It feels like there's a lack of imagination here. Could you conceive of a world that was successful in its research of drugs, but was propped up by an economic model other than pharma venture capitalism?
Freedom of choice means you have the right to try to create such a system. As other people can try what they want, VC funding, astrology, etc. It's all legal and competes.
But, if someone is selling a system which doesn't exist yet, but is supposed to be better, but that will only work if we also shut off the one working system first, before knowing... well, I'm skeptical.
But, if someone is selling a system which doesn't exist yet, but is supposed to be better, but that will only work if we also shut off the one working system first, before knowing... well, I'm skeptical.