coyotino [he/him]

wow good thing Russia won the US election to end sanctions, then.

Big brains over there in the Kremlin

so much of it is paid with grants anyway, I don’t think pharma companies should keep any profits unless they fund 100% of the r&d for it, which they won’t

This is a strong point. If so much of this R&D is government-funded, then why tf are the drug companies allowed to profit from it? Corporate welfare is America’s only real welfare problem.

Question for my Beeple: If you could pass any law you wanted, how would you solve the problem of runaway drug costs? There is the complicating factor of “the drug companies need this money for R&D for future drugs”, but clearly it’s gotten out of hand.

Barring something comprehensive like Medicare For All, my thought is there should almost be a new regulatory body created for the purpose of tackling this problem. Force drug companies to provide periodic reports of how much a drug actually costs them to make, and then have a regulated maximum profit margin that drug companies are allowed to take.