I once heard the only country where you could advertise prescription drugs was the US. Is this right? If it is then I think this is part of the reason why we pay so much for medical treatment, and medicine. People convince their doctors they need to get such and such name brand prescription which costs more and that insurance companies will help pay for and raise costs for everyone to compensate. If I'm wrong about the advertising thing just ignore this entire paragraph.
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I hear you. But I hold out one (very) small hope that Medicare struggles to stay solvent because it is a government run program amidst a larger free market health care system. I can imagine that it doesn't reap all the benefits of lower insurance costs and maybe of lower costs in general. Perhaps (I confess that I'm reaching here, so don't beat me up) that if the majority of health care was a federally run system, those benefits might be gained.
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I agree with you mainly because one of the local tv stations here ran a segment about cost of medical procedures at different hospitals. According to the segment the prices of the same procedures varied by up to 200-ish% for the same procedure. With a government run healthcare program the cost should be more uniform... right???