I don&#x27;t know much about pharmaceutical policy, but I have an idea. I would like to have it torn to shreds if it means we can have an idea of a more equitable process of creating medicine.<p>What if, in a single payer model, a resesrching entity that creates a new treatment which is in turn approved by the government, automatically forfeits any rights to the drug, but is guaranteed royalties for 20 years or so? Manufacturers don&#x27;t have any limits on what they may or may not create, but there is a minimum price at which the government will pay for it, similar to the &quot;cost+profit&quot; model seen in the defense industry. Likewise, the obscure cheap drugs that get abandoned then have the rights purchased by sociopathic hedge fund managers would instead be manufactured by the state and sold at cost.<p>Is that so crazy?