Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Closing Universities Is Creating a Housing Crisis for Students" video.
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@glossygloss472
Lol, not really. Not for the vast majority of Americans. We spend almost twice as much per person and receive equal or worse health outcomes than other countries with single-payer systems.
Also, "most most health science patents" is bullshit because health science has little impact in a country with 40% obesity, almost 70% overweight population. Clearly it's failed, and patents don't translate to effectiveness. It just means companies have filed a lot of patents to make money off people's uninformedness on health.
More pharmaceutical companies isn't good either; most of the patents they file are tweaks of existing drugs to get around patent law. A larger number of companies doesn't guarantee better service, and in America's case there's really only a few.
"Innovation" Not sure what to tell you here, that's not quantifiable so it's not reliably comparable. What does that even mean?
"Cures" again, extremely vague. I get the impression you're speaking from your heart and not your brain.
"The only problem" you described is what we're trying to fix, but you insist that single-payer would do away with all of those benefits, which simply isn't true. Insurance companies might get the boot, but pharma companies will actually be forced to compete for customers and innovate instead of pocketing enormous sums for their executives.
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