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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by pjmorris on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:53PM (#22388866)
US pharmaceutical company R&D spending is ~80B per year [0]. Healthcare spending is ~3.6T, making pharma R&D about 2% of overall healthcare spending.

Based on the above back-of-the-napkin math, I'm inclined to think pharma R&D isn't really the main factor.

What is your support for believing it is the case?

[0] https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/phrma-research-developmen...

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