re: #264 Kruk

Of course, but it seems to me he’s already paying taxes (including some that go to other people’s health care), his insurance premiums*, and an $100 co-payment. Americans as a whole pay far more for their healthcare (both per capita and as a portion of GDP) than people in other countries.

*which, if he’s employed, includes an employer contribution that might otherwise go to his salary, and an a tax credit that his own taxes are subsidising.

Not that I can prove it, but I have always suspected that if/when America goes to a governmental system, drug companies will have to choose between not doing as much research or raising costs to other countries. This already happens on a smaller scale here where we are all paying for the low government payments for medicare patients by means of cost-shifting.