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=10754

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.