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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's how all medical advances work, they are expensive when they are first developed and then over time they generally become cheaper as patents expire and processes are refined.

Once upon a time only a handful of people could get insulin to treat their diabetes. When it was first discovered you had to process huge numbers of pancreases to extract enough for one person. Should we have opposed research into treating diabetes because only the rich would be able to afford it?

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