Many of these complaints may be a thing of the past, thanks to, yes, the U.S. government.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...90I0AI20130119
Seems that where the free market fails to find a way, the government can help fund a workaround.
Think flu vaccines to which no one is allergic, and that flu viruses can't mutate to circumvent. And since big pharma would rather spend their massive holdings on advertisement than innovation and R&D, that leaves you and me, the taxpayer to foot the bill.
Yep, if you want to go to the moon, MegaCorp probably can't or won't get you there without a government grant. That's just the way they roll.