Government funded research institutions will continue to provide BREAKTHROUGHS to receive funding.
That's an interesting one, because that cost is entirely caused by the government. The government could for example fund clinical trials, since they're the ones who are interested in it's results (as is by extension the public).
As for the rest, if the science were freely available without a patent from the scientists, companies could still spend money making it a therapy and making a profit by doing it better and more efficiently than their competitors, and they could still get a patent on their work.
We're talking about making the science patent free, not the product.
Most scientific breakthroughs throughout history were pursued due to simple curiosity or necessity, precisely because without an international framework of patent law "patents" and the pursuit of technology as intellectual property directly for financial gain was impossible.
The British for example attempted to control physical access to textile IP but Samuel Slater[1] memorized as much as he could and "exported it" along with himself to the Americas to reap a fortune.
