> If, just as a thought experiment, it was possible to treat a disease quickly with a cheap drug or intervention, for example a cheap herbal drug that is available patent-free and for mere cents per liter, there would be no business in it, so no company could viably pursue this.
At that level of cheapness, individual patients can buy it themselves. If it became popular enough, somebody would research it. That's already happened with many Traditional Chinese Medicine herbs. Of course, they turned out to be ineffective but one of them might have worked.
Uhm.. it won't be MADE. It won't be RESEARCHED. It won't be MARKETED. It won't go through CLINICAL TRIALS.
I wonder how low the average HN reader IQ has gotten lately that my insightful comment got downvoted and that I have to deal with crap like yours. Way too many total little teenagers and idiots on this site now.
At that level of cheapness, individual patients can buy it themselves. If it became popular enough, somebody would research it. That's already happened with many Traditional Chinese Medicine herbs. Of course, they turned out to be ineffective but one of them might have worked.