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Re:The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill by weego on Saturday June 01, 2013 @02:54PM (#5805377)
You clearly have no experience dealing with NHS purchasing.
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Re:The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill by Avshalom on Saturday June 01, 2013 @03:52PM (#5805661)
If there's one thing governments are famous for it's their brutally low margin contracts with private industry.

... no wait.

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Re:The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill by jellicle on Saturday June 01, 2013 @04:34PM (#5805871)
You can't argue it both ways - "government" can't be totally incompetent and overpay for everything, and also at the same time be driving such a hard bargain that the only place for drug companies to make a profit is in the U.S.

At most one of those can be true (and possibly neither). Which do you pick to be true?

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