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> And it's not like we have a good alternative to that - "let more people die earlier" is not an easy sell

Decreasing big pharma's quarterly profits is not an easy sell, you mean?

Or are we supposed to pretend any of this has to do with concern over people's well being?

First, selling generic antibiotics isn't the money-maker you might be imagining. A lot of them are made overseas.

Second, try to convince a random family that they should withhold antibiotics and let grandma die of pneumonia and report how that conversation went.

Keeping old sick people alive as long as possible is absolutely the money maker for big pharma.

Part of keeping old sick people alive is generic antibiotics.

Therefore, we will continue to have them.

It has nothing to do with what people who have no power think, feel or do.