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Originally posted by seretogis
High insurance rates are not due to a lack of universal health-care -- they are due to greed by "Big Pharms." A universal health-care system would not do anything to lower costs for citizens.
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Actually, it would.
Because in universal health care coverage, the profit angle is removed (theoretically)
Canadians pay less per capita (at the government level) for full coverage than Americans currently pay for medicare, medicaid etc.
The cost of any proceedure is dictated by the government, not those running the hospitals.
No more would hospitals be able to charge $100.00 per tylenol.
They would get 20 cents whether they liked it or not.