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Which business model do you prefer - ongoing revenue or one-time payment?

There's more money to be made by treating the symptoms than there is providing a cure. Anyone you know with a chronic disease will tell you that since their diagnosis, the price of everything related to the condition has gone up dramatically... cancer, ADD, diabetes, asthma, etc.

I wonder what ad-supported pharmacology business model would be like? Medicaid meets Madison Ave.




any corporation with a cure would have an immense advantage over any competitors


Also, even if there were only one corporation with a total healthcare monopoly then provided it could charge whatever it wanted it would still be able to make more money by just curing the cancer since it's providing a more valuable service by doing that.




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