The reasoning kind of “we do not pay for the police – why should we pay fro drugs and health care?" is just laughable.
The cost of the police services is pretty stable – usually so nobody needs massive private investment in this institution.
Cost of R &D and new equipment in pharmacy and medical industry by their nature (every time you solve more and more complicated problems). For example, you spend billions and years for the new generation drug- and the result is negative. Then you create another one – and it turns to be detrimental due to side effects in several years (like vioxx) - and you have to pay billions punitive damage. Only charging big, money you can assure the progress. The same with new healing techniques. They replace MRI complexes every two years – the government health care even don’t have old ones in proper numbers …

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