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We're in agreement - just from different angles.

These companies are very much profit-driven and in terms of pricing as cold-hearted as they come.

It's just that if they could get your money now at once, they would do it. There's no scheme to keep you paying again and again - they're just not able to provide a different solution.

Meanwhile if a treatment isn't explored by them it's usually due to one of the following reasons:

-Not patentable.

-Not broadly applicable (e.g. only effective in people with specific, rare genes).

-Not effective.



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