Although the philosophical energy of the current administration seems almost solely devoted to social actions that will result in financial profit, the concept of community as a pooling of human capabilities to result in an environment of general benefit should maximize the potential capabilities of community to result in the protection of the community against many natural threats which may not cover enough of the population to be of commercial interest. The military is an example of a community activity that is not necessarily commercially rewarding for the nation (although exceedinly profitable for equipment providers) but is vital to the nation as a whole.

There are many afflictions that have horrible results upon the sufferers but the specific afflicted do not constitute a sufficient market to interest drug companies or equipment suppliers. As it turns out, although drug companies continually publicise that their research demands tremendous outlay of funds, it turns out that an overwhelming expense of drug companies is devoted to marketing whereas it turns out that much of the basic research is the work of publicly funded institutions.

Why not extend the function of the public institutions to provide medicines and equipment in the manner of a commercial enterprise for those sections of the populace that would be unprofitable for commercial institutions?

A side benefit might be that a study of some of the obscure afflictions would probably provide insights to afflictions more widely spread in the general public.

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