@jgordon @DeanBaker13 I don't concede that drug development is insanely hard, or that there mightn't be much better ways to organize it than the subsidize-most-of-it then let last-stage developers monopolize it.
Nevertheless, that's not the proposal here. The proposal here is to use the public purse to overcome regulatory burdens to bringing already discovered drugs to market, in ways private sector coordinates not to, precisely because multiplying options destroys industry profitability.