Making it cheaper (and thus allowing more drugs to be tested, or to allow inventors to raise less money and thus keep more equity ownership, thus being better able to develop future drugs) isn't really cynical either, IMO.
I want pharma companies to make huge profits. I just want them to create vastly more surplus value for society in the process, vs. live via regulatory capture. If I could pay Novartis $10k/yr to be totally healthy and do fat lines of coke/mdma/mushrooms every day with no exercise, and have a 200 IQ as a side effect, I'd be quite happy.
I want pharma companies to make huge profits. I just want them to create vastly more surplus value for society in the process, vs. live via regulatory capture. If I could pay Novartis $10k/yr to be totally healthy and do fat lines of coke/mdma/mushrooms every day with no exercise, and have a 200 IQ as a side effect, I'd be quite happy.