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Old 01-19-2009, 02:38 PM  
chupachups
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Originally Posted by Sly View Post
So you are saying that if a particular pill costs $10 in the United States, it still costs $1 in let's say Germany even if the consumer buys it for one dollar... the German government just pays for the other 9 dollars?
Yes I believe that would be the case most of the times. I would pay the regular price, whatever price f.ex Merck has set on my medicine in this local market, up to a government specified level, and then my spendings would be subsidized.
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