I'm sorry you have to take remicade for the rest of your life, but remicade won't cost $17k each time for the rest of your life. Generic versions of remicade are already available in Europe, and will be available in the US not later than Sep 2018 (when the patent expires, but in fact a biosimilar has already been approved by the FDA and could be launched "at risk" at any time).

On the other hand, it's likely that better treatments for your condition are developed in the future and at that point you will complain about how expensive those new drugs are.