8/ Healthcare innovation used to depend on learning rate delivered by number/variety of care episodes so care correlated with advances. The frontier, in other words, used to coincide with the world of care delivery. Public health WAS the field laboratory.
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19/ Non-private innovations LOOK different: large-scale assembly line cataract operations at "eye camps" in India for example. Or of course, immunization/vaccination.
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20/ The US used to lead on those fronts too about a century ago (eg. Rockefeller foundation work on eliminating hookwork in the US south), but now mostly that's left to "poor" countries.
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21/ tldr of the thread: Don't buy into naive arguments that the US healthcare system is "best in the world" and if your experience of it sucks, it's only because because "other countries free-ride" and you didn't buy enough Big Pharma shares.
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22/ Addendum to point 12: In some cases a net negative societal health condition may be "negatively privatizable" where some other sector (sugar, tobacco) has a stronger incentive to keep the condition alive than the healthcare sector does to cure it for profit.
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