[CedarDave]

The society has been warning that drug companies are not developing enough new antibiotics to avert a crisis.

Oooh, those nasty drug companies aren't doing enough research. And when they do the research and a new drug comes out these same nasty drug companies are blasted all over the map for charging $$$ for it. Do any of these folks see the cause and effect here??

[rellimpank]

(sarcasm)---and all the evil drug companies are interested in are profits. Let's put them out of business so there won't be all these expensive drugs---has the side effect of letting all the greedy geezers die off which also solves the Social Security problem---

[EEDUDE]

I believe your premise is flawed.

The main reason that these drug companies are not working on antibiotics is that they are administered short term.

They are focusing their efforts on drugs which are for chronic conditions. There's a lot more money in that.