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My first thought reading the article: Could something like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation step in to make life-saving but unprofitable drugs available?

This seems like a very legitimate problem that might be worthy of attention from some non-profit, but maybe it just effects too few people?

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Maybe it is just too expensive to keep producing these drugs, when they are not needed. As horrible as it is to say, there is a price on a human life. If those millions can be better spent elsewhere, surely we should be doing that.

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