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Companies are also motivated by profits. This can create a perverse incentive to focus on treatment methods and ignore prevention/cures. They might also focus more on problems that effect "rich" people (blood pressure, cholesterol, weight loss, depression) while ignoring things that kill many poor people like malaria.


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