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You are ignoring what EE countries spend on training countless health care workers who then emigrate and work as cheap and highly educated in the West. And hea
by nickpp 5y ago
You are ignoring what EE countries spend on training countless health care workers who then emigrate and work as cheap and highly educated in the West.
And health care cost increase exponentially with quality, not linearly. Bleeding edge research and medical advances appear in the USA mostly. And mostly everybody enjoys the fruits.
- oblio 5y agoI keep hearing about US research but Europe has huge pharma companies: Germany has a bunch, France some more, Switzerland, the UK. The US has a very parasitic healthcare system so I wonder how much their expenses are for actual research.
- thehappypm 5y agoThe US’s pharma have done a ton with pandemic medicine. Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Novavax, Gilead, Merck..
- oblio 5y agoBiontech researched the Pfizer vaccine. It's a German company. AZ is British.
- thehappypm 5y agoPfizer developed the treatment Paxlovid.
- oblio 5y agohttps://www.voanews.com/a/european-drug-regulator-recommends-two-new-covid-19-treatments/6357712.html https://www.voanews.com/a/european-drug-regulator-recommends... The first one is Swedish and the second is British. The US is much better at creating visibility for its accomplishments.