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

"Riku Simonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DWood78828) wrote in message
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> > >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.
> >
> > 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
>

   The so-called 'reform' of the Medicare (for old people) in the USA which
was just passed included a provision to make sure drug prices are not
interfered with by government.   The entire system is built on maximization
of profits and nothing is going to change that.  The American Medical
Association is the best union in the world's history in looking out for
profit maximization for its businesses.