| eab said: I do enjoy how foriengers seem to say "Oh man, Obama or Hillary. I think Hillary will win". No one seems to even mention the Republican candidates, even though McCain currently is doing very, very well in the polls. Anyway, I can't stand Hillary, but I almost want her to win the Democratic nomination since I know Obama has a good chance to win the general election. Obama isn't a bad guy, my only gipe is that both the Democrats want to socialize medicine. Complain all you want about our current system, but if medicine is socialized say bye bye to our medical R&D programs. McCain > Obama >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hillary |
That's an assumption. There's no rule that governments can't spend money on research. In fact, the US government funds over a quarter of US medical research already.
Only 6% of US health expenditures go to research 1, whereas over 30% of expenditures go to administrative costs.2 If the US could bring down administrative costs to Canadian levels by adopting socialized medicine, the 14% reduction in health care costs could be used to triple research expenditures with money left over.
1 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/30983.php
2 http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/349/8/768
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