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>>modele+(OP)
There is a lot in here but turning a non-profit into a for-profit definitely should be challenged. Otherwise why wouldn't everyone start as a non-profit, develop your IP, and then switch to 'for-profit' mode once you got something that works? You don't pay income taxes and your investors get write offs.

>>silico+z11
Isn't this how drugs get developed? Even worse, the research is done using public funds, and then privatized and commercialized later.

>>jjjjj5+041
This is a huge problem in the US. Tax-payers are subsidizing a lot of medical advances, then the US government gives it to the private sector, privatizing whatever medical advances were paid by tax-dollars.

Socialism seems to create a lot of markets for the Capitalist private sector.

>>pleasa+451
> then the US government gives it to the private sector, privatizing whatever medical advances were paid by tax-dollars.

This should be changed to

“Then the US government fails to fund the billions of dollars required for medicinal trials needed to get FDA approval”

No one is stopping the US government from doing all the necessary work to verify the medicines work and put them in the public domain.