[jasonjayr]

There's a non-trivial amount of R&D being done with public funds (universities, and/or grants) that go to medicines that end up being locked up with patents and privately owned.

[pxmpxm]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

Federal research grants that end up as patents held by US universities and pharma companies.