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What the market will bear affects an already existing product. R&D is driven by one of two things: 1. An expectation of profit at the end. 2. A highly desired
by zaphar 2y ago
What the market will bear affects an already existing product. R&D is driven by one of two things:
1. An expectation of profit at the end.
2. A highly desired outcome from a motivated pool of Investors.
Price caps can dampen #1. Which can put more of the burden on #2 as a source of funding. Whether you think that is an improvement or not probably depends on your particular ideological position around markets and healthcare.
But there is definitely an objective argument to be made that this might decrease the speed of improvements in healthcare technology.
- XorNot 2y ago> But there is definitely an objective argument to be made that this might decrease the speed of improvements in healthcare technology. Every American posts about "healthcare improvements" like they're a millionaire and that cancer wouldn't bankrupt them (and then also get them fired from their job when their insurer casually mentions the "bad risk" they've got which is driving up the cost right now).
- zaphar 2y agoThis has nothing to do with the comment you quoted from my post.