Supposedly a conservative website (FreeRepublic), and there's always plenty of users lament that medicines result in a profit for companies that discover and develop them. The ignorance knows no bounds, nor does it know of the costs and risks that go into drug development.
How many life-saving medicines have been developed by not-for-profit initiatives?
The problem is not that the profit motive exists.
It’s that with the help and support of the bloated (with tax dollars!) government regulatory machine — and the shameless revolving door relationship between the pharmaceutical/medical industry and their supposed watchdogs — the free market nature of the medical industry has totally run amok.
Furthermore — the benefits of medical innovation notwithstanding — the sheer VOLUME of poorly vetted stuff that the medical-industrial complex is pumping into the economy frequently leads to POOR health outcomes through the phenomenon that has been called “medical cascade” or “cascade of care”:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4359663/posts
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752986
Exhibit A is the highly damaging medical-industrial catastrophe we JUST WENT THROUGH as a result of the CCP’s Kung Flu. Or were you asleep through that debacle?