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Is there any serious research that shows this to be true? In America, the Big Lie that all Americans tell about themselves and their country, is that the US is #1 in everything. And, if statistics happen to show that the US isn't #1, there's always a reason, an excuse, as to why in this instance the US isn't #1, but it totally could be, it just doesn't want to, or it has to deal with some exceptional circumstance that lesser countries just don't have to deal with. To me, the idea that the US subsidizes global healthcare innovation feels just like such an excuse. It gives Americans an opportunity to martyr themselves. "We could have cheaper healthcare, but we bear this burden, for you." Come on. It's a load of horseshit. And even if it were true, why would you accept it? America hates altruism, deriding it as socialism, so much so that "socialized" healthcare is seen as a horrible thing. It's not ok for Americans to pay for each other's healthcare, but it's suddenly perfectly ok to pay for the development of healthcare for other countries?!? You're happily spending healthcare money for the benefit of other countries, but not your own population? This makes no sense. This can't be true. It's a bad excuse to cover up failed exceptionalism, because the truth is simply that a lot of people with money to pay for lobbyists are benefiting from the current system. |
2. Drugs cost upwards of a billion dollars to develop. Plenty of failed drugs cost a billion dollars before they fail. If drug companies don't make money they will stop developing drugs.