> If this is in fact true it means the rest of the world is freeloading off the US system.
It would be if the US system was in fact efficient and good. But it's not. It doesn't work for the people. It's a huge beast that is out of control and costs billions. It will happily "research" identical drugs, worse drugs or unnecessary drugs if it means it can milk patents for a few years longer.
As it currently stands, it's more accurate to say that drug research in the rest of the world is suffering because it's being dominated (because part of the billion dollar budgets go to marketing) by the US pharma industry, including everything that is broken about it.
If we were freeloading, wouldn't we just take the useful results of your research?? But we get the bullshit too, because yes, your pharma marketing budgets are so huge they do in fact reach overseas.
It would be if the US system was in fact efficient and good. But it's not. It doesn't work for the people. It's a huge beast that is out of control and costs billions. It will happily "research" identical drugs, worse drugs or unnecessary drugs if it means it can milk patents for a few years longer.
As it currently stands, it's more accurate to say that drug research in the rest of the world is suffering because it's being dominated (because part of the billion dollar budgets go to marketing) by the US pharma industry, including everything that is broken about it.
If we were freeloading, wouldn't we just take the useful results of your research?? But we get the bullshit too, because yes, your pharma marketing budgets are so huge they do in fact reach overseas.