Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
I wouldn't say the healthcare industry causes cancer. But they do profit from it.
Notice how cancer drugs increasingly you have to take for life, and cost millions. Where are the drugs that are just given over a period of time and actually cure cancer. Nowhere to be seen. This, despite the fact that cancer is so common, and so there is incentive to treat it.
But companies can make more money by "managing" it rather than curing it.
The healthcare industry profits from EVERY disease, Einstein. That's what happens when your job is . . . wait for it . . . FIGHTING DISEASES!
That doesn't mean it isn't simplistic and childish, not to mention retarded, to think that a sinister, shadowy conspiracy to make people sick exists, or would even be necessary, to make medicine profitable. The human body is an extremely complex and delicate machine, and it develops all manner of malfunctions without any intentional malice on anyone's part. Every single person on this planet will get sick at some point, and will die at some point. It will always be profitable to treat those malfunctions and to put off that end as long as possible, without the necessity of anyone acting like a bad Bond villain.
Oh, and to seriously believe that stopgap treatments are somehow more profitable than outright cures or preventions is to reveal to the entire world that you are so medically ignorant that you probably shouldn't be allowed to own Tylenol without supervision.