@mr_archenemy @GabrielDuquette @St_Rev @sarahdoingthing You're conflating "patient" with customer.
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@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. -
@St_Rev@ProfessorZaius Also, if you have cancer, sorry - no one's going to spend money to keep you alive as long as you might like.
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