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minus-squarecynar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 months agoThe bigger one is to decouple development from manufacturing. Development should be done on a bounty type system. Both countries and individual groups can put money into bounties. Once the bounty is claimed, then the drug is effectively free for all to produce. This lets us leverage capitalism to push prices down. This would reshape drug development from max money, to most needed.
minus-squaremapiki@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI like this - but would companies that fail (in being second) not get credit for their work? You could imagine the second place actually having a more effective product at the end.
The bigger one is to decouple development from manufacturing.
Development should be done on a bounty type system. Both countries and individual groups can put money into bounties.
Once the bounty is claimed, then the drug is effectively free for all to produce. This lets us leverage capitalism to push prices down.
This would reshape drug development from max money, to most needed.
I like this - but would companies that fail (in being second) not get credit for their work? You could imagine the second place actually having a more effective product at the end.