Posted by baseball55 on September 1, 2017, at 19:12:21
In reply to Re: Sorry - new thread actually-drug prices, posted by linkadge on August 31, 2017, at 9:24:55
Yeah. Let's not get into this again.
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> I won't argue too much - I'm a 'pro-business' conservative, we've had discussions before :)
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> However, to the extent that for-profit hospitals are making too much money, competition is encouraged to provide services for less.
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> In Canada, new services only open up to the extent that the government is willing to pay for them. It is impossible for a for-profit hospital to open up in a region where the competition is free.
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> Also, while there may not be as much profit in our system per-se, profit is only one part of the total cost. Waste is the bigger cost in a system where ER care is free.
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> Painful hangnail? Let's go to the ER.
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