Curing Disease is Bad for Business.
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Cancer.
HIV & AIDS.
Heart Disease.
We live our day to day existence while afflicted persons struggle with their fight to remain alive.
Just as many if not more struggle with other long term diseases that are perhaps less lethal but debilitating and anathema to maintaining a decent quality of life.
Diabetes.
Alzheimer's.
Lyme's Disease.
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The pharmacies' shelves are aflush with powders, pills, syrups and shots - and if one visits at the right time then the Doctor might be in. All at a price, naturally.
An inquiry.
An inspection.
A prescription.
The medicines and the money keep flowing, and you might feel better in a few days - if its the common cold that you suffer from. If it is indeed the same common cold that has haunted us for centuries and yet keeps mutating with an ever more resilient and troublesome strain to overwhelm one's immune system with.
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And Yet... Is Something Not Amiss?
When was the last time that a major disease got cured?
Perhaps more pointedly, when was the last time that a major disease got cured through a means other than a vaccine?
Why is this question relevant? Well the thing is that a vaccine is an excellent way to ensure that you know how many units you have to produce. A population makes for a very big market and thats a lot of money, especially when one considers that vaccines are not forever - they can and do wear off over the years.
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But really...
Have you not noticed that there exists a conflict of interest in the medical business?
The interest of a business person is to make a profit.
However it is more profitable still to cause a disease...
than both curing & treating combined.
This simple truth has long troubled me. The reason this is so is because it seems to me that a lot of things are sufficiently aligned to foster doubt in the motives that currently underly and drive forward medical progress.
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And this doubt extends far beyond vaccines.
For instance, one could look at the ways that they typically try and deal with Cancer:
Surgical removal
Radiotherapy
Chemo
All the above methods have, shall we say, potential or actual physical and pychological side-effects that are less than desireable to the patient in question.
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Once one reaches the conclusion that it does 'not' make economic sense for the medical industry to cure a patient, then it is only a matter of time before the dominos begin to fall and one calls into question other things.
Including the undeserved aura of non-approachability that has been set up around the medical profession such that setting up competition or challenging the operations of such is an uphill struggle.
But perhaps the most important question that one should ask ourselves is this.
If it is more profitable to make us sick or to treat us indefinitely and withold actual cures from us... what will it take for this absurd situation to be remedied?
Will it ever make business sense to prevent or cure a disease and be done with it?
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Well! That should get you thinking - and I am quite sure that the comments that shall follow shall be interesting . :c) Do get in on the discussion down below as I am interested in hearing from you regardless of whether you find yourself in agreement or not!
I am also interested in hearing any ideas that you may have to answering the concluding question. :c)
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Thanks for your post. For more interesting insight into the medical profession and their motives:
I always tell people to stay away from anything that is Rockefeller.
Thank you, @marymg2014, both for your up-vote as well as this video.
I must admit that I do not make a habit of watching videos as they tend to anger me and throw me off-balance (been there, done that, and it doesn't do my productivity any good).
Thank you for sharing this however. I am sure that others will take the viewing better.
I knew about this but I am glad there is a video revealing this.
Ain't that the truth.
In the states it's that whole private sector vs universal healthcare debate.
In my view the private sector does most things more efficiently, but when it comes to healthcare, the insurance companies have turned it into a nightmare.
If we had universal healthcare in the States would things be better? Probably not, there'd still be no incentive for drug companies to create cures I suppose.
I don't know the answer @pathforger, eat plenty of vegetables and don't do drugs! lol
Thank you, @theroadtoriches, both for your up-vote and your comment. :c)
The private sector 'does' do things more efficiently insofar as minimizing unnecessary costs (and maximizing profits) is concerned.
And that can be a double-edged sword (less waste versus minimalist expenditure on patients).
A better lifestyle would certainly help ("an apple a day..." and all that) but I am of two minds about the drugs... They can be abused - but then again there is no reason why they cannot simply be used.
Thanks again. :c)
i wonder for a long why there was still a dentist drilling my teeth, like hundreds of years ago. Why can't we have good medicine against all the dental diseases? Well, there are a lot of jobs on the line.
I am not sure how to tackle the problem, because I think the libertarian argument that a certain extend of health care is luxury is also true.
My solution would be a free emergency protection. I do not want to live in a place where people bleed to death in the streets, just because they got no insurance. However a lot of medical treatments should be seen as a service, that anyone can over. The doctors always claiming to live up to their oath while saying all alternative treatments are a scam is the most hillarious and sad thing about it.
Hippocratic Oath is no longer required by med school student to swear to or understand. This is the main reason why medicine in America is degrading.
I commend my professor for challenging me to understand the oath in med school!
You can't spell Hippocratic without hypocrite though, wait... you can... nevermind.
Thank you, @thatgermandude, both for the up-vote as well as this solid comment. :c)
Indeed I too have wondered that. I have also wondered at whether the simple process of brushing teeth isn't actually scrubbing away more than the enamel-eating elements but also any inert layer upon the teeth that serves to protect it - and which is also totally destroyed by dentists' drill-cleaning practices.
