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development of new antibiotics is not intensively pursued simply because you take them for a while and then stop
the govt will put controls that severely limit the ability of doctors to prescribe it.
I don't buy the argument that the pharma industry is trying to delay cures.mell says
They may focus on development for drug where most money is to be made vs most lives saved, but they would not stall a cure if they can decently monetize on it.
boss might have been trying to deflect blame for not developing antibiotics.
boss might have been trying to deflect blame for not developing antibiotics.
We have truly horrible incentives at work in our medical system. It will never be maximally profitable to quickly cure patients for a modest cost, so the free market fails here.
This is an excellent argument for government research and government-sponsored treatments. Those presumably would be in the public interest and not profit-driven to keep people sick and paying.