&gt;There must be some economic incentive? Any time people die from a disease, that alone creates an incentive for those left living to find a cure.<p>No matter how altruistic you are, as a private company you can&#x27;t put billions of dollars toward a drug that&#x27;s going to lose money.<p>&gt;I don&#x27;t buy the argument that only Big Pharma who can deliver cures. As the article pointed out, Gilead didn&#x27;t develop the cure. They bought the company that did.<p>... which they would not have done without the expectation of a profit.