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« Reply #50 on: January 04, 2011, 05:20:46 AM » |
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« edited: January 04, 2011, 01:54:04 PM by anvikshiki »
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Gweithwr,
I agree that the notion of healthcare "models" is a useful abstraction at best and that one can never just import one model tout court, especially in the States where we so often regularly assume that our habits and acquired expectations = the only correct way to do things. On the other hand, in the mid-'90's, Taiwan did a major study of different ways nations handle health care coverage and developed a hybrid approach for itself. Models may be useful fictions, but we can still learn from them in crafting improvements.
Torie,
Every major study I'm aware of confirms with what you are saying about price controls. As mentioned, I neither believe that the U.S will ever adopt some of the major elements of other health care systems nor that it's a good idea to de-incentivize pharmaceutical R&D in the U.S by imposing price controls on that industry here. I have not studied this aspect very much, but at least at first glance, I do think the fix you have in mind for prices for medicines makes sense.
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