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>Activists never demand cheaper (or more transparent) health care. They demand state to pay for it!

...it's cheaper that way. That's-- that's why they say that. You can keep repeating yourself, but tell me, what makes almost every other first-world country better at this than the States? How is it that we can pay so much less and have, in aggregate, better health outcomes? It's a mystery!

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You are out of reality.

My country has public health insurance, but gov also works hard to keep costs down. If we paid for drugs like this, the public system would bankrupt.

Perhaps you find this unpleasant, but the reality is that my government is able to dictate terms to pharmacorps such that we do not have to "pay for drugs like this". The whole point is that the exorbitant costs are not the true costs, they're just what you'll get charged unless you stand together.

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