| Kasz216 said: The only problem with nationalizing research is that the US accounts for 70%+ of medical research. You think our military spending is disproportiant... our medical spending is even more so. In fact over the last 30 years or something we have more medical Nobel Prize winners then... well every other country put together. Which is saying something considering how eurocentric some of the other awards like writing are.
Medical research would be so much behind if it wasn't for the US. Which is the biggest risk of the US going full public healthcare. The US private system is keeping the entire world healthier due to the mass competition for profits. |
While I believe you, that the US spends 70% of medical research (a link would even be more convincing though) I think the Noble prize winner thing you brought up is rather flawed.
With a quick look at the list
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/
I just found out, that your universities bring out a lot of medicine nobel price winners, but I don't see any direct correlation with the US going to full public healthcare. How much money was given to those universities from health care companies?
