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		pkaye on Nov 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription m... If this is true, what is the point of US consumers subsidizing the R&D is they themselves cannot benefit from it.

lazyasciiart on Nov 17, 2020 [–]

The rich ones can benefit from it, and then it gets added to the claims that the US has the world's best healthcare system that helps convince the rest that the system should be kept.

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