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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
That is whats going to happen here. People are going to live the fat life for 30 or 40 years and then when life catches up to them they are all going to go to the doctor and ruin the "free health care for all" system.
There is a difference between a better life and longer life expectancy.
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Many of the surveys done of peoples happiness have shown people were happier in the period between 1920-1940 than they are today (recent years), perhaps stuff and income level have less to do with happiness.
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
If socialized health care is go great then why to do rich canadians come to the US for advanced treatments?  |
It is not uncommon for rich americans to go to Germany or Japan either.
And canadians who do come to the us almost always have special insurance because most of them are TRULY AFRAID of being in the us medical system and its assicociated massive costs. (1/3 of GDP)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Few countries put up the money or have companies that will put up the money to R&D safe new Drugs.
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LoL, few drugs are safe or very new, we spend millions on making slight modifications of existing drugs.
When ethicy reviews have been done 75% of the drugs on the market were found to be
1. Dangerous
2. Ineffective
3. Contaminated
4. Misprescribed
and that is not overseas either. The phrase, No place in any market, as the board said I believe fits most of what is forced down our throats, physiciatric drugs are the biggest scam.
3% effective is considered a resounding sucess.
The truth of the matter is, we really only have roughly 75 very effective drugs on the market with many iterations of the same, the rest are garbage.
We perhaps are wasting our time and resources on a lot of garbage with only a handfull of individuals making truly effective drugs, most of which were designed prior to 1985.
Ah well.