Earlier in my life, I parroted, "without big profits, drug companies wouldn't innovate." I said this despite having had a rare cancer; and, knowing a lot of cancer researchers. Sure, they like money. But, it's rarely their principal driver. Belief systems are a helluva drug.
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I think there are good arguments (and a lot of evidence) in favor of pharma innovation. But, it frequently -- and increasingly -- comes attached with arguments against alternative health insurance structures or against NIH/NSF-style funding or both.
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When people make those arguments, it's ideology scoping acceptable solutions not the quality of those solutions with respect to medical innovation and treatment outcomes. And, when they make those arguments, I think of people like you and the rest of the
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