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Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare
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I have mixed feelings on this. If the entire world had access to free healthcare, chances are research and development would grind to a halt unless they also funded research and development. Taxpayers would need to be willing to pay a company hundreds of millions of dollars if they discovered a useful product.
...it can work in theory, but I'm not sure if it would work in a democracy. The average voter would demand that money be spent on more immediately useful services. If it did work, however, we would save the billions of dollars pharmaceutical companies spend on lawyers and marketing.
I also believe in free education, which includes research facilities.
You could fund the facilities, but how many people would be willing to get a doctorate in biological chemistry if the only available jobs were relatively low paying civil servants?
Most of the researchers in the pharmaceutical industry were employed as minimum wage workers during their six years in college. We would have to completely overhaul the incentive structure if we expected colleges to replace the for profit industry.
fun fact: I have had a years-long interest into biochemistry since i was 12, and i want to study biology because of it, but i can't; because i don't have the time/money, because i need to get a job now to earn money, instead of spending another 6 years in school.
I don't see why it would. A company would still invest in research if they thought they had a chance to sell it to the healthcare system, for example. It wouldn't be the first nor last time something like that happened, and the latter case isn't too different from how it works already.
Consider insulin, for example. Research into it and drugs for treatment of diabetes doesn't happen exclusively in the US.