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I don't have to find a way to come up with all that money. New drug development is entirely optional. The world will not stop turning if we never have another

• refurb 11y ago
  Do you feel the same way about a cure for hepatitis C? Nearly a cure for some blood cancers? Even in the last decade we've made incredible strides in improving human health through drugs. I kinda like the direction we're going.
  • hapless 11y ago
    Some of those strides would still have been made in a world with less private money in R&D research. If the entire private side of the industry dried up and blew away, we would still have great improvements in human health in our future.
    • refurb 11y ago
      Really? Please list all of the amazing pharmaceutical breakthroughs that have come from purely public money. Hell, look who first sequenced the human genome! Public vs. private and private won.
      • wiz21 11y ago
        No private didn't win. But public, that is, you and I, clearly lost.