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Most medical research in the US is, at a minimum, government-subsidized already.



So the budget is going into research instead of something like NHS.


No; the budget is going into insurance companies' budgets and pharma benefits budgets. There's a trillion-dollar industry that exists in the US solely to take money from people needing healthcare. That's where the money is going - look to the thing that doesn't exist elsewhere.




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