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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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Making the cure accessible. Some cancer treatments are more effective AND much more expensive. Companies may be looking for return on investment, or the treatment is tailor-made from the patient's own cells, and inherently labor intensive and hard to produce.
Either way, curing 100% of the richest 5% who can afford it isn't the most satifying outcome.
I would hope this happens but who knows. It feels like making something as basic as insulin accessible is somehow controversial in the US, so it'd probably end up being accessible in other countries to cure cancer while in the US your insurance would pay $1m, never approve it for you, then max out your copay and somehow charge you more beyond that just for the consultation.