A healthy set of teeth is not a profitable thing. I kind of compare it to a less-than-honest vehicle mechanic who sort of fixes one thing in your car while either deliberately ignoring that another part of your car is going to eventually fail - or worse - acting to bring such about. Its more profitable to fix a car over three visits than a single one.
The same is true for dentists. Fortunately the worst offenders who will think little of pulling or deliberately damaging and sabotaging perfectly healthy teeth can and do eventually get caught - but thanks to the aura and status, most cannot be called out upon just as one couldn't call out the mechanic for loosening a timing belt or some-such. More instances are gotten away with than not.
Your idea for solution is very interesting - and such would require that some funds be allocated from a nation's budget towards such cases.
That being said a couple of the issues that I foresee with free emergency protection is that such both encourages people to wait until something 'is' an emergency - and it also can result in a fostered sense of entitlement. Its similar to what happens here - except that free care is extended beyond emergencies in the State facilities - and yes - some people opt for such who can really afford paid care - unnecessarily burdening the system.
To base upon your suggestion, I would suggest that post-procedure credit always be an option (to try and avoid a situation where one won't be treated unless they have their insurance papers all sorted - as well as a pre-established means of payment).
I would also propose that State structures require pharmaceutical companies that offer medications above certain price points undergo vetting processes of varying degrees of complexity to ensure that their product is sold within a given nation (small nations may partner up with other nations to unify this process).
Such vetting would include an effective audit and price justification - as well as an identification and analysis of generic alternatives and equivalents.
In this way the profit motive may be balanced against state motives - and part of the justification for these processes would be determining and justifying government subsidy (but never nullification) of treatment costs.
Yes - I am aware that this includes a fair bit of wishful thinking on my part. ;c)
Thank you again!
ahhh, i missed your reply, but i gtg. Can you make a dummy reply to this so I got you on top of my replies and remember to answer? There are a few things I wanna add and healthcare is kind of an important topic ;).
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Healthcare can be kind of a life and death matter...
...so yes... it is kind of important. ^_~
Looking forward to your response.
hehe,
I don't like this because this smells a lot like government and pharma corp coming together to see how much money they can drain from the consumer. I also think this is exactly how it is done in Germany, where pharmaceuticals are admittedly not as expensive as in the states.
I think it is important to see healthcare as two different things. Emergency and healthcare. I understand your resentment, in a way it incentivies taking less care of yourself and wait until you cannot stand anymore. However I do think that some preventive measures like Vaccines and preventive Operations (Cancer) are overrated. You can make a lot of money selling preventives for things the patient might face, especially when you claim that you are not doing it for profit.
I do think by ensuring that the emergency doctors are well trained experts who actually have your health as highest priority, would open up the free market for all kinds of alternative treatments that might prove more effective than classic medicin.
Keep forging the path my friend!
What to do when trust erodes,
all human systems live under the shadow of my doubts.
I run away, leave it behind
But when I arrive their presence shouts
Have they followed me across the Earth?
From all my fears they source their mirth?
Til my death and from my birth
These corrupt systems span the whole worlds girth.
My health, my wealth, money, taxes;
Liberty - oh what a fracas!
What can we do with all this mess?
To forge a better world is our best bet.
Thank you kindly, @ecoinstant, not only for your up-vote but also the very high compliment that you have paid me. :c) So poetic are your words that I wondered whether they might have been your own and yet so context-appropriate that I am more inclined to believe them your own.
One tweak of perspective at a time...
A better World can be forged. :c)
Yes I was inspired to write that poem after reading your article - I enjoy the way you tackle these issues, break them down, find cartoons... basically I like the way you steem!
Well, it was a 'very' pleasant surprise and you certainly made my day @ecoinstant. :c)
While my writing style 'can' get a little dense sometimes, I understand that such writing isn't for a fair many readers out there. That and people generally appreciate reading in smaller dozes (and cartoons and comics help to ease things - while providing another dimension of thought and entertainment).
My earlier posts weren't like this - and I did encounter difficulties along the way - but now that I've settled into this posting style - I won't be looking back. ^_^
Thank you very much again for the feedback and the darn closest thing I ever received to an eulogy! :c)
I am glad you know about Natural News since you used their cartoons from CounterThink!
Started following you now!
Thank you, @greenbeans, both for the up-vote and for your comments (and follow). :c)
I have heard of CounterThink but I cannot say that I've delved into either Natural News or CounterThink's articles. When I build an article I tend to dedicate at least as much time to searching for suitable (and appropriately sized) images as I do on writing it up. :cP My writing on its own is sadly insufficient to capture peoples' imagination or attention. ^_^;;;
I always link to rather than copy the image, and link back to Source as a matter of courtesy. :c)
Thanks again.
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Actually there has been talks for at least 5 or 6 years now in the US to promote our form of medicare/medicaid based on results and not on services performed.
There will be two factors on this kind of pay system:
A.) Results
B.) Patients' feedback
The insurance company is strongly pushing this because believe it or not they are losing money since Obamacare.
This will allow alternative treatments like chiropractors, naturopath, functional medicine or acupuncturist prove that prescribing drugs is not the only way to cure diseases.
The only reason why we haven't seen any movements in this is because sadly it hasn't been proposed to the congress.