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I'm not sure I even understand your point. Bayer and Pfizer, for instance, do lots and lots of business in the US. His point is that Switzerland - like every
by Vivtek 14y ago
I'm not sure I even understand your point. Bayer and Pfizer, for instance, do lots and lots of business in the US. His point is that Switzerland - like every industrialized nation in the world, with one exception - has a socialized health care system, and still somehow manages to have an economy that includes health care providers.
- maxerickson 14y agoThey said "never mind that 5 of the top 10 largest drug makers are outside of the US in countries that have abundantly socialist healthcare systems". If the companies do (significant) business in the U.S., then the mere existence of those companies isn't useful evidence against the fear "that our system will collapse because no one will make medicine in America ever again". The specifics of where the pharma companies are getting their research dollars are more interesting than the specifics of their incorporation. (but I don't personally fear that research funding would go away, and I accept that those companies have huge revenues outside the U.S., etc.)