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Greed is a good motivator to make up diseases, fake test results, and to use business tactics to jack up the price of ancient drugs by three or four orders of magnitude.

I see those as an adverse outcomes, so I would prefer a different way of funding drug development.

"The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs"

http://www.cepr.net/publications/reports/the-benefits-and-sa...

"Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs"

http://www.cepr.net/publications/reports/patent-monopolies-a...




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