[copperx]

It's easier to get ahold of $1000 to cure your disease than get ahold of a permanent stream of income that will enable you to live.

[michaelbuckbee]

Small but important note, it's $1000 / pill and $80,000 for the curative course of treatment.

[visarga]

They probably don't want or expect too many people to be cured with it, at this price.