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Re:Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 by twoodfin on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @08:51AM (#8757070)
I reckon better way is to have publically funded labs that do the lions share of research, budget split by how common the disease is.

What incentive would any of those labs have to spend their budgets efficiently?

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Re:Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 by chii on Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:04AM (#8766188)
How do you measure efficiency in research? If you use a commercial success metric - then drugs (or things in general) that aren't profitable because they target the most poor/vulnerable people don't get into consideration.
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