Comment by BurningFrog
Comment by BurningFrog 6 months ago
The tradeoff with these price controls is that they make current medications cheaper, but make future medications substantially less profitable, making them less likely to be developed.
It's rare to see this mentioned, so I'm trying to build awareness.
You believe in a lie, most of the insane margins go towards sharholders of private laboratories or insurance companies and other parasites. Very little of it goes toward actual R&D, and the foundational part of it is done by public labs anyway, that are payed for by taxes.