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Except the US government is by far the largest R+D spender in the world. Its not like the drugs it fund become public domain. You don't seem to address that at all.

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A quick search on Google reveals that the U.S. biomedical industry spends about 3x more than the federal government [1], or about 67% of the total spending, so your claim turns out to be false.

[1] https://www.researchamerica.org/sites/default/files/RA-2017_...

Nope the us government is single biggest spender. Your own link tells you that. You are including a bunch of companies together. Please stop spreading fake news.

If you include prescription drugs us government spends 329bil. So I think us government is pretty vitial to medicine in this country.

Big Pharm also gets to deduct it's r+d expenses in full. Name an other private industry with that kind of a crutch....

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