Thanks for these links.

For this reason I have been also been trying to pay attention to development of better treatments for symptoms, specifically the extreme suffocation style pneumonia that is the main killer.

After all, this is what happened with AIDS, there is no cure per se, just more and better treatments over time (nor do we have a cure for the common cold.)

You know I am totally for taking all the profit motive out of the actual practice of medicine. As the practice of medicine is a actually more of an art not a science and providers are supposed to be professionals, not profit seeking.

BUT the problem here really brings close to home how helpful and inspirational the profit motive can be in development of drugs and devices. Yes, the downside is this leaves some diseases to be "orphans" because there aren't enough sufferers for profit. And I myself tend to trust research papers on new treatments from the Brits because not the least of which they will research things that are already inexpensively available.  At the same time, and despite Jonas Salk's famous charitable attitude, there's no motivator like possibly being able to make a fortune off a good treatment where none exists.

Don't know how to square this. How do you make new treatment inventions profitable while at the same time keep a non-profit medical system and keep costs of treatments down under government controlled pricing....