"John H" wrote in message
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Canada is not a great example of same:

" With respect to patient's rights, waiting times and availability of
pharmaceuticals Canada places at the absolute bottom in the rankings.

Canada ranks dead last in the "Bang-for-the-Buck" index (Estonia is
first in the value-for-money-adjusted "Bang-for-the-Buck" index). "

http://tinyurl.com/mxq9ut


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John H


Well Johnny..we have a major handicap...living next door to the US.
We have to pay our doctors, specialists, nurses etc. well (by Canadian
standards) or they can easily pull up stakes and take their subsidized
educations and knowledge to the US for more money.
I wonder how the pay rates for Canada and some of the European countries
compare.
Also, when you had Reagan and we had Mulroney running our countries...the
big US drug companies were hounding us about our generic drugs.
At the time we only gave them a 7 year period to gouge the public before
generic companies could manufacture similar products.
After our 'conservative' government bowed to presssure and bribes (promises
to produce more brand name drugs here) our lackey gave in and changed the
protected time period to 15 years. This dramatically raised drug costs up
here....at who's benefit?