Re:What if mega-rich people could buy places on clinical tri...
by tempestn on Sunday November 02, 2014 @04:08AM
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My point was that it isn't unethical; people just instinctively assume that it must be.
I'm not going to argue the public policy motivation behind bailouts as we could go on quite a tangent there, but the fact is that many clinical trials go unfunded. Obviously money exists somewhere, and the government could unilaterally decide that it's more valuable to fund clinical research than to bail out failing companies (or buy F35s, or build schools, or whatever). Thus far they haven't done so. This plan, on the other hand, could actually start saving people's lives immediately.
I'm not going to argue the public policy motivation behind bailouts as we could go on quite a tangent there, but the fact is that many clinical trials go unfunded. Obviously money exists somewhere, and the government could unilaterally decide that it's more valuable to fund clinical research than to bail out failing companies (or buy F35s, or build schools, or whatever). Thus far they haven't done so. This plan, on the other hand, could actually start saving people's lives immediately.