They don't have to, the pharmicutical companies will do the research. That's the way it should work. It's a shame that aspect of the arguement hasn't been addresed. We may need to government to get us to the moon or fund the Manhattan Project, but drug research? Let capitalism work.
The capitalists are not going to fund useless research.
Let capitalism work.
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Thank you. Geesh, I feel like my head is going to explode when there is "debate" on non-issues, of unrelayed facts. The Plame deal is another perfect example. The real question is should our middleman, the Goobermint, give our money to people to research this... if you are Independent, Conservative, have any economic background, common sense, are not on the dole, the answer to the above question IS NO about 97.6% of the time, completely independent of the topic. The other 2.4% of the time, we can sit down and have a discourse. Gosh, who is in charge of "framing the debate," because I would like to thank them a pantload.