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by toomuchtodo 3265 days ago
When a manufacturer sets the price, they want to recoup the costs and then make a profit on each unit sold.

When a government funds the research, the marginal cost for each unit provided is time and materials, with no profit.

Government funds projects every day that are waste, spending tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars. We can continue to pour money down the F-35 drain but not provide healthcare? Make America Intellectually Honest Again