1st April 2010, 4:09 PM
You dont have to worry about copyright infringement, that's not what they wanted to accomplish. They wanted to make sure that if you wanted to treat your cancer, there was only one company that could do it (and they could monopolize and charge whatever they want). What's even worse, instead of looking for treatments and cures now, they're spending more money and time on inoculations since as you can probably guess, there's more money on getting *everyone* inoculated instead of 'Just the victims'.
The race for cancer and AIDS research is a dark one because these companies are looking at dollar signs. If you can cure AIDS or cancer, you are guaranteed sales in the hundreds of millions of people who need it now. It will be 'affordable' in that the procedure will probably be a couple grand (it would have to involve gene therapy imo but I dunno) with insurance companies paying say 50% if that, possibly 80% but the premiums would triple to handle all the cost of the cancer and AIDS victims. This one, single company would make it's $1000 per-person over and over again.
Oh wow, i wanted to read the article to see if I missed anything before i posted and boom: They already did that exact same thing with a cancer screening kit ($3000!!!) and monopolize that market. Jesus... every woman who gets her breast tested for cancer has to pay these guys... what a bunch of assholes.
The race for cancer and AIDS research is a dark one because these companies are looking at dollar signs. If you can cure AIDS or cancer, you are guaranteed sales in the hundreds of millions of people who need it now. It will be 'affordable' in that the procedure will probably be a couple grand (it would have to involve gene therapy imo but I dunno) with insurance companies paying say 50% if that, possibly 80% but the premiums would triple to handle all the cost of the cancer and AIDS victims. This one, single company would make it's $1000 per-person over and over again.
Oh wow, i wanted to read the article to see if I missed anything before i posted and boom: They already did that exact same thing with a cancer screening kit ($3000!!!) and monopolize that market. Jesus... every woman who gets her breast tested for cancer has to pay these guys... what a bunch of assholes.