gonna sound like a anti-vaccine nut

[Plane]

     
I did not say that the government would be soley responsible, I said that the government should dedicate itself more to developing affordable vaccines.
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Shure why not?

Vaccines are rarely developed by private companies.

   Aren't most existing vaccines developed by private companies?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Aren't most existing vaccines developed by private companies?

Perhaps numerically, because the most common are annual flu vaccines. I get a different shot as a guinea pig for these each year. But vaccines for the most deadly diseases have been developed outside the US.The French and British governments have developed quite a few.
In any case, vaccines should be affordable.

Companies making obscene profits because they have a guaranteed monopoly on a specific drug of any sort is outrageous.

[Plane]

Companies making obscene profits because they have a guaranteed monopoly on a specific drug of any sort is outrageous.

This is a result of governmental protection of monopoly, which might ought to be less.

There would not be any good done by having a government monopoly .

[Xavier_Onassis]

i did not propose a government monopoly.

Healthcare is not subject to competition, If you go to a hospital and ask how much a procedure costs, they will not tell you.They will ask who is your insurance provider first. The difference in fees can be as much as five times more for one identical procedure than another.

If you are hit by a truck, they take you to the nearest hospital. That hospital will force you to sign a paper promising to pay an undetermined amount. You cannot bargain,as you might die if you went somewhere else.

For profit medicine sucks. It is managed by people who make the sucking worse.

[Plane]

  Not for profit medicine , run by government sucks too.

   There is nothing preventing our government from research in vaccine, only lack of interest.