Originally Posted by djplong

Right now, it's quite common for the government to require that any business that wants to sell goods or services to the government give the lowest prices. In other words, you can't give a better deal to another customer - the government is supposed to get a deal equal to the best available.

What if the government, in their "takeover" of health care said that pharmaceuticals could not sell to the "public option" for a higher price than is offered to foreign governments?

I mean, isn't this what your insurance company SHOULD have been doing for you all these years? Instead, you get your premiums hiked and your co-pays go through the roof.

There's a lot of different areas that need to be addressed in health care - and this is only one of them - but I'm tired of subsidizing R&D for the rest of the world.