RE: Third parties profiting off of poor outcomes for patients....in AMERICA!?
April 27, 2018 at 2:53 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2018 at 2:55 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 27, 2018 at 2:30 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(April 27, 2018 at 1:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: It's a lot easier for EU countries to have generous social programs while the US basically pays for their military defense now and for the last 80 years.
What does that have to do with health care?
Socialized medicine is just one part of those social programs Europeans get to enjoy because they sit back and let the American taxpayers fund their protection.
American consumers pay full price either directly, or indirectly through private insurance, to fund the develop of new drugs. Then those drugs are sold at heavily discounted prices to countries with socialized medicine. That's just part of capitalism too...drug companies giving bulk prices. I'm okay with that. But what irks me is that people in those same countries with their beloved socialized medicine wouldn't even have access to those drugs if it weren't for the US system of private health insurance and yet they have the gall to criticize our system which basically subsidizes theirs.
