is that how you think it works?
That would probably explain why my GlaxoSmithKline stock is yielding a 6% dividend. Cause they are just that broke.
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#7America is the country staying in the private room subsidizing all the other patients.
What do you mean? Are you honestly saying that medical care is provided for 95% of the planet at a voluntary loss and that the exorbitance of the US market is the only thing that keeps the companies solvent? Really?! They are intentionally in the red, everywhere else, and make up for it through overcharging the US market? Do the local hospitals in Bangalore franchise to the US to do so? Do the nurses go on extended h…
I think it happens with medicines though not voluntarily. Basically in the US the drug companies have bought out the politicians so the price of medicines are sky high. Meanwhile in many countries like India, the government has negotiated or busted patents to get affordable medicines. The drug companies can live with this as long as Americans pay for the full cost of medicines.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean? Are you honestly saying that medical care is provided for 95% of the planet at a voluntary loss and that the exorbitance of the US market is the only thing that keeps the companies solvent? Really?! They are intentionally in the red, everywhere else, and make up for it through overcharging the US market? Do the local hospitals in Bangalore franchise to the US to do so? Do the nurses go on extended h…
I think it happens with medicines though not voluntarily. Basically in the US the drug companies have bought out the politicians so the price of medicines are sky high. Meanwhile in many countries like India, the government has negotiated or busted patents to get affordable medicines. The drug companies can live with this as long as Americans pay for the full cost of medicines.
No way. There's thousands of drugs companies which are not global and do no business in the US. They operate in the black, at profit, like any other company. Collective bargaining rights won't put them out of business. That's so false.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it happens with medicines though not voluntarily. Basically in the US the drug companies have bought out the politicians so the price of medicines are sky high. Meanwhile in many countries like India, the government has negotiated or busted patents to get affordable medicines. The drug companies can live with this as long as Americans pay for the full cost of medicines.
No way. There's thousands of drugs companies which are not global and do no business in the US. They operate in the black, at profit, like any other company. Collective bargaining rights won't put them out of business. That's so false.
Do you have a list of these thousand drug companies and the countries they are located in?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
No way. There's thousands of drugs companies which are not global and do no business in the US. They operate in the black, at profit, like any other company. Collective bargaining rights won't put them out of business. That's so false.
Do you have a list of these thousand drug companies and the countries they are located in?
Orion Pharmaceuticals in Finland gets only 13% of it's revenue from N. America.