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There's also the problem of false positives. Treatments for rare diseases are often expensive and/or carry serious side effects.
I was thinking of diagnostics, not treatment, though from DanielLC's reply I guess I had underestimated the cost of that, too.
If you start diagnosing and find false positives than you are usually going to treat them.