Any time someone dares to suggest that U.S. pharmaceutical pricing is out of control, pundits (often paid pundits) work themselves into a froth about new drug d

Any time someone dares to suggest that U.S. pharmaceutical pricing is out of control, pundits (often paid pundits) work themselves into a froth about new drug development. I'm tired of subsidizing drug development for the rest of the world. Let's manufacture and sell drugs in the United States at a rate that maximizes social welfare. Industry profits and R&D costs can rest on someone else's back. If no new pharmaceutical was ever funded by private research money ever again, but we could control pharmaceutical costs, that would be just fine with me.