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Originally posted by james t kirk
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.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Canada determines reasonable price-caps for their drugs. The same sort of thing could be implemented here via the FDA without federalizing all of our hospitals and insurance companies.
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