Originally Posted by bhutocracy

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.