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Most companies are taking a cautious “wait-and-see” attitude, although several are now aggressively pursuing policy sales from other terminally ill populations.
Treatments fashioned specifically for rare diseases are necessarily very expensive. A fully satisfactory solution to this problem has not yet been found.