Richard Morgan

The United States is the only major economy on the planet where health care is a for-profit industry instead of a free public service; it’s also the only place where the government allows health care not just to be run as an industry, but allows that industry to be run as a cartel. What this means in practice is that pharmacology — the study and development of pharmaceuticals — has become more a branch of industry than of science, and it is therefore controlled by lobbying interests rather than either science or the public good. The only better example of this than […]