"Big Pharma" in the eyes of the public is two related but separate issues; 1) the weird employment-insurance-hospital loop that has developed in the US, and the terrible second-order-consequences of all the open-high/settle-low insurer<->carer system it led to, and 2) the medicine advertisements, and all the terrible consequences thereof.
The second one seems like a much easier thing to get rid of using hard government power, and should be the low-hanging fruit.
The first will require a decade of masterful leadership, co-operation from competing interests, and delicate undoing over time that I don't think any country in the west has right now.
The second one seems like a much easier thing to get rid of using hard government power, and should be the low-hanging fruit.
The first will require a decade of masterful leadership, co-operation from competing interests, and delicate undoing over time that I don't think any country in the west has right now.