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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
The United States is, by far, the number one producer of new drugs and medical treatments specifically because of our profit motive. It’s not even close. 

The only reason the rest of the world can afford their socialized healthcare policies is because we pick up the tab for the majority of the R&amp;D, not to mention we provide for pretty much the entire west’s national security. 

If it weren’t for the fact that everyone gets to mooch of the US, their costs would be much higher and they wouldn’t be able to have these nice happy welfare states they spend so much time bragging about.
gpt
Yeah and we pay 100x what these other countries do for that medicine. Further more, a not insignificant ammount of medical research is publicly funded before locked behind the pay wall so we get to pay for it twice. 

At bare minimum socialized medicine gives bargaining power to the people. That's why they pay less for the same thing. Find a way to achieve that without social medicine or heavy regulation and I will support you. Until then I stand behind socialized medicine and heavy regulation.