Posted on 03/05/2020 3:06:10 PM PST by Alex Baker
Profit seeking companies have cured cancer, reversed heart disease, and caused every other advance you can name for the past 100 years of medicine. A tiny fraction of innovation comes out of the NIH or non-profit society grants – and those ideas that are generated would invariably sit on the shelf without the work and investment of profit-seeking venture capitalists and companies guiding the idea through clinical trials, regulatory hurdles, and production. The majority of the profits that provide the incentive for innovators worldwide come from the US, and other healthcare systems piggyback (and rip off) our system to take advantage of the innovation that we provide. In short, the US market and for-profit healthcare industry that serves it is the world’s golden goose for global medical innovations…
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