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Excellent article. Thanks for

CVille Dem — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:02:39 +0000

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Excellent article. Thanks for posting it. Krugman s is right on.

I want to add this about the Pharmaceutical Industry: I don't know how it happened, but the fact that they actually made it illegal to get drugs from other countries, such as Canada is baffling and insulting. The claim is that it is in the interest of keeping us "safe" from poorly manufactured drugs, but we all know that Canadian drugs are safe. In fact, I went to Canada year ago and found that I did not have to drive around Canadians lying in the roads from bad drugs. In fact many if not most of the drugs we have here are manufactured in the same place.

An example is fertility drugs, which are absurdly expensive, and occasionally patients in my former practice had connections in England or Argentina and they got exactly the same medications for pennies on the dollar. It is unconscionable that MEDICARE providers are forbidden to negotiate prices with Big Pharma.

It seems to me like changing this unfair practice should be a no brainer, but it has the same thing going against it as all reform: bought and paid-for politicians. What can we do about that?

Oxy, thank you for directing

tmccarthy0 — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:59:57 +0000

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Oxy, thank you for directing me to that Krugman piece. I am going to link to it. He and you are exactly correct.

And of course we can't go backwards. We simply cannot and Mr. Krugman makes all the correct points.

Thank you so much, it's a great piece to back mine up.

Thanks, Tmc. Again, I refer

Oxy Mora — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:22:23 +0000

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Thanks, Tmc. Again, I refer folks to Krugman's article today in the NYT.

Bernie's Medicare-for-all

HSG — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:16:59 +0000

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Bernie's Medicare-for-all plan cuts through all the nonsense and empowers us to set a fair consistent price structure for care. Accordingly, it is far superior to Clinton's politically impossible "Let's make Obamacare better" which leaves all the complexities you decry in place.