Goldman Sachs dared to say what many have suspected: it is more profitable to sell people a treatment every day than sell them a cure just once.

As long as we let businesses influence medical research, they won't look much for cures. We should take the choice away from them. We should tax these businesses and fund medical research with state funds.

We should also fund tests of proposed medicines' safety and effectiveness with state funds, so that the tests will not be corrupted.

This will take away the supposed reason to allow businesses to have patents on medicines.