Pharma is a terrible investment, they spend all money on R&D and acquisitions of firms that completed trials successfully
I don't know why people rail against Pharma when healthcare like hospitals have huge returns on investment in comparison.
https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/arcx/xph/performance
look how much pharma index trails healthcare
Your comment is correct except this sentence. In reality, if the US implemented price controls, it would simply reduce the negotiating power of European countries. Prices in the US would go down, and prices elsewhere would increase. The pharmaceutical profits would decrease on net, but there would still be plenty of incentive for R&D (much of which is already derisked by the massive amounts of public money spent on it with zero expectation of return).