Originally Posted by Brutal
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+1 Derid's post immediately preceding Brutal's.

Sini, you're ignoring Derid's point about the U.S. carrying the lion's share of developmental costs for medicines and treatments. It's all well and good for other countries to boast about how much less they spend on healthcare (ignoring that quality/availability of care are lower), but you cannot ignore the fact that the largest leaps forward (until very recently when others began climbing onto the shoulders of medical researchers in the U.S.) have been made by the profit motive in the U.S. Even the Huffpo agrees. What happens to the entire world's level of care and pace of advancement when that motive is removed? When government is in charge of advancing medicine you get this. HOORAY!


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