In an unusually candid admission, the federal chief of AIDS research says he believes drug companies don't have an incentive to create a vaccine for the
HIV and are likely to wait to profit from it after the government develops one.

And that means the government has had to spend more time focusing on the processes that drug companies ordinarily follow in developing new medicines and bringing them to market.

Stop acting so surprised... Chris Rock said the exact thing more than 5 years ago. I guess when you laugh at the truth, it's less true.

He was right. Drug companies have a lot more to gain from treatments than from cures. That's not to say that the people working for them aren't well meaning, good people, but even they can't change the nature of capitalism.

Another straightforward example of why we need government, and why free markets can't solve all the worlds problems.