(Sanders') ‘Radical’ bill seeks to reduce cost of AIDS drugs by awarding prizes instead of patents

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2. Both still seem very backward to me.

That a world has come into being where corporations profit from the ownership of patents to life-saving drugs is mind-boggling, if you only take a small step back.

For me, the question becomes about why these researchers - who do, I imagine, genuinely care about the work they're doing - are working for these drug companies instead of for public or non-profit groups. How has the allocation of resources for this work become so skewed towards private enterprise? Why have we, as a society, allowed this to happen?

... Yes, of course I know this is a pipe-dream, but it's one worth having.