We don't need Big Pharma AT ALL.
Our laws are shit in the US - they need to be changed.
We need Fed Gov research money to go into finding the NATURAL CURES.
You can't patent something NATURAL, and the human body is not designed to be actually helped by things that don't exist in NATURE.
The tests the US Government requires are extremely costly. And the only way the company (Big Pharma) can make the money back they spent on expensive test is if the thing they're tested is man-made, patentable, and can be sold at monopoly prices. They invent new molecules, that do something, they find out what they do, and then do with the tests, get FDA approval, charge a huge amount for them, and then get about the doctor bribery process.
Fed Gov does the test on natural things like garlic and ginger and onions, figure out what those things do, and then give those cheap things to people for free, and tell them to eat a lot of them. Knock out the diseases before they get out of hand. If there's one cancer cell there somewhere that you don't know about, and you start eating all the healthy cancer killing and preventative foods, often, you'll knock out the cancer and everything else before it gets out of hand.
We have a pretty good idea right now what a lot of those good foods are, but the FDA won't let onion farmers put "cancer cure" on onions because there is no "Big Onion" that can afford to do all the tests the FDA requires to let them put a "cancer cure" logo on bags of onions.
Things have gotten worse and worse, our food has gotten less and less healthy in the last 100 years.
We don't need any new pharmaceuticals. Get rid of the patents on all the existing pharmaceuticals, let anyone make them, and the price would drop to the cost of production.
Fuck Big Pharma, the US would be much better off without them.