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by tl 721 days ago
> There’s so many areas of medicine where we don’t see progress because the ROI just isn’t worth it. Do we want to risk making all medicine like that?

You can have a market for R&D and see progress. You cannot have a market for lemons and expect the same. For every Ozempic, you can expect one or more Nexium, where the company (AstraZeneca in the case of Prilosec/Nexium) uses the first research win to pretend to have a second win (or third, or fourth, or even first because acquisitions) using marketing and distribution channels to bury the cheaper med.