>Good points although going to extremes.
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>But, like it or not, you are already being "penalized" for living in the US, as an example, if you care, just compare the price of the same medicines here and in other countries, and I'm talking about CAN and Europe, first world places. Pharmaceutical arguments could serve me well to keep arguing here.
>But now is crunching time for me, so I won't go there.
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I get creamed on the cost of meds; I have a number of prescriptions that I'm on indefinitely; the cost, compared to Canada, or Europe, or Mexico, is incredible. One heart-related medication I take, even with good medical coverage and a prescription plan, costs me more to fill in the US under my prescription plan than to fill it in Canada. In fact, it's cheaper for me to get my doctor to write me three month prescriptions for some of my meds and fly to Canada and fill them without my prescription coverage than to fill them in the US under my health care plan, since the meds are not on the healthcare provider's list of approved meds (there are similar meds that are on their coverage, but are not as effective for me.)

>And, at the end, this is M$ decision, I was just trying to show here how reality is in the rest of the world, as much as I remember it.
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>Max