> diseases that wouldn’t be profitable for pharmaceutical companies

I remember when that observation was discredited as a conspiracy theory

wat10000 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’ve never seen that discredited. Are you confusing the obvious fact that they won’t pursue unprofitable drugs with the much more dubious idea that they won’t pursue profitable cures because ongoing treatment is even more profitable?

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Aurornis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The dubious idea is that eliminating private medical care systems would open up a world of research into treating very rare conditions with high R&D costs.

If this was true, why wouldn't all of the countries with socialized medicine be doing it already?

	▲	paulryanrogers 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The US already was, and to since extent still does. Same in the UK and other parts of Europe. Government funds a lot of medical R&D. Thank them for the fundamental research that lead to the COVID vaccine.

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AdamN an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Where and when?