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> There’s so many areas of medicine where we don’t see progress because the ROI just isn’t worth it. Do we want to risk making all medicine like that? You can
by tl 2y ago
> There’s so many areas of medicine where we don’t see progress because the ROI just isn’t worth it. Do we want to risk making all medicine like that?
You can have a market for R&D and see progress. You cannot have a market for lemons and expect the same. For every Ozempic, you can expect one or more Nexium, where the company (AstraZeneca in the case of Prilosec/Nexium) uses the first research win to pretend to have a second win (or third, or fourth, or even first because acquisitions) using marketing and distribution channels to bury the cheaper med.