Listen to a doctor, Dragan.

a>>Penicillin is relatively useless today, replaced by broader spectrum drugs that also are being overused leading to resistance. Unless new drugs keep being researched and deployed, we may well find ourselves at the mercy of infection again.
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>Penicillin still works, and all the talk about the broad spectrum antibiotics etc is mostly sales pitch. Also, now even here you can't buy it in a regular pharmacy without a prescription, by a simple hospital fiat, a little memo that was passed to retail. No law was changed. And the explanation was that same yarn about resistant strains etc. At the same time, you can buy the same antibiotics if you say you need it for your dog or cat. Or cow, for that matter. When they feed cattle antibiotics, you don't hear the industry complaining about creating resistant strains.
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>>Too cynical. If it costs billions to research a drug, asks yourself what sort of return other industries expect if they invest a billion with no certainty of return. Unless you're willing to slap the other industries the same way, all you're saying is that it's uncool to research drugs so take your $ elsewhere.
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>On top of the actual cost of research and development, the pharma slaps the amount they might have earned if they gambled on Walmart Street as cost and thus inflates the cost price by an imaginary amount they didn't spend.