I am aware that Israel performs many studies that are banned in the US for various political and moral reasons. There's innovation outside the US. Sure. I am a

I am aware that Israel performs many studies that are banned in the US for various political and moral reasons. There's innovation outside the US. Sure. I am also aware that almost every drug advertised on TV (and available as a treatment) is now narrowly targeted to specific conditions of specific diseases rather than broadly. Yet, even when we were seeing Tylenol and Ibuprofen developed, the arguments for the "expenses of innovation" were the same. I suspect it's hand waving away corruption. The number of large pharma companies going out of business is very small, meaning they aren't assuming risk that would justify the "expense of innovation" reasoning, in the US.