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“Much much longer”

Imo all western countries are within the margin of error. The real truth is that the US subsidizes the medical fields of Europe.

The US provides protection; which means the EU doesn’t have to pay for military and they dedicated funds to healthcare. Further, all the drug revenue for R&D recovery comes from the US market.

With the countries of Europe gearing up for war. I’m curious if they’ll keep paying for the medical treatments of everyone.



That makes no sense. The point is that those countries spend way less money for better outcomes and your "rebutal" is that they have more money to spend? And pharmaceutical companies just charge less in these countries because of the kindness on their hearts? Eventhough they supposedly could charge much more than the US because Europeans have money left over?


They charge less because those countries would simply go “no, we’re not going to offer that drug for that price” if the manufacturers ask for too much.

If insurers did that here people would be upset, and with their revenue tied to how much they pay out they don’t have much of a reason to.

All that leads to them making up the difference in the US market.




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