in related news.
One of the Apple fanboi's at work described this as one of the funniest things he's seen all year.
http://samsungdesign.tumblr.com/
West Coast Legal may disagree
The OECD might disagree with you if you consider health spending per capita vs Life Expectancy as a metric.
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/life-expectancy-and-health-care-spending/
No, just pointing out that where the free market is not naturally predisposed to incentivize a solution, A non market based approach can yield a solution. (The Free Market is not the answer to everything; Sometimes Government directed efforts are)
Only for company's in capitalist systems. Government funded healthcare research doesn't have to be profit based ("for the greater good") . Hence the argument that company's prefer treatments / managed conditions - as they yield a recurring revenue stream, rather than cure's - which are one offs. Or where's the return on problems that only affect poor people ... Affluenza on the other hand ...