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switzerland has way more new drug patents (per capita) and universal healthcare

• cyphar 7y ago
  Switzerland (unfortunately) doesn't have what I (as an Australian) would recognise as universal healthcare. It's very similar to the "public option" to use the US terminology. It is still closer to modern healthcare than the US, but it's not the same thing (and suffers from problems that other more progressive healthcare systems do not suffer from).
  • stephanozzz 7y ago
    > suffers from problems that other more progressive healthcare systems do not suffer from Can you elaborate? Genuinely interested in the details.
• refurb 7y ago
  That’s because several major pharmaceutical companies are head quartered there - not because the actual research is done there.