| Final-Fan said: For your first question, that's not the way the private sector is wired. I think that nonprofits/gov'ts have done plenty to benefit medicine, thank you very much. And if the internet was left to for-profits, it probably wouldn't exist at all, let alone in its current state of development. Look, if you're thinking I'm trying to say that being nonprofit would make any and all organizations automatically more effective, I'm not. But I'm calling bullshit on your 99%. And for things like heath insurance, I think that non-profit may well be superior. |
You'd be surprised.
Apparently the top 5 US hospitals conduct more clinical trials then all the hospitals in any one country... and the US spends more on research... and the vast majority of useful medical discoveries come from the US.
Most non-profit involvement in research is colleges getting funding from for profit sources.
Whether this is do to the US not having socialized medicine or some other phenomena is unknown... but overwhelmingly chances are the next big discovery that extends peoples lives are going to come from the US.
It's roughly the same odds as saying the next World Cup Winner is going to come from Europe or Brazil. Argentina might do it.
All Goverments and Non-profits really do is handle stuff after the for profit companys get them started. Drug companies will fund college studies with the right to the drugs. Non-profits will secure the rights to distribute and manufactuer the drugs in areas that can't afford them anyway, like Africa. Colleges with government grants will also go to drug companies just because they need the help. Etc.
