[ExI] Health care in the USA

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Stathis Papaioannou<stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There is no doubt that the US leads in medical research, and
> scientific research in general. But almost all of the basic research
> is either government funded or funded by not for profit organisations.
> Pharmaceutical companies pick and choose from this "free" research to
> decide what drug candidates they are going to pursue.
>
### This is the usual government self-serving propaganda. The
government is funding only 15% of all non-military research in the US.
Rest comes almost exclusively from for-profit entities.

Rafal