Re: US med. industry are ripp-off compared to Europen system

"George Conklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Riku Simonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> 
>    Thanks Riku.  The medical-industrial complex in the USA has produced a
> system and educated individuals into the thought that medicine is a way to
> make a lot of money, fast.

Why not create publicly controlled system to US like in Nordic
Countries. There government sets maximum price limits to medicines
from which government subsides considerable part of. If price is too
high, there will not come any public subsidy for patient. That has
lead to situation where 95% of medicides are below maximum price.
There is also new innovation, that pharmacy must give
to patient cheapest generic medicine to patient with original medicine
recipy.
That has saved A LOT of money and lead to intensive price war. For
instance
Valium (diazepam) costed before 7 euro per 30 tabs. (5 mg), generic
Medipam costs just 3 euro and similar Valium in US online pharmacys
tens of dollars.
What a price difference!
This maximum price control saves a lot of tax money and also patients
do not have to spend excessive amounts of money for their medicines.
Your free pricing system benefits only medicine industry and
pharmacies. It is not wonder that US spends many times more money to
healthcare per capita than European countries where everybody has free
health care system. European system is simply better for anyone except
medicine industry that has slimmer profits than in US.

Riku

Riku