I'm trying to remember the actual Chris Rock quotes...But the coments by everyone else illustrates the point. The point being, there is no money in the cure, there is massive money in the disease/treatment of symptoms. If there was real money in actual cures for a disease, why would a company put out real massive amounts of money to fund any form or research, unless the companies founder had a mom who died of say ovarian cancer or something else? It's all profit guys. Hate to break it to you, but that's how it goes. It's even worse for people like us who 30,000 are afflicted with the disease in the entire country. We are designated an "Orphan disease" by the pharmaceutical companies. You know what that means? That means unless there is a drug that can be created with very little investment, and if that drug doesn't ease symptoms that all of those 30,000 will have, there is no point in trying to develope it.
The CFF helps a ton, but there is still only so much they can do. It will ALWAYS come down to $$$...And just from a simple economics perspective, if there are 30,000 people with a particular "orphan disease", and in the best possible scenario for your company, if you could get no more than say 4 million per year if there was total compliance with your drug, and it would take 90 million to develope this drug, if you were the CEO, would you seriously even give the nod to go forward?
It is ALL about the least possible investment, and then after you get past the different trials, and the FDA, you have already spent a BOATLOAD on all of these aspects. Now ask yourself as just a financial incentive, wouldn't you want your drug to treat the symptoms properly, meaning they will always need to take your drug...Or would you seriously want to "cure" them of their disease?
The profit is in the symtoms of the disease, not the cure of the disease. Remember that guys.