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empedocles

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4. Big Pharma is powerful enough to have private agreements with big servers, to

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 09:47 PM

Oct 2019

block direct access to seemingly all Canadian pharmacies and their markedly lower priced Rx's.

[Yes, it is possible to work around the blocks, however, I suspect that overall the 'blockade' is quite successful].

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Big Pharma Paid 700 Doctors Over A Million Bucks Each. Tell Us Again How Single-Payer Is Too Pricey? [View all] babylonsister Oct 2019 OP

That $700M could have paid for a lot of actual healthcare. Meadowoak Oct 2019 #1

K&R, HC in US is expensive cause doctors, hospital groups and big pharma are paid too much money uponit7771 Oct 2019 #2

Big Pharma is powerful enough to have private agreements with big servers, to empedocles Oct 2019 #4

It's time blm Oct 2019 #3

not entirely certain single payer would stop this. mopinko Oct 2019 #5

As of about a year ago, and following a public airing in the media, luvtheGWN Oct 2019 #7

K&R Thanks for posting. alwaysinasnit Oct 2019 #6