Oct 21, 2010

Y pensar que muchos proponen un sistema estatizado de salud para controlar costos

Gracias a las distorsiones de precios que caracterizan a los maravillosos sistemas socializados de salud que privilegian la solidaridad sobre el lucro, los medicamentos genéricos son 90% más caros en Canadá que en EEUU:

Canadian prices on 64 generic prescription drugs available in both Canada and the United States were 90 per cent higher on average than American prices for the same drugs, according to Canada’s Drug Price Paradox 2010.

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Importantly, the study also found that retail prices for generic drugs in Canada were 73 per cent of the price of their brand-name equivalents, compared with just 17 per cent of the price of their brand-name equivalents in the United States.

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