Message from @Arrias

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2019-09-16 20:53:40 UTC  

I'll have a read through it

2019-09-16 20:54:22 UTC  

Here's something for you to have a look at, while I read that report

2019-09-16 20:55:52 UTC  

100 million people with diabetes would cost another 1.5 trillion to treat

2019-09-16 20:56:08 UTC  

Regulate the drug companies, make the drug costs lower.

2019-09-16 20:56:09 UTC  

Easy.

2019-09-16 20:56:11 UTC  

Adding to our already 3.5 trillion spent on healthcare

2019-09-16 20:56:15 UTC  

Like the rest of the West does.

2019-09-16 20:56:36 UTC  

Stop allowing stupidly long patent durations for drugs.

2019-09-16 20:56:50 UTC  

Allow more drugs to be declared "generic"

2019-09-16 20:57:25 UTC  

Its also why we have more medical cures developed and a better cancer survival rate

2019-09-16 20:57:31 UTC  

These are policies which also go with "medicare for all"

2019-09-16 20:57:42 UTC  

Regulation and price control kill research and innovation

2019-09-16 20:57:47 UTC  

Sure, but you have millions unable to afford healthcare.

2019-09-16 20:57:53 UTC  

Millions buying drugs abroad.

2019-09-16 20:58:28 UTC  

And many abroad coming here for major operationd to avoid waiting

2019-09-16 20:58:39 UTC  

Well, well, well.

2019-09-16 20:58:49 UTC  

Who could have guessed a profit orientated healthcare system could be bad.

2019-09-16 20:58:51 UTC  

we also have millions buying the latest iphone instead of saving for financial emergencies

2019-09-16 20:59:02 UTC  

There's 210 billion saved.

2019-09-16 20:59:18 UTC  

There's 19 million people, who no longer need to break the law.

2019-09-16 20:59:21 UTC  

To access drugs.

2019-09-16 21:00:00 UTC  

And there's the USA lower on the HAQ index than European countries.

2019-09-16 21:00:19 UTC  

See here is the fundamental disconnect, we both agree reform is necessary but how we reform it is where the disagreement is

2019-09-16 21:00:54 UTC  

Because our population is high my several orders of magnitude

2019-09-16 21:01:24 UTC  

Also, there's the fact that a healthier population is more productive.

2019-09-16 21:01:41 UTC  

More reason, IMO to support medicare for all.

2019-09-16 21:01:51 UTC  

Make healthcare as accessible as possible, so as many people have it.

2019-09-16 21:02:04 UTC  

Meaning more are healthier, meaning more people are as productive as possible.

2019-09-16 21:02:22 UTC  

Comparisons between the US and Europe are largely not valid for that reason

2019-09-16 21:02:27 UTC  

Wrong

2019-09-16 21:02:33 UTC  

Wrong?

2019-09-16 21:03:03 UTC  

When it comes to healthcare there are three things you can have

2019-09-16 21:03:10 UTC  

Accessability
Affordability
Universality

2019-09-16 21:03:35 UTC  

The more of one the less of the other two you have

2019-09-16 21:03:54 UTC  

Yet in the UK we have all three.