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The most expensive drug in the US is Zolgensma — and its early development was funded by taxpayers and charities, NOT industry. All of the riskiest work! 

Why should taxpayers continue to fund research? As a taxpayer, you fund the biggest risk, and your reward for that will be more of your tax dollars used to pay pharma the exorbitant prices they command for the drug you partially funded.

The most expensive drug in the US is Zolgensma — and its early development was funded by taxpayers and charities, NOT industry. All of the riskiest work! 

Why should taxpayers continue to fund research? As a taxpayer, you fund the biggest risk, and your reward for that will be more of your tax dollars used to pay pharma the exorbitant prices they command for the drug you partially funded. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/zolgensma-sma-novartis-drug-prices-gene-therapy-avexis

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I would be open to that for drugs. Anything is better than the status quo

Then they gaslight us by saying the higher prices Americans pay funds the researcher.  We should just abandon patents.

Honestly, maybe they won’t. From this frame the “war on science” is wholly justified. We aren’t paying for things that benefit us. We are paying for biotech investors mansion with stables and a wine cellar

Not to mention the disease research the government subsidies universities to conduct, its actually insane these companies keep getting away with it

my immunosuppressant biologic drug costs $20,000 per dose and i take it every 56 days 💀 (idk who pays what but im on an assistance program so its free?) i dont love how they price things super high as a negotiation thing for insurance companies (that's what i heard , hospitals do something similar for service ?)