america is so fucking based man

in any proper country that company at least gets forced to pay by the government then ordered to shut down forever due to wanton cruelty. all the employees get generous severance except whoever made that call. depending upon your view of carceral punishment there are a few ways to go with that guy.

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    10 months ago

    These things cost billions to create. Those billions are often (or should be anyway) spread out over the millions of people who can use the drug.

    When a drug is a one time cure, for something that is rare, it becomes incredibly difficult to make any money back on that unless the cost is incedibly high, or it’s government subsidized.

    That’s why a lot of things we probably could cure aren’t cured yet. It just doesn’t make sense financially to do it. And if they do do it, people like you get angry at them.

    This is much less of a problem in a public single payer system, but even then some of those systems don’t cover these kinds of treatments.