[lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution?

Mycos mycos at shaw.ca
Sat Aug 6 18:57:10 PDT 2005


Gar Lipow wrote:
>>Gar writes:
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> Why are the differences you chose not to quote unimportant:
> Administrative costs are higher as percent of TOTAL costs in the U.S..
> Drug cost are higher PER PRESCRIPTION for the same drugs. These
> two differences together account for ALMOST ALL of the cost
> difference between average Canadian and U.S. costs. (Remaining
> differences are accounted for by differences in prevenative care due
> to no uninsured in Canada and slightly (very slightly) lower wages
> for Canadian doctors.)If Canada spent as much as the U.S. did on
> administration, and paid big Pharma as high a price for their drugs
> they would spend almost as much as the U.S. Doesn't this pretty much
> invalidate that it is all because the U.S. is the "800 pound gorilla"
> argument.
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It does more than that. If the US is such a financial gorilla, shouldn't it be in a much better position than Canada to pressure big pharma to come through with better prices than their meek neighbours to the north? Yet we see precisely the opposite.

Face it. It's corrupt, morally indefensible, broken, doesn't work, and benefits only the few insiders who have a stake in keeping it the way it is. That is unless one is an ideologue who sees the creeping hand of communism in socialized medicine, in which case they've already lost. Such a pity that they drag others to their deaths with them.


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