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

"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