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Not really a great deal if 20 years of therapeutic treatments would bring in more than that 100k for the "one time" cure.

Also not advocating there is some conspiracy going on here.



The two agents of interest here are the person paying for the cure and the person buying it.

The person paying for the cure, usually and insurance company, wants it to be as cheap as possible.

The person selling the cure is probably not the same between the two treatment scenarios.

The hospital administering the treatments might have a motive, but they aren't involved in the decisions about whether to go ahead with research.


offtopic -- just curious, are you http://cr.yp.to/djb.html or somebody else?




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