re: #169 Obdicut

BUt say you’re a rival pharma company. If you develop the cure, you gain a huge competitive advantage.

Seriously, most medical conditions can’t be ‘cured’ through pharmaceuticals, and it’s bizarre to demand that they be cured. That’s not what pharma is, for the most part.

Things generally can’t be “cured,” simply managed to a degree that the disease seems gone or at least livable. We’ve progressed a great deal in the last century towards making some diseases virtually non-existent, but we’ve not “cured” them. Between development of new tests for earlier detection, medication/surgery that slows progression, and therapy to control it once its become a chronic condition, diseases and conditions that used to kill now are things that people can lead longer, if not productive lives, once diagnosed with.