[pessimizer]

>Cheap antibiotics will cause a drop in the Most Holy Profits of Our Sacred Corporations

The opposite is true: with bacteria resistant to ancient antibiotics that are out of patent and work in weeks, the only alternative will be treatment for months or years with heavily patented drugs of dubious effectiveness and long hospital stays.

Is that your preferred outcome?

[Fomite]

Not to mention treatment for the side effects. Our last ditch antibiotics are not gentle drugs.