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Có thật bạn muốn Mỹ tự chủ về hàng y tế?
30 Apr, 2020
giáo sư DON BOUDREAUX bảo người dân mỹ tự trả lời 1 số câu hỏi, ví dụ:
- công ty ở tq hoặc đức phát minh ra thuốc chữa bệnh bạch cầu, thẩm tách thận với giá rẻ hơn thì ko nhập nữa chăng?,
- và mỹ nhập khẩu tới gần 200 tỷ usd sản phẩm y tế, khiến các công ty (ở các nước) có thể sản xuất số lượng lớn, bán toàn cầu, -> giá thành rẻ hơn, giá bán rẻ hơn, lợi cho người tiêu dùng mỹ...;
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3. Suppose that researchers at Sinopharm Group, China’s largest pharmaceutical company, develop – and patent – a blockbuster drug that cures leukemia (bệnh bạch cầu). Should we refuse to import this drug given that importing it would mean that we Americans are no longer self-sufficient in medical supplies? What if a research team at Boehringer Ingelheim, one of Germany’s biggest pharmaceutical firms, invents – and patents – a kidney-dialysis (thẩm tách) machine that sells for half the price of existing machines and cuts each patient’s time on the machine by 75 percent? Should our wish to remain self-sufficient in medical supplies prevent us from importing any of these new machines?
4. In 2019 we Americans imported $193.1 billion worth of medical products. No country imported as much as did ours. Americans’ large volume of such imports, when combined with purchases from the rest of the world, enabled foreign manufacturers to produce, for selling globally, drugs and devices on larger and more-efficient scales than would otherwise have been profitable. Production on these larger scales, in turn, reduces the per-unit costs and prices of many of the drugs that we import.
And so if we were to produce for ourselves all that we now import, our manufacturers will not find it profitable to produce these products on such large scales. The cost to us Americans of producing ourselves all that we now import would thus be higher – likely substantially higher – than the nearly $200 billion that we now annually spend on imported medical supplies.
These higher costs, of course, would raise the prices that Americans pay for health care – a reality that prompts this question: What is the maximum price, in terms of a rise in health care costs, that Americans should be forced to pay for self-sufficiency in the production of medical supplies (or ‘essential’ medical supplies)? Is self-sufficiency worth whatever price we must pay to obtain it? If not, can those who plead for such self-sufficiency give us practical guidance on what is the price beyond which self-sufficiency might no longer be worthwhile?
Bài trước: Có thật Mỹ thiếu hàng y tế?
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