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They already do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health https://en.wikipedia.

They already do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration#Science_and_research_programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration#S... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_for_Healthcare_Research_and_Quality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_for_Healthcare_Research... It clearly ain't working.

bshanks 11y ago
Yes, but often the government research money doesn't pay for the goverment-mandated clinial trials. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754886 for details. So the parent's proposal to have the government entirely fund bringing drugs to market, including paying for 100% of clinical trials, would indeed be a (large) change to (and possibly an improvement upon) the status quo.