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by lotsofpulp 1050 days ago
Is it going to be efficient taxpayers pay via increased Medicare and health insurance costs to market/lobby and pay for profits a private company needs to gamble that much on developing a medicine, that may not even be that effective?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/10/politics/aduhelm-alzheimers-d...

Drug companies have the second or third highest profits and profit margins after tech companies. Sounds like a lot of “efficiency” could be gained by taxpayers taking the risk of R&D themselves.