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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
According to about 3 minutes of googling the US spends about 200 billion a year on Healthcare r&amp;d. Which is a ton, sure, but even if you pushed all that cost on to the EU alone, it would only raise their costs by about 20% at most, given that the EU already spends over a trillion dollars on Healthcare (and that would be without *america* pulling its weight). Even in this scenario their Healthcare would be about half the cost of ours.
gpt
Government spending on healthcare r&amp;d is meaningless, wasteful, and a drop in the bucket. They’re talking about private companies developing drugs, which are doing so specifically for the American market. 
 
Do you think Pfizer is gonna spend billions on some monoclonal antibody that will increase life expectancy by one life without the American market to sell it to for 200k a pop? Do you think any europoor country is gonna shell out that much for a drug which has basically no meaningful effect?

It’d be fine if that drug never made it to market because it doesn’t have a huge effect, but the knowledge base built up using that drug might eventually lead to a similar drug that increases life expectancy by an actually meaningful amount. Without the American market to sell those intermediate drugs to, the big leaps forward never occur.