It appears your reading comprehension is as limited as your ability to communicate more than once.
I am not saying anything anything about the cost of R & D its not a newsflash that the price goes down over time.
What I am saying is that there are many medical treatments and procedures that cannot rationally be justified on a cost basis. Simply put we as a society cannot continue the fiction that life is priceless and spending any amount of money to prolong it is justified.
As I said if the individual pays for the treatment themselves then go for it. But government and business cannot afford it..
There’s a similar sort of issue that arises when you’re talking about an issue that may have individual advantages, but has a collective negative impact. In the prostate cancer field, the PSA test fits that category. When you net out the possibility of saving a life and compare it with the probabilities of overtreatment or negative side effects, the public as a whole is negatively impacted by routine PSA testing.
You run into these same kinds of issues when you attempt to construct a cost effective system that benefits the vast majority of the population. The only solution is to permit self-pay in that kind of system. There are self-pay options to NHS, both in the U.K. and a short hop across the channel.
The public outcry comes from politicians selling these systems as providing all things to all people. There’s just no economically sane way to construct such a thing.