re: #190 Dreggas

but if there’s a “cure” then there’d be no need for other drugs made by x company or y company to treat these issues and treatments can go on a lot longer and in the end cost more. .

Exactly. So, company Z, which is in competition with those companies, has a huge incentive to discover a cure, right?

Sure there’d be a short term advantage to having found the way to effectively cure something but it would be short term

No, it’d be a permanent advantage for the company that developed the cure— or patent-permanent, anyway.

Again: Almost no medication ‘cures’ anything. There is no grand conspiracy to specifically avoid full cures. The truth is that full cures for anything are extremely, extremely difficult to find.

New antibiotics, antifungals, and other medications that, after you take them, you are cured of the disease, are invented all the time by pharma companies.

I have no love for pharma companies, but “They don’t really cure anything!” is not a medically sound line of attack.