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I wonder if there's any good reason to reduce my pessimism about it: I can't help but think there are such strong economic incentives against having a cure (vs
by westoncb 5y ago
I wonder if there's any good reason to reduce my pessimism about it: I can't help but think there are such strong economic incentives against having a cure (vs ongoing treatment) that it's very unlikely to become available during my lifetime.
- R0b0t1 5y agoI don't want to feed your pessimism too much but I think the general culture of being too reserved with funding and testing is going to do more harm than that.
- kelp 5y agoI don't know much about medical research, but I've looked into some of these trials. They are generally being done by startups and not the established players who sell the diabetes management stuff. So think disruptive tech. A new player comes into the market with something that obsoletes the old tech, and maybe destroys a whole market. But that new player makes their own money off it. So yeah, maybe Tandem, Dexcom and Medtronic don't have a big incentive. But someone else can make some real money if they can find a cure or novel treatment that obsoletes all those others things.