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A comment on 80k dollars almost certainly cures hepatitis C. Parent comment
Happy, no question. Medicine this effective doesn't come along often and bodes very well in two ways:
(1) a treatment that works but is expensive today will continue to work but be vastly cheaper within a decade.
(2) the fact that a real cure exists for this disease suggests we may knock out cures for other "incurable" diseases in the future.
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Happy, no question. Medicine this effective doesn't come along often and bodes very well in two ways:
(1) a treatment that works but is expensive today will continue to work but be vastly cheaper within a decade.
(2) the fact that a real cure exists for this disease suggests we may knock out cures for other "incurable" diseases in the future.