> The pharma industry COULD do their own foundational research, but the university system cannot bring a drug to market. You can't use an "in theory" argument

> The pharma industry COULD do their own foundational research, but the university system cannot bring a drug to market. You can't use an "in theory" argument for one side but not the other. In theory governments could bring medicine to market, in practice they don't/can't. In theory pharma industry could do foundational research, but in practice they don't/can't.