A Tory-chosen economist proposes to pay pharma companies a bonus for developing new antibiotics.

It is worth spending our money on developing new antibiotics, provided we make sure they won't be ruined soon by feeding them to animals as a default practice. However, the method proposed is simultaneously a system for subsidizing big businesses wastefully.

Big pharma companies don't do much lifesaving research anyway; that's usually funded by governments. So let's fund the whole process, and make the new life-saving antibiotics available with no patents to save lives of poor people too.