[criley]

>What high cost? US companies pay more money for advertising than for creating the drug.

Misleading stat that doesn't look at the full cost of bringing a NME to market.

You're looking at a yearly budget for a company while ignoring reality: drug development isn't yearly, it takes about 8-12 years total. To analyze something on an 8 year cycle using 1 years worth of data is at best ignorant and at worst, intentionally dishonest.

They'll spend almost $1,000,000,000 USD to whittle 10,000 drug candidates into what is hopefully a single FDA approved new molecular entity.

>That's how you get the US sucking donkey's balls in infant mortality rates. As if it was some third world country.

Did you hear that loud crack? It was you smashing your head against correlation/causation. You might want to have that fallacy checked out. Looks bad, man.