[JoeAltmaier]

Ha! Like they've been innovating in antibiotics for 40 years? In case folks have not been paying attention, zero innovation occurred there.

Currently its all about restless legs and secondary asthma relief and snake-oil mixtures of drugs rebranded under goofy names.

The drug companies have largely abdicated their responsibilities. For profit. What remains are money-making shells. Can't we just do without them? They are adding friction at this point.

[cheriot]

Antibiotics do provide a good case for increased public research. I suspect medicine will always have parts that are done better publicly and others better in private hands.

For example, a tour guide in one poor country I visited mentioned that he knew guides that were trained doctors. Because good tour guides there make more money than doctors. Coincidentally, they also have a shortage of doctors. Kind of like America having a shortage of teachers when governments set the salary.