Disabling diseases not getting fair piece of health funds

Reuters reports on a study that examines the 15 costliest medical illnesses in the United States on a population-wide and per capita basis, which finds little correlation between how disabling a disease was to patients and how much society spent on treating the disease. For example, ailments such as mood disorders and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (which include emphysema and chronic bronchitis) had the greatest gap between the level of disability and the amount of money spent on the disease. By contrast, health problems ranked most costly, such as car crashes, were not necessarily the most disabling. There's no specific mention of MS in this article, but this easily translates -- high disability potential and low public research spending.