takeru51 on 21 November 2007
| mancandy said: Everyone seems to be an expert in this room. Pretty scared to jump in. Just to be devil's advocate, I will help ripper out. He's making very good points, but most everyone thinks him to be an idiot. Why are healthcare cost so high? The average cost to bring new medine into the market is $800 Million. http://us.gsk.com/html/healthcare/healthcare-common-questions.html#5 I have heard more recently that is more around $1 Billion. Believe all you want about corrupt pharmacutical companies, they need to charge high for medicine in order to recoup spending and to continue further research. No one is turned away from the emergency room. There are a lot of people that come in and go out without paying. Who pays? Everyone else that comes through the hospital doors. I really want people to have healthcare, but I will be damned if the goverment raises my taxes so I can pay for the heathcare of chronic smokers and fatasses that need to take their cholesterol pills with their supersized Coke and fries. |
It actually costs more money and is less efficient for us to use the emergency room as our "free health care." It's not just fatasses and chronic smokers that need healthcare. Many homeless people are homeless because they can't afford their medication for mental illnesses. Some of these people may never be able to contribute, even with therapy and pills, but some could become productive members of society. My dad has to pay $700 a month for just one shot of his medication. He is neither a smoker, nor a fatass.
Medical research is expensive, but why is medicine so much cheaper in Canada than in the United States?
