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fibber · 02-22-2005, 09:10 PM

The main concern I have with state-run health-care here in the states is the sheer size of our populace. The cost would be ginormous. I could only assume that we would be dependant on the current medical-pharmacutical infrastructure to provide the products and labor involved; which I'm not sure could be done without enforcing huge price-regulation on everything from the factories producing the medical machines, CAT-scans and such, to the doctors wages. That is a huge number of people who would almost certainly be apposed to any such move.

Are there any countries with somewhat similar populations that have attempted any such plans? Is 31,859,845 to 288,904,213 a viable comparison nonwithstanding how entrenched the business of health is in this country? I'ld be interested to see what the biggest country with this kind of plan is. How do we handle intellectual property in the field? Off to google I go........

-fibber

02-22-2005, 09:10 PM	#32 (permalink)
fibber Tilted	The main concern I have with state-run health-care here in the states is the sheer size of our populace. The cost would be ginormous. I could only assume that we would be dependant on the current medical-pharmacutical infrastructure to provide the products and labor involved; which I'm not sure could be done without enforcing huge price-regulation on everything from the factories producing the medical machines, CAT-scans and such, to the doctors wages. That is a huge number of people who would almost certainly be apposed to any such move. Are there any countries with somewhat similar populations that have attempted any such plans? Is 31,859,845 to 288,904,213 a viable comparison nonwithstanding how entrenched the business of health is in this country? I'ld be interested to see what the biggest country with this kind of plan is. How do we handle intellectual property in the field? Off to google I go........ -fibber Last edited by fibber; 02-22-2005 at 09:14 PM..