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But the usa invents most of the new drugs, treatments, diagnostic equipment and so on which i dont think would exist without scientists and companies being moti

• chc 8y ago
  Does the US actually invent more of that stuff per capita? It's easy to produce more stuff than European countries when you have more people than the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Italy combined. (I'm not saying we don't — I honestly don't know. But I've seen a lot of cases like that, where it's easy to miss that one group isn't actually more productive, just larger.)
• dv_dt 8y ago
  The setting of prices and banning of medical advertisement of drugs would eliminate the need for massive marketing budgets which exceed the R&D budgets for the drug industry. Of the R&D budgets spent by private companies, much of it is spent on patent extending repackaging exercises instead of fundamental research. And the OP still hasn't named one nation with fully deregulated healthcare while there are 30-40 OECD nations running much better performing healthcare systems with properly placed gov't controls while the US without is a complete outlier in the data. I don't want to be caustic, but the national data say so much more than hopes for a free market solution in the area of healthcare.