Around Bryan, though, just about everybody also agreed on solutions. The answers seemed so obvious. If Mike Liu, the Parkview surgeon, was correct that medical care was a human right, then what? Well, you could blow up the entire crazy structure and start over. The United States could create a national health plan, proposed over a hundred years ago. The government could go into the drug business to manufacture drugs that had gone off patent. It could regulate drug prices, especially for drugs that had been created with the help of taxpayer research money. It could shorten patent protection and
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