The R&D is funded by the tax payers money so why the data is not public in the first place? Or at least mandatory to hand it over to the FDA / peer review process.
Also, the US government finances the vast majority of university biomedical grad students, each costing at least 100k/year. These grads then bring their knowhow to the companies. This is at least $0.5million/employee subsidy in free training.
In the end, it really depends who you ask. Left wingers will say that the government is getting a raw deal, right wingers will point out that the government gets its cut.
As to the Pfizer vaccine, Operation Warp Speed doled out billions for COVID vaccine R&D, but Pfizer claims to not have participated in the program.
…Except they did participated and they received >1billion from it. … Except it was a purchase order, not R&D … Except a guaranteed purchase order is effectively a subsidy (since your known risk is lowered) … except … except