Research is expensive. It’s too bad that there was no way to help Big Pharma lower their costs on research. I think, if it could make a difference, to start a charitable foundation to pay for research so that Big Pharma doesn’t have to bear the full costs of their research and help them bring down the costs further and faster.
The chemicals for almost all pharmaceuticals is cheap to produce, but the research to find the right combination of chemicals is what is expensive.
Even worse, all that research money goes into a product which the company controls for only a set amount of years (before generics can be created) = so it can be very difficult to recoup costs (and the media will screech if they even try to do so).
There is little incentive in much of the world to do the R&D.