The innovators in pharmaceutical research need large amounts of money to run the studies to show safety and effectiveness of their inventions, to say nothing of

The innovators in pharmaceutical research need large amounts of money to run the studies to show safety and effectiveness of their inventions, to say nothing of the even more hit or miss discovery process. It’s conceivable we could pay for that in a different manner than patents and high US drug prices, but that cost can’t just be handwaved away.