I am not sure you are aware of the immense costs to develop new drugs for diseases. At least that’s what your comment sounds like, making new drugs. To do that as a state entity is completely unrealistic as it would take a massive investment from the government. Most drugs developed also fail at some stage of the process, meaning you lost all that money and work on it.
Now, if you meant that the government should produce already established basic drugs that are known to work, sell those at cost, yes, that would be a very sensible approach.
Yeah, how many different vaccines was that? Now multiply by however many different diseases you want to cure and take into account that some diseases require medicines to be tested in very lengthy clinical trials.
That is still a huge step up from the 31.6 billion you quote.
Yeah I get what you are saying, you are not wrong. But I have replied to a different person who said this specifically:
we’d have a research arm of the FDA that was employing scientists/chemists to develop drugs for the most basic health needs of its citizens and dispensing them at cost to keep drugs affordable but developing cures versus disease maintenance drugs
That is not just vaccines for me. All vaccines are drugs but not all drugs are vaccines.
And that is surely way to much to handle for the government. There isn’t even a single large pharma company that does all that.
I am not sure you are aware of the immense costs to develop new drugs for diseases. At least that’s what your comment sounds like, making new drugs. To do that as a state entity is completely unrealistic as it would take a massive investment from the government. Most drugs developed also fail at some stage of the process, meaning you lost all that money and work on it.
Now, if you meant that the government should produce already established basic drugs that are known to work, sell those at cost, yes, that would be a very sensible approach.
The US spent 31.6 billion to develop, produce and purchase covid 19 mrna vaccines.
So the US is already spending a ton of money…
Yeah, how many different vaccines was that? Now multiply by however many different diseases you want to cure and take into account that some diseases require medicines to be tested in very lengthy clinical trials.
That is still a huge step up from the 31.6 billion you quote.
I am not sure it needs to be if the foundation is Mrna vaccines. At least that’s the idea anyway.
I was just pointing out how much the government spent and, it was quite a lot.
Yeah I get what you are saying, you are not wrong. But I have replied to a different person who said this specifically:
That is not just vaccines for me. All vaccines are drugs but not all drugs are vaccines.
And that is surely way to much to handle for the government. There isn’t even a single large pharma company that does all that.