Could the US adopt models of other countries' prescription drug plans?
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If the US is so bad, why does our health industry invent most of the current drugs fighting disease.
40192
Don't know for sure, but usually medical and prescription drug plans are under the same insurer.  Often they will use another company to administer it.  That may be the case in your situation.
771037
Yes we deserve affordiable health care and drug coverage.  As you say we send billions of dollars to other countries and leave us here back home to dig up enough money for a $75 pill.  Bush stated that he would send billions over to Iraq to aid everyone there to get the health care they need....huh???  What about us.\nWe bring people over here from other countries to have surgeries they cannot get in their countries and they get it for free because we feel sorry for them...huh??? What about the people holding bake sales to help a child in the neighborhood get a heart transplant.\nI could go on an on....rant rant.
104796
probably.  most industrialized countries are heading this way, and there have been state initiatives (like in alaska) to legalize it.
454977
Repuglican idea: screw you get your own. \nDemocrat idea: national health care set up on the order of Canada or England.
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China.\nCheck this link http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpapermaking.htm
830349
Yes, Here's the website I found it.\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2006-10-26-walmart-drugs_x.htm
1124490
they have better prescription drugs for them now.  the govt is making it illegal so we have to buy pills from them.. dont worry... theyll still be able to get high somehow
379511
I think we're potentially heading in that direction.  I don't believe the US will be totalitarian communist, but economic socialists like the French.  France is basically a Marxist nation in terms of its economic policy.  I already see the US trending in this direction.  When did healthcare become an entitlement?\n\nI suppose I'd probably move to Australia.
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Are you thinking of the plan that Montel Williams has been endorsing?  They have been playing the commercial like crazy here in California....\n\nHere is the link to their website: http://www.urbanmecca.com/artman/publish...\n\nThe Partnership for Prescription Assistance (toll-free, 1-888-4PPANOW; http://www.pparx.org) is the only source that provides a single point of access to the more than 475 patient assistance programs, which include more than 180 programs offered by the pharmaceutical industry.
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Canada's government did not fall apart.  Government coordinated healthcare systems are successful in other nations (including the German system, which I know little about, but have heard is probably the best system for the US to look to as a guide).  Health Insurance companies currently waste excessive amounts of money on marketing, administration and other non-healthcare related costs...  That doesn't seem very efficient.
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Answer to Giggly Giraffe--\n\nDo you really believe that the entire "Baby Boomer" generation were all hippies? My mother is one of this generation and she says "Absolutely not!" The Americans who solve every problem by pills are victims of profit marketing by drug companies. \n\nAnd what does your reply have to do with the question of foreign attitudes to US social conservatism?
821669
It's not legal no matter how you buy it, because here it is a prescription only drug.  You can buy it out of country and get away with it. Just don't get caught with it with no prescription.
755865
no, sorry..\nmedicine is only practiced in what is to be presumed a comassionate, yet ethical and moral way..\n\nif society as a whole could all walk into a doctors office and ask for oxycodone or morpheine for a stubbed toe or headache, we would be walking around with a society full of junkies...\ncertain meds have been tested and proven effective for specific disorders and afflictions, so those are what are acceptable and prescribed..
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In the U.S. ?\nSee the link below.
879573
Not legally, at least in the United States.  Mind you, there are places that will either sell it to you illegally (a bit rare, being a felony and all) or have a doctor on staff look over a questionnaire you fill out and then prescribe the drug (much more common).  he FDA is currently looking into requiring any doctor writing a prescription to have a face-to-face consultation with/evaluation of the patient.
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This is very interesting. I suppose someday it's got to happen. I wonder when the US will require or appreciate aid from other well to do countries.