"Currently, there's nothing stopping other countries from using taxpayer money to fund drug development locally. Except, by and large, they don't - as mentioned in the article"

Come on!! Hasn't anybody actually read the article?? Unless the economist is showing different articles to different people the only phrase that mentions research implies that is an argument made by the industry and not clear at all. The "the US subsidizes drug research for the rest of the world" is a huge lie that cannot die soon enough.