That is one example that was interpreted by you to be valid for all other cases? Seeing your other comments I think you highly trust the medical system. Never trust blindly my friend.

I believe so too, it would also simply require too many good people in labs all around te world to not say anything about it. I find that highly unlikely.

Yet I cannot afford the USD $200,000 price tag for Gilead's cure.

I don’t have a specific example of openly stopping production of a cure, but it’s hard to imagine that research isn’t shaped by this profit drive: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...

If the profit incentive was removed (let’s say government paid same flat rate for a lifetime supply of treatment, whether it be a cure or a reoccurring pill) I have no doubt more cures would be discovered

Not exactly an example, but the pharma industry has shown a complete lack of interest in pursuing phage therapy, even though it could help solve the problem of antibiotic resistance, because phages cannot be patented.

Anecdotal, but I heard it from a reasearcher working in pharma that the company stopped developing a drug that cured some condition that another branch of the company had a treatment for.