It's the fact that pharmaceutical companies are involved in the sphere of public health that makes people uneasy about excessive profits, whatever "excessive" means.
It's not only profits: lifestyle drugs, like statins and medication for ED are obviously a source of easy profit, meanwhile research into antibiotics is falling by the wayside.
The fact that the existing antibiotics are becoming useless and there is nothing to replace them is going to be a disaster. There is this current discussion about vaccination skepticism (to use a polite word); one reason that parents omit to vaccinate their children is that no one living has experienced what a genuine measles or polio epidemic is like.
The availability of antibacterials since the 1930s has been a similar miracle. You do not have to die of a severe infection, you can take medication against it. Unless there is investment in research, serious infectious diseases will be back.
It's not only profits: lifestyle drugs, like statins and medication for ED are obviously a source of easy profit, meanwhile research into antibiotics is falling by the wayside.
The fact that the existing antibiotics are becoming useless and there is nothing to replace them is going to be a disaster. There is this current discussion about vaccination skepticism (to use a polite word); one reason that parents omit to vaccinate their children is that no one living has experienced what a genuine measles or polio epidemic is like.
The availability of antibacterials since the 1930s has been a similar miracle. You do not have to die of a severe infection, you can take medication against it. Unless there is investment in research, serious infectious diseases will be back.