If Obamacare fails, then what?

[Mr Khan]

thranx said:

Mr Khan said:

So you publicly fund research even with no promise that any of that research will be profitable, and phase in the fruits of those researches later when it's financially viable. The financial incentive need not come from the market for the research to occur. If it's really everyone else piggybacking off of American research, then build a global medical research fund.

There is no political problem that lacks a solution, you just have to muster the capital.

which is what is being done in the US. the rich are paying for life saving medical advances that the poor cant, these advances eventually help everyone. The other option is to let some arbitary person decide whats important and what isnt. How is that better?

Because the "persons" in this case (likely a panel of medical experts from all over the world administering how a centrally deposited research fund would be spent) will make sure that the advances are for the good of everyone from the start rather than merely the wealthy.