If you or somebody you cared about suffered from this disease, and knew a cure existed, and knew that cure was out of your reach because you didn't have the money to pay for it (or lived in a system that privatized gains and socialized losses), you'd feel a great deal of emotional pain. You wouldn't die the same way.
Saying $2.1M is a bargain because the other solution is $23.2M is like saying the $SOCIAL_MEDIA_APP terms and conditions are fair because they're available and you should have read it in full as a preteen. It doesn't account for human nature and gives a cold shoulder to factual reality. It's not kind or empathetic to a lot of people, even if it is fair and just. That's where I think why people talk past each other a lot about healthcare.
Full disclosure: I am a software engineer in the U.S. who had his life saved about 32 times in the E.R. in Canada from supra-ventricular tachycardia. I grew up in lesser means and I might be dead or my family bankrupted had I grew up in the U.S. and paid the fair ER fees each time. So I owe Canada my life, and a blood debt I really can't pay off in my lifetime. I'm certainly not unbiased.