National Health Care

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

but BG has already shown that we pay close to double per capital in healthcare.

So you are saying we pay LESS? Or are you saying that Canada's costs would HALVE if they went to the US system?

Neither. Our costs are going up no matter which system we use. We like the best technology and the best drugs.

If we went to national health insurance Canada's cost would increase dramatically. They happen to be in a situation where we sell them our drugs and technology at cheaper rates than we could sell it to our own. For example, the price of developing a drug is very expensive but once you have developed it the cost of producing the extra pill is not very much. In America we pay for the research costs of that pill. In Canada they pay the only the cost of producing the extra pill. If prices were fixed then more of that cost would go to canada, cuba, and anywhere else where we sell our drugs.