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Re:Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says by gruez on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:46PM (#23864744)
>which follow a centralised model where a central body could collectively negotiate for drug prices

That's orthogonal to universal healthcare or even a single payer system. There's nothing preventing you from having the whole country be represented collectively, but still have private insurers, like in germany. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/how-drug-prices-a...

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Re:Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says by Latty on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:52PM (#23864790)
Sure, that's true. It's not exactly uncommon to conflate a term with the most common/likely implementations known though, which is what I assumed happened here. It is true that universal healthcare could solve those problems, even if it doesn't have to.
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