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Here's another way - socialize medical research funding, at least for antibiotics. Antibiotics are inherently less profitable than other drugs because doctors
by rsheridan6 17y ago
Here's another way - socialize medical research funding, at least for antibiotics.
Antibiotics are inherently less profitable than other drugs because doctors try to avoid using new ones so that the bugs don't develop resistance to them. By the time they're freely used, the patent might have expired, as patents of the kidney-killing drugs mentioned in this article have decades ago.
I don't really see a good market-based solution here.
- gort 17y agoAnd even if they do get used they heal the patient; whereas the most profitable drugs are the ones requiring continued use.