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> I want pharma and medical innovation to be huge money makers.

I want citizens to not die of treatable diseases. Our goals seem to be different.



I want citizens not to die of untreatable diseases. It is better to have very expensive treatments for a disease than no treatments for a disease.


> It is better to have very expensive treatments for a disease than no treatments for a disease.

False duality. We can have treatments fairly priced. The only reason that this ones are so expensive is because monopolies and corruption.


What good is a treatment if you can’t access it? If you’re poor enough even food poisoning is “untreatable”.


Presumably at least 1 person would be able to access the treatment. 1 is infinitely greater than the 0 people who would have access to the treatment of there was none.

In addition, like all technology, there is a tendency to go from something for the very rich to something common.




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