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If You Wonder Why Medical CURES Are So Rare....; entered at 2012-08-08 23:46:45

Debtpie
Posts: 534
Registered: 2009-12-17

Martha Flockner...whada ya know...another nail in the "free market" medical care/insurance coffin.

A. The "free market" has failed horribly to (affordably) insure anyone that isn't either wealthy or healthy.

B. The "free market" isn't interested in cures as they're not as profitable as drugs that mask the illness...and in many cases cause other illnesses for which there is another pill...

Way past time to shift the focus from (extreme) profits firsts, to results that benefit the patients first.

Single payer system folks; lets look at Taiwan and improve upon it.

Quote:

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Liu Hsiao-ling, a 58-year-old Taipei retiree, has Taiwanese friends who live in Chicago.

When they get so sick they need to see a doctor, they head for O'Hare and hop a plane for a 20-hour, cross-Pacific trip to Taiwan.

"The airline tickets are less expensive than getting treated in the U.S.," said Liu, as she sat in a hospital lounge in Taipei waiting to pick up her prescription. "And they say going to the doctor in Taiwan is much better than in America."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china....

2012-08-08 23:46:45


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