Are we INTENTