Quote:Switching to public health care removes some of those negatives, but it also destroys many of the positive aspects of the American system.
The only positives of the American system are for a)Big Pharma companies, b)Health Insurance companies. unfortunatly those two have quite a lobby so i don't see much hope for fixing it while congress works like a third world Kleptocracy.
a large part of why the cost is so high is also the cost of marketing, the pharmaceutical industry gets 80% of it's revenue from governments, and yet the research and manufacturing of drugs is less than 45% of their expenses, and 2/3'rds of their research is on how to bypass patents held by other companies. Their biggest expense is marketing. it seems to me as if governments could cut back their payments (ie demand lower prices) quite a bit still before governments are just paying for research and production.
Also a big portion of the price is due to monopoly granted by patent, since it's not as if people usually can choose not to pay. It's why many big health plans can demand that drugs by priced at a few percent of what the drug company would price it at, because even at that point the company is still turning a profit by selling the drug.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."