Not OP, but no - the profit motive is the main perverter of the pharmaceutical industry. By talking a profit you ensure that your cancer treatment will not cur

Not OP, but no - the profit motive is the main perverter of the pharmaceutical industry. By talking a profit you ensure that your cancer treatment will not cure cancer - too few people will have access to cure the disease and millions will still suffer and die needlessly. I guess a few rich, first worlders would live, so it's not all bad. People celebrate Jonahs Salk because not only did he develop the polio vaccine but he rejected his opportunity to massively profit from it because it was more important that patients have access. No company that develops a cancer cure these days would do that. Their shareholders would revolt, their boards would fire their exeutives, their stock prices would plunge, and their competitors would pile on.