If it's your life, it might be worth it.
It’s absolutely worth it if you can afford it, which the rich world can. But personalised medicine forces us to face, in stark and dollarised terms, the inequity of healthcare access across the world.
Personalised medicine has high cost floors. The factors which would enable a triple order-of-magnitude reduction in its cost would sooner realise massive savings elsewhere, which means it’s unlikely a niche cancer treatment would be prioritised.
I'm fine with """paying $1M dollars""" via a monthly bill of $50 or whatever until I die and the rest of the debt evaporates.
Which is a rich-world perk. (That, to be clear, we absolutely should offer our people.)
Side note: do you have a link to more on this law? Currently dealing with an uninsured friend for whom we’re pooling resources for a medical treatment.
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-repor...
Note that this is for lower-income households
Especially if it might not ultimately work.
That said, I appreciate that costs will go down over time--even if only somewhat, if the author is correct.
The worst case scenario is it works but you die in a car crash anyway.