[tsak]

> US subsidizes most of global R&D for healthcare

Do you have any numbers to back this claim up?

> there's far less flexibility if they are a bad hire

In most European countries any new employee will be on probation for an initial period [1] during which they can be let go easily.

[1] https://www.eurodev.com/blog/probationary-periods-in-europe

[hwbehrens]

Table 3 here [0] provides a breakdown of drug discovery by country and by expenditure. In terms of number of drugs discovered, the US leads with 66%, followed by Canada, the UK, Germany, and Belgium in that order.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10134693/pdf/10...