That's one reason why privatised health is rubbish. "profitable" treatments should be used, in part, to subsidise the cost of unprofitable ones.

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Aurornis 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No medical system, public or private, has infinite money.

There will always be decisions made about which conditions get research and which don't. It's unlikely that a disease this rare would be prioritized by a purely government run system, either. There are too many more common diseases to address first.

	▲	AdamN an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's a little bit the opposite. Private groups are focused on profits but there are gov programs to support the rare disease research that would otherwise go unfunded in a pure market system.

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renewiltord 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I frequently tell people this. We can solve so many illnesses cheaply. Instead we should charge a lot of money and spend that money on things like haemophilia that affect a few people. Imagine a world where the flu vaccine and COVID-19 vaccine cost $1000 each shot. We could mandate it and then the enormous profits we make we could dedicate to things like this family's illness. All we need is for the government to take control and jack up the prices and then to make it illegal to not get the flu shot.

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sokka_h2otribe 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Uhh, you know you could skip the vaccine and just call it a tax..

	▲	renewiltord 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That wouldn't guarantee subsidization of expensive treatments by cheap ones and therefore is fascist.