> If it costs you one billion dollars to discover a drug This never happens. Generally what does happen is it costs one trillion dollars to do the basic public

> If it costs you one billion dollars to discover a drug This never happens. Generally what does happen is it costs one trillion dollars to do the basic public domain research funded by the people to discover a drug, then some corporation makes a crappy version of one derivative, patents that version, shills it and falsely markets it for the duration of the patent term, and then tries to run away when the damage from the patent emerges (https://longbets.org/855/ https://longbets.org/855/). Source: spent a few years in medical research.