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Originally Posted by Ham88
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.
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???
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Yes, part of the plan is to make price uniform. This is one of the huge problems with the system. It's also another reason why states should not run this individually. If there was a mandate to have state insurance across the country, can you imagine the discrepancies? Texas' health care would be wretched (as it is now) and say Washington would have a far better option. This is definitely a federal issue that needs taking care of now, not later.