[tomcam]

It stinks, I agree. What economic/social arrangement has done a better job in drug innovation?

[tirrit]

Has there ever been made an effort with any other approach/arrangement, in modern times?

Any sources on this, anyone?

[username223]

Publicly-funded research universities, along with the March of Dimes, funded the polio vaccine, which has almost entirely eliminated the disease, and was not patented.