Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by nickpp on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:28AM
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You are ignoring what EE countries spend on training countless health care workers who then emigrate and work as cheap and highly educated in the West.
And health care cost increase exponentially with quality, not linearly. Bleeding edge research and medical advances appear in the USA mostly. And mostly everybody enjoys the fruits.
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by oblio on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:55AM
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I keep hearing about US research but Europe has huge pharma companies: Germany has a bunch, France some more, Switzerland, the UK.
The US has a very parasitic healthcare system so I wonder how much their expenses are for actual research.
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by thehappypm on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:02AM
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The US’s pharma have done a ton with pandemic medicine. Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Novavax, Gilead, Merck..
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by oblio on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:38AM
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Biontech researched the Pfizer vaccine. It's a German company. AZ is British.
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by thehappypm on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:43PM
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Pfizer developed the treatment Paxlovid.
Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
by oblio on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:28PM
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https://www.voanews.com/a/european-drug-regulator-recommends...
The first one is Swedish and the second is British.
The US is much better at creating visibility for its accomplishments.
The other ones are even worse, Moldova's GDP per capita is 1/20th the US one. So probably 30 times more money spent by the US on healthcare.
It's like comparing a maglev train to the original steam locomotive :-)