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Re:Single Payer Is Not a Principle- the Principle Is Univers... by trendia on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:50PM (#15020559)
The author says the prices are too high, but doesn't explain how to get the prices down.

I can't find a policy that the author proposes to keep prices down, or any evidence of how a policy would affect prices.

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Re:Single Payer Is Not a Principle- the Principle Is Univers... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:40PM (#15021054)
The article talks mostly about the methods for controlling costs in a German style system.

It doesn't talk much about single payer, but that's trivial. Single payer is a monopsony.

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Re:Single Payer Is Not a Principle- the Principle Is Univers... by trendia on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:15PM (#15021388)
Monopsony requires mutiple sellers (e.g. Walmart can buy potatoes from tens of thousands of farmers)

Pharma patents prevent this.

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Re:Single Payer Is Not a Principle- the Principle Is Univers... by bryanlarsen on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @10:04AM (#15027523)
The article is about health care in general, not drugs.

But you're still in a better negotiating position if you're a single buyer talking to a single seller than if you're multiple buyers talking to a single seller.

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