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by hectorr 3331 days ago
There are a lot of bad reasons for this, and a lot of bad impacts, but there is at least one benefit for humanity: American healthcare dollars create intense competition to do to do aggressive and innovative biomedical research and product development.
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with maybe 10% of products reaching market and a focus on blockbuster drugs, not necessarily those which may save or improve lives