[scotty79]

> I think the reason you want them connected is the ability to channel private capital towards achieving medical progress.

And yet, despite having that connections, not only in the medicine but in all branches of technology, most impactful discoveries of last century come from tax funded university research not business.

Business is best at researching how to reduce the cost of manufacturing and distribution of a thing. Which is very important by itself. But when it comes to finding new stuff business usually falls short because it's too risky.

> inherent and huge pot of money

Size of this pot of money is direct result of how much the company will be allowed to charge for the drug once it's discovered.

Comapnies are so risk averse that you have to make this pot of gold disproportionately huge by allowing them to charge whatever they will manage to squeeze out of the market.