@mr_archenemy @GabrielDuquette @St_Rev @sarahdoingthing 16%. The idea that healthcare is a free market with patients as consumers and>
@ProfessorZaius @mr_archenemy Pretty well-established IIRC. I think I read about it on In the Pipeline, McArdle has prob. written abt it too
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@St_Rev@mr_archenemy The US is close to UK and Germany in medical innovation per capita. http://download.pwc.com/ie/pubs/2011_medical_technology_innovation_scorecard_the_race_for_global_leadership_jan.pdf … http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1261198/?tool=pubmed … -
@ProfessorZaius@mr_archenemy The free-riding comes from the regulatory price differentials--pharma can price in US to recapture R&D costs. -
@St_Rev@mr_archenemy And British companies price higher in US too to recapture R&D. This seems like a subsidy from Americans to others. -
@ProfessorZaius@mr_archenemy Yes, this is exactly the point. US patients subsidize the rest of the world's pharma research. -
@St_Rev@mr_archenemy And you're arguing that this is a preferable state of affairs for US patients than an alternative in which they pay> -
@ProfessorZaius@mr_archenemy Because we have the hospitals we have, can't just tear them down & build big open wards again. -
@St_Rev@ProfessorZaius additionally, the notion that levels of care are the same across developed countries is a false one. -
@mr_archenemy@ProfessorZaius Other countries use Soviet-style queueing. Need a hip replacement, wait 2 years, hopefully you'll die first. - 1 more reply
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