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Originally Posted by andrej_NDC
AIDS is the best thing that happened to the pharma industry...they can treat people their whole life instead of cure them. Nobody call tell me they didn't or couldn't come up with a solution, if they wanted. But monthly recurring payments for 20-30 years, you can't beat that.
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I hear you, but the problem with this thinking is that it treats an entire industry full of bitter rivals as a monolithic hive mind. If it were that easy to cure something, a rival company would just rape the recurring company with a once off pill. They would still make an assload of money and cripple a competitor.. The "tube site" to the monthly recurring payments if you will. People are far too quick to go to conspiracy theories. That's not to say pharma doesn't seek out recurring treatments first, but if easy silver bullets were out there, someone would be selling them, because hey, it's still making a sale on a bullet.