The gap between drugs for common versus rare diseases eventually widened to the point where few or no treatments were available for some rare conditions such as Crohn's disease, Hansen's disease, etc.
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The chief sponsor of the bill (H.R. 5238) was Henry Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health.
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