"Robert Perkins" wrote in message
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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.


Bingo. There are those who would have the US follow Canada along that path.
Who would US drug companies then shift the cost of research onto?

The surest way to increase the cost of anything is to make it "free".