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Mighty pricey, this Prostate Cancer stuff.
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@northoftheborder
I think what you say is substantially correct.
Canada, of course, has what's described as a "single payer health care system" (well, per province), and the US also does have such a system as well, nation-wide, but just for older folks who qualify for medicare. This is why a "Medicare for All " system in the US could make a great deal of sense. That would probably do away with much of the bureaucratic, etc needless layers of duplication and complication. I think Medicare has a greater amount of clout dealing with pharmaceutical companies, certainly, and probably other entities as well, in regards to their pricing.
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@sandguy Yes, once the dust settled, some kind of universal healthcare would save U.S. taxpayers money — pro-rated by population, other G7 countries pay less in tax $$ for universal coverage than the U.S. does just for its limited-coverage public programmes like Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans' benefits — but the challenge is figuring out how to get from here to there.
It would be one of the biggest economic change- management problems in human history, because so much of the U.S. economy depends on the system being the way it is (it's like Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex," deeply tangled into the fabric of the U.S. economy, and it's hard to pull out the thread without unraveling a lot of the fabric 😢).