Sorry, but you are sadly misinformed. As always. You also have no idea what logic is, let alone what defies it. Your entire post is nothing but unsupported allegations, and as a matter of fact, they are demonstrably false allegations. Changing who paya for health care absolutely does control costs, when the change is from a for-profit payer to the government as single payer, because it eliminates profit and drastically reduces overhead. In addition, it brings Big Pharma's price gouging to an end, since the single payer can then demand, not ask, for reasonable drug costs. BigPharma makes obscene profits (pushing 25% fin the case of Eli Lilly). Please don't embarrass yourself by repeating the moronic claim that the drug companie need to make huge profits to pay for R&D. Those who make that claim prove nothing but their ignorance of accounting. The reason net profit is referred to as "the bottom line" is that it is the last line in a P&L statement. There is nothing below it: no additional revenue (which is at the top of the P&L), and no additional costs (which appear as line items between the revenue and profit) R&D is a cost, and has already been accounted for by the time you get to net profit, and BTW, the R&D costs to Big Pharma are only a third as large as their advertising expenditures. Let me repeat that in case it sailed over your head (In case? What am I saying? Of course it sailed over your head, and did so with sufficient altitude to clear the point on your misshapen and under, if ever, utilized cranium. But i digress.)
The amount the drug companies spend on advertising is triple what they spend on R&D. And why is that? Because WE paid for the majority of the R&D with our taxes, which fund the NIH which in turn and in most cases either funded the research done at university medical centers, or did the research itself, then contracted a pharmaceutical company to produce the drug. In fact, of the 14 most efficacious drugs developed in the last 25 years, the NIH either performed or funded the R&D on 11 of them. The most prescribed cancer drug in the world was developed directly by NIH, and the production contracted to Bayer, who immediately jacked the price up 1000%. So we are paying twice for the drug, once with out taxes, where we clearly received value for our tax dollars, and a second time at the drug store, where we received nothing but a thoroughly unpleasant, old-fashioned screwing. Up our backsides. with no lubricant, and certainly without a kiss.
On what do you base your claim that the US has the best health care system? Beside your usual mindless jingoism, that is? We rank #1 only in health care cost per capita, and 37th in overall quality of health care delivered, behind not only the rest of the G20 industrialized nations. but 17 developing nations as well.
Finally, where trhe hell did you get the cretinous notion that making something available to everybody guarantees less availability. Do you know what an oxymoron is? Look in the dictionary. Do you know what a moron is? Look in the mirror.
