Re:Pharma CEO Worries Americans Will Embrace Single-Payer Plan
by jerkstate on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:44PM
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My take is that any kind of fair renegotiation removing the regulatory capture and the anti-competitive behavior allowed (and in some cases, required) by decades of lobbying would improve the situation. Single payer would work, free(er) market would work, but we're currently reaping the fruits of generations of entrenched political class for sale.
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Re:Pharma CEO Worries Americans Will Embrace Single-Payer Plan
by ashark on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:49PM
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> Single payer would work, free(er) market would work, but we're currently reaping the fruits of generations of entrenched political class for sale.
Single payer or similar universal coverage systems would be the safe (dare I say conservative?) bet, since we have tons of examples of systems like that working well in countries similar to ours while saving lots of money per-capita over our system. Looks like an easy win.
Messing with our regulations and hoping the market fixes things might work, but it's more of a gamble.