Not particularly.<p>By the way pharmaceutical companies also free ride on public universities. Research is often done there.  Even if it is from grants, it often means professors end up working and spending their time for pharma companies instead of doing other things like teaching students.<p>Moreover, if our goal is to win hearts and minds and I don&#x27;t know, promote Democracy (at least that is what the propaganda tells us), isn&#x27;t providing health saving medication or building hospitals or schools working towards that goal better than say overthrowing their government or threatening to invade.<p>Going back to Western Europe, I hear it is already possibly to go to Germany (or was it Norway) and attend a 4 year university there for free. Isn&#x27;t that free riding So they can have our pills and we can go there and not pay $200k in student loans.  Globalization and free markets, we learned that was a good thing, right ...