> It is but it's the government paying for it. Basically all new novel drugs relied on public research funds [5 The fact that it was partially government funde

> It is but it's the government paying for it. Basically all new novel drugs relied on public research funds [5 The fact that it was partially government funded doesn’t mean that the drug companies didn’t have to put it in a significant % of their own money. Of course it varies but it’s a bit like saying that e.g. Tesla is/was government funded (well kind of but not really)