BR_Parkway
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Thu Jul-30-09 01:13 PM
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You'd think Pharma and medical equipment companies would be fighting |
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for Single Payer (or at least public option) since so many more covered people = so many more prescriptions written, equipment being used. Even at lower prices, volume should be a benefit to these industries.
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John Q. Citizen
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Thu Jul-30-09 01:19 PM
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1. It's not. They hate that governments can negotiate for fair prices. They spent a lot of |
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money to insure that the US couldn't negotiate prices.
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Thu Jul-30-09 03:15 PM
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2. They Stand To Make Even More If There Is No Public Option And Everyone Has...... |
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to buy health insurance anyway. Big Pharma pledged to Obama $80 billion in savings over 10 years. That's only $8 billion a year. They know that that is a pittance in comparison to what they will be making.
They are in kind of a win-win situation - but they are tying their star to that of the private healthcare insurance industry - where they think they will make even more money.
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Thu Jul-30-09 03:16 PM
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3. Single payer would mean the single payer, the gov., would buy drugs in bulk, wholesale. |
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It's how they do it in most places.
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