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That's not how it works. Commercialization of drugs from University research is what already feeds a multi billion dollar industry.
by shaftoe 8y ago
That's not how it works. Commercialization of drugs from University research is what already feeds a multi billion dollar industry.
- adrianN 8y agoThat's how it could work.
- chrismeller 8y agoHow exactly do you see a system working that way? We establish a single payer plan and just start taxing everyone based on the current estimated healthcare expenditures and blindly shove money at universities?
- adrianN 8y agoYou shove money at universities and don't patent the drugs they come up with so that companies can compete on the price of manufacturing them.
- vonmoltke 8y agoThen why restrict it to public universities? Give private universities and pharmaceutical companies funding as well, with the stipulation that research resulting from that funding be public domain. Public universities are not special entities in this (which is the GP's point).