If the US were the only one doing and funding research, then your comments would be accurate. However, in countries with government-sponsored healthcare, research dollars are awarded to labs who don’t work for the drug companies who are working on cures instead of treatment and new treatments that do cure illness are fast-tracked through the approval process – the exact opposite of what happens in the US. Sick people are a US consumer-base that is federally protected. The US healthcare system needs a total overall.
If the US were the only one doing and funding research, then your comments would be accurate. However, in countries with government-sponsored healthcare, research dollars are awarded to labs who don’t work for the drug companies who are working on cures instead of treatment and new treatments that do cure illness are fast-tracked through the approval process – the exact opposite of what happens in the US. Sick people are a US consumer-base that is federally protected. The US healthcare system needs a total overall.