>A universal health care system would level the playing field allow all
>those who needed the drug to receive them, regulate prices so their is a
>relationship between the cost to produce the drug and the price charged,
Production is not the problem, Leland. It is the development costs. Consider
how many potential attempts have to be made before a workable drug is found,
then the costs of the trials to prove that it works. This is where the money
is spent. Who is going to pay for it if a drug goes through the trials and is
found to be unsafe. All that money is wasted. So if drug companies are only
compensated for production... who will pay for development, the government...
heck no! the taxpayers will. To make things worse, a whiny constituency will
skew the dollars spent as we see with AIDS and diseases that harm far more
people will be pushed to the back. The Soviets were big on centralized
planning and we've seen how well that worked.
Pete, your comments about the bean counters in the insurance and medical
community are well taken. My defense of the drug system does not mean that I
think many of them are nothing more than the scum of the earth. As for
believing that the system would be responsive to the voters, I have to point to
the illegal immigrant situation where better than 70% of the US citizens want
the border secured and neither party is giving us more than lip service.
Larry Miller
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