On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:22:36 +0100, Martin Hotze
wrote:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

In short, American health care is better
than Canadian health care.

oh, that's why some elderly Americans have to import medicine from Canada. :-)

The *care* is demonstrably better. Fewer lines, etc. The *drug*
situation is out of control, IMO; the drug companies shifted the cost
of research onto United States customers (and others), since Canada
negotiated its way onto some good longterm prices for medicine.

Personally, I think the price structure for medicine in the U.S. is
rapacious, and being reasonably healthy I don't even have to pay for
any of that stuff. Don't know what the real situation is like in
central Europe, but if my experience was any indicator, acetominophin
and Sudafed was simply not to be found in the apothecaries. People
told me to drink a strong peppermint tea.

Rob

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