The setting of prices and banning of medical advertisement of drugs would eliminate the need for massive marketing budgets which exceed the R&D budgets for the

The setting of prices and banning of medical advertisement of drugs would eliminate the need for massive marketing budgets which exceed the R&D budgets for the drug industry. Of the R&D budgets spent by private companies, much of it is spent on patent extending repackaging exercises instead of fundamental research. And the OP still hasn't named one nation with fully deregulated healthcare while there are 30-40 OECD nations running much better performing healthcare systems with properly placed gov't controls while the US without is a complete outlier in the data. I don't want to be caustic, but the national data say so much more than hopes for a free market solution in the area of healthcare.