re: #120 marjoriemoon

It reeks to me of “doctors don’t really cure anything. They keep you sick just to make more money.” I don’t know what to say to anyone who thinks that other than, it’s bullshit.

It is true that pharma companies do not aim to cure things. They aim to make money off of medication. So, if they have a good treatment for something, they’re unlikely to also research a cure for it. That’s true. But another pharma company has every incentive in the world to research a cure for something they don’t have a treatment for, especially if the opposition has a treatment for it.

The biggest problem is that pharma companies aim at things like Viagra, which is not anywhere near a critical medication. It’s a perfectly good medication, but the reason they researched it is because they knew they could make a hell of a lot of money off of it.

The actual cures for a lot of things are surgical, which really isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.