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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DWood78828) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Subject: US med. industry are ripp-off compared to Europen system
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> Most U.S. citizens have health care insurance and low co-payments to cover
> their office visits and hospitalizations.  Those whose income is too low
> generally are covered my Medicaid.  Approximatel 43 million people have no
> health care coverage and hospitals generally end up writing them off.
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> The reason for high drug prices is:
> lack of price controls-we are a free market society

Yes, but your system where 30 tab. of 5mg Valium costs 90 USD (in
American internet pharmacy) and here 7 euro tells that lack of price
controls leads not to price competition but to extremely greedy
pricing in US. All european countries have some kind of price controls
because it leads to considerable lower prices. System is simply better
for people. And there is principal point too: medicine are basic goods
which should be available also for low-income system. For instance
here in Finland your maximum level of paying for medicines is 600
euro, after that governmment pays the rest of medicines. And since our
system (see my earlier article) leads
to cheap drugs even before subsidizes, price subvention does not
become too expensive for our government too.

Riku

> impact of health insurance, HMOs, MCPs
> on the population that does not have coverage.
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> Our House of Representatives passed a bill to provide prescription coverage for
> those of us on Medicare.  It is a poorly structured bill and will not provide
> sufficent coverage.

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> Plrase do not take George seriously.  Everything that is wrong with our health
> care, according to him, is a vast conspiacy by the AMA.
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> Denise