1. Rare diseases tend to come with long, difficult names. For the many people who are unfamiliar with them, they can be a mouthful and you may have to repeat yourself more than once. “I said ANKY-LOSING SPONDY-LITIS.”
2. If you have a rare condition chances are the treatment is pricey.
3. Not only is your medication expensive, there can sometimes be A LOT of it. Or ( lucky you) there is also medicine you take in order to treat the side effects of the first one.