Is it true that most medicine makers don't want you cured but instead want you to be treated so they can ...

Question

maximize profits ?

Answer 1

Ethically: NO.
Commercially: More inclined to YES than NO (partial).
It depends on the type of disease or syndrome they are catering to.
Example: If it is fever, flu or common cold, the answer is yes, because they dont want to lose customers (getting customers itself is rarity). If it is Diabetes or cancer, the answer is NO, as they know customers cannot be cured completely and once one gets it, he/she will become a life-time customer.

Answer 2

No.
Two reasons why this paranoid view of the world is wrong:
- Oversimplification. You think that for any disease there should be a pill, preferably in five different flavours, which, once swallowed, cures you instantly.
Unfortunately, deceases are not like that. Bacteria and parasites are rarely killed 100%, they become immune to drugs, etcetera.
Cancercells are too much like normal cells to just kill them off without harming normal cells.
Damaged cells, as in Parkinsons or dementia, can not be replaced by an injection or a pill.
It's not an exact science. Your flaw is thinking that it is.

- Capitalism. If my company purposely made a drug that doesn't work, and another company could make a drug that DOES work.
How long do you think people will buy my medicine when they know it doesn't cure, and they know there's another medicine that works?
Which do you think they'll buy?
Which company do you think will make the most money?

Answer 3

All companies are in business to make (rather than lose) money. As such drug companies are constantly on the lookout to buy smaller companies with useful drugs and also may expend millions of stockholder dollars researching new drugs (few of which succeed). There are many human ailments that have long-lasting effects such as diabetes and drug companies certainly would favor drugs with long term treatments. You can always refuse to take any drugs. Your doctor is your adviser not your dictator. There is some strange notion that modern medicine would be somehow better today without drugs. Go figure. When my doctor prescribes drugs or over-the-counter medication they have always helped. Instead of worrying about bad drugs worry about finding a good doctor you trust.

Answer 4

well, there are certainly a lot of conspiracy theorists that would like everyone to think that. of course there are probly a lot of med. companies that dont want you to think that. corruption among the pharmasutical companies has been an issue for a while. there are plenty of medicines that work effectively and thats how most of them are. i think the problem isnt meds that dont work, but meds that are over perscribed. some pharmacutical companies will pay doctors to perscribe more medicine than people actually need or even assign it if the person dusnt really need it at all. the whole business has become a sticky one...one where such corruption is easily able to fester, but im not sure its as bad as a lot of people make it out to be

Answer 5

In league with the "doctors" of the world, the mega-corporate pharmaceutical companies encourage, indeed almost force, the treatment of disease rather than the cure of it.
An example is the "treatment" of type 2 diabetes in which the medication causes weight gain which in turn increases insulin resistance which inturn requires more medication.
It is a vicious circle, kept in motion by the greedy.

To find the root cause of most problems in this world, follow the money.

Answer 6

yes. i was watching this special on fox one day and this guy was on and was describing his book where he went around the world to different countries, researching special medicines. and there are many cures for many diseases that "dont have a cure" , and he was also explaining how in the US it is illegal to treat cancer without chemo. and that there is a cure for cancer but it is not released in the US because of the same reason marijuana isnt legal. because it is an herb and can be grown anywhere, in other words the government just cant tax it and make there money.

Answer 7

I believe that can be a reasonable assumption. To prove it might take "an act of congress" because if someone where to prove such an accusation, there would be the biggest lawsuit in world history to follow. The charge: Fraudulent medical claims of a general nature. It would be the accuser's role to list everything.

Answer 8

Yes, though they would never publicly admit this. The money is in the disease, not the cure.

Answer 9

They will maintain your health but not cure, to big of a loss if they do. =)

Answer 10

I believe that.