> Research? You could buy a lot of research for the amount of money we’re currently spending on medicine in healthcare and right now we’re really just paying a

> Research? You could buy a lot of research for the amount of money we’re currently spending on medicine in healthcare and right now we’re really just paying a corporate tax to save lives so that some 1%’et can get even richer. You're absolutely, completely, 100% right. That amount of money could buy an incredible amount of research! Right now, the American government institutions that fund this kind of research are infamous for being very risk-averse. They fund research, but do so in a way that takes few chances. Younger researchers get shut out. Researchers chasing novel ideas often get shut out. After all, why fund some moonshot when there's someone with a good track record of results to fund instead? Basically, there's ample reason to doubt that the American institutions in question could actually do better if they were handing out the funding. Oh, and the grant-giving bureaucracy is also infamous.