Insurance is absolutely, unambiguously, the worst. I had a stress echocardiogram denied by insurance yesterday because they don't think I need it. A test to try to identify a problem, what's my alternative? Wait to see if I drop dead? I guess in that sense I don't need it but c'mon. And I'm on one of the "good" plans.

It seems like "deny everything and we'll save money on the people that can't/won't fight the denial" is actually common practice now.

I hope their actuaries get to experience the bullshit and have time to regret their contributions to human suffering.

True! Hopefully, their tools are able to suggest ways to safely produce those meds, too.

Also, I strongly hope they'll build something able to accurately verify that processes went through as intended, with the desired product present and no known and harmful or unknown compounds formed. Chemistry is full of surprises, especially organic one...

I think that is one of the cases where it wouldn't help. The medical research still needs to happen and it requires experts.

The tools provided by this organization are useful for manufacturing your own medication off of an existing, proven formula.

What we need is for all this research to be government funded, so profitability isn't what decides whether a disease needs to be researched.