Comment by brigandish

> No, the government should set a reasonable price for the product they funded.

Do the investors at the company you work at set the prices for the products you produce? That would be strange.

> Instead, we have free money to bootstrap extractive capitalists, at cost and detriment to people who need care.

It's "free" money because the capital costs are high and it's risky. I don't think it's the only or the best way but it is a valid way, but it doesn't remove the right to make a profit.

As to it being "detriment[al]" to the people who need care, they're getting a drug that didn't exist before, right? And this also should (generally) make existing drugs cheaper, right?