Most people don't seem to realize the kind of progress that's been made in recent years with CRISPR etc. These problems are becoming data problems rather than biology/chemistry problems. The public (government) should certainly be funding many teams with small amounts of money ($10,000 to $100,000 say) rather than pouring billions/trillions of dollars into "proven winners" (big pharma) that mainly come up with therapies rather than doing basic research.

Honestly I think the same argument applies to so many areas of the economy: alternative energy, space travel, growing food, and so on. We could be finding so many "cures" for relatively modest investments that our current system has actually become very expensive due to the opportunity cost of not doing so. I've spent most of my life asking what we are all working for and towards but have come to the conclusion that keeping everyone busy is the goal now, not progress.

I lost my health insurance, again, to Obamacare. But it doesn't matter because no one in my state (ks) is willing to sell individual health insurance next year... I think there are three states headed this way last time I read.

So yes, the repeal of Obamacare does need to happen sadly :/ I'm hoping for a partisan solution, but at the moment members of Congress are busy promoting their political parties instead of working together.