> If you're excluding patented drugs, you're excluding some of the best possible treatments out there. The issue is that allocating taxpayer dollars to the bes

> If you're excluding patented drugs, you're excluding some of the best possible treatments out there. The issue is that allocating taxpayer dollars to the best treatments is bad policy, if you can get better outcomes from worse treatments for the same amount of dollars. E.g. for most diseases the most effective treatments are probably alternative medicine, but it's also probably not cost effective for the government to be paying for everyone to get whatever alternative medicine they want.