[UnpossibleJim]

Just before I ask this question, I want to let it be known I am for base healthcare as a public right, as well as public 4 year universities (4 year community colleges, basically) and a low UBI - I've basically become a hippy, somehow, in my old age... I'm not sure how that happened. But with that out of the way, on to my question...

Do you think that part of the reason that America is so attractive to pharmaceutical innovation is because of the obscene profits that can be made in the prescription space that is not only allowed by our laws, but encouraged by our politicians?

If we were to socialize our pharmaceutical sector, which would involve putting caps on pricing, do you think this would make innovation into treatment which involves huge upfront costs in research a non-starter?

Would neutering the profit motive and corporate greed in our pharmaceutical sectors revert our pharma studies back to university programs and corporate tax write offs/good will programs and the occasional government budget surplus when they've decided to not funnel it towards another uneccessary war?