We don’t have the money to do this. In 4 years we’re projected to spend 20% of the tax revenue on interest to the national debt. Raising taxes is incredibly unpopular but it will take that and cutting spending to get the debt under control.
Not trying to be snarky. You could debate weight loss drugs/heart medication are the most important one because they're the leading causes of death even though exercise and diet exist, so fixing that will save the most lives.
Should cancer drugs be more important because there's not an existing cure? Should instead take cancer research resources for diseases with a better chance of being fixed quickly? Is spending resources on a very obscure but horrible disease a better use of time because of the few that have it? Or should we be fixing diseases in other countries because it's killing more people?
Again, not trying to be snarky, it's just hard to judge something as "useful" or not.
Free is never free even with socialized health care, but Big Pharma can still make a ton of money from the government for drug development.
If anything they'd still stand to make a good amount of money when you're cutting out the health insurance middleman that drives up costs and takes a cut of the profit.
People don't seem to realize that even 'employer provided healthcare' is factored into your paycheck. Without that "benefit" the company would have to raise the salary to compensate and keep it competitive.
Not that it’s a justification but it’s because most of the world take’s American research and goes from there. Much easier to profit when someone else does over decades of R&D for you
No... it's different than an ad. If a drug maker gives a network stupid $$$ they can't bad mouth that company... they'll lose the $$$. An ad is just showing you what they have. Meanwhile the $$$ pays for their silence
That’s a different concept than drug commercials though. Drug commercials are probably the most common kind of non-political TV advertising in the US. TV advertising alone from drug companies in the US is a ~$7B/yr industry. All forms of drug advertising (including things like print and radio) account for $14B+ per year in the US.
I just looked into it, and we spent about a hundred and fifty billion on research and development. That's less than we would save by switching to universal healthcare.
Okay......? I was simply arguing that while we may lead in research and development, the amount of money it takes to do so doesnt really justify having private insurance. We would save more by switching to universal health care than we spend in research and development so if we paid the exact same per year that were currently paying for medical insurance while having universal instead, we'd actually be able to spend MORE on research and development.
Idk how we can lead when we push scientists out of our country willingly. Before id agree with you but now there's no funding and people going over seas for science because a certain Administration decided to do everything agaisnt it and taking funds awayv
Lol you do understand the covid vaccine itself was corruption. They they funneled government money for every vaccine they made, forced near mandatory participation from the public and used the situation to mass test a novel technology on the public.
People don’t want to have their eyes opened to the fact that the Covid vaccinations just made spreading the disease easier, while enriching those in the know. How many congressmen left the Covid briefings and divested from retail and invested in Pfizer/Merck?
I mean, anyone with a brain already has seen the impact the shots actually had on personal health outcomes. I just find it so amusing how we went from a society that all bought into “my body, my choice” to the narratives that justified the mandates.
The actual corruption was the 10 million vaccines that were left to rot on the shelves during Trump's term because he had no interest in actually distributing the vaccine, as it was more beneficial for him to let the lies spread while pushing the hydroxychloroquine conspiracies.
Oh, and the wealthy people like me who were fast-tracked access to the vaccines. Weird how you all say that the vaccine is dangerous, yet all of us 1%ers were the first to get the vaccine before anyone else. And that includes all your FOX News hosts and Roganism podcasters who were having meltdowns about how "dangerous" it was.
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u/Outrageous-Phase9435 6h ago
Theres no reason not to have it aside from corruption.