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Does anyone not expect them to question sustainability going forward? Anyone in any sane position in healthcare investment is going to ask:

"This is a thing. How has it worked out so far? How will it work in the future?"

“While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.”

The question is: "What is our future when our scientific output kills our business?"

This is a perfectly rational question to pursue. This is a place private medicine hasn't visited. Yet another reason healthcare and research should be a government function. Government exists to spend money on societal benefits without expectation of near-term monetary profit.

God knows where they go with the answers, but putting off cures is conspiracy bullshit. You think the major pharma companies will drop monstrous short term profits? Tell me, with a straight face, that you believe these evil capitalists are planning long term. And then your next comment, "Line must go up!" And the next, "These corporations can't think past the next quarter's profits."

The enemy is both strong and weak. 🙄

Some y'all have the business sense of angry teenagers. No, this shouldn't be a discussion about business, but it is.

tl;dr: "This is going to hurt your bottom line. You need to start thinking about it."