UglyCasanova wrote:What Americans should have learned from the scandies:
We'll love to do it, when we're not crippled with no national identity and on an economy of scale that's smaller and easier to manage.
So hit us with a few dozen nukes, and we'll be happy to.
You've got the money. The GDP per capita is way higher in the US than in France. You guys just need to pass a law. That's all there is to do. If the lazy Mediterraneans can afford it, the brave and hard working pickup drivers should be able to right?
UglyCasanova wrote:What Americans should have learned from the scandies:
1) Leslie Knope is clearly a Swede.
2) You have no crumbling evil global empire with which to substantiate your claim, therefore it is wrong. We are the new Vikings, so we took your idea and improved on it, thank you very much.
When is the last time your great national raped and pillaged?
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Disarm D'arcy wrote:
You've got the money. The GDP per capita is way higher in the US than in France. You guys just need to pass a law. That's all there is to do. If the lazy Mediterraneans can afford it, the brave and hard working pickup drivers should be able to right?
I hope you enjoy paying for defense and a much higher rate for health care then.
We're funding not only the crumbling global empire but a large portion of the world's pharma - at the rate you guys and elsewhere in Europe have set, we're getting hosed to pay for it.
Ain't as simple as you claim, but thankfully we didn't get overrun by the Moors in a generation.
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But um... where on earth did you get funding a large portion of the world's pharma??
The world's 25 biggest drug and biotech companies hail from 8 countries, with 15 based in the U.S., 2 each headquartered in the U.K., Switzerland and Germany and 1 in Denmark, France, Israel and Japan.
You realize everything pharma is cheaper here because of scale? A shitload of everything, costly or not, is prescribed to everybody who needs it.
And again, if you want lower drug prices, pass a law. How do you think we do it? Prices are regulated by social security and economic even have procedure to force a drug in the public domain if we need to. Turns out private company like to sell at a low price instead of being forced to renounce all profit in a market of 65 millions potential clients with no trouble financing it.
