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Who should pay for the research? .
I think there should be less research, especially along the lines of trying to find new wonder cures. Admittedly, it will be hard for the gov't to intervene. Perhaps eliminating tax incentives and reducing patent protection would help. That is, if a new wonder drug, developed without tax incentives and with limited patent protection, returns the cost of development to the developer, good. But if it doesn't and the developer loses money, then that will be incentive to hold our outrageous drug development costs down or spread them around the world more evenly.
I'm particularly annoyed when a new "wonder drug" under patent protection sells for big bux here in the States but later is quietly introduced into other parts of the world for less money. If I recall correctly, bringing these drugs back into the USA is discouraged by FDA and other rules. A big scam IMHO.
Rearch into cost reducing current drugs is OK as long as the resulting reduced manufacturing costs more than offset the cost of the research.
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