A VA researcher found the molecule that became Ozempic. The government funded the work, passed on the patent, and watched a pharma company make forty billion dollars in a single year. There's a law that was supposed to prevent this. It's never been used.
"As I've said before, the right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished."
— Ronald Reagan, signing the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982
The U.S. spent a billion dollars collecting long COVID data. Then it decided not to read it. Meanwhile, Germany wrote a half-billion-euro check for the next decade.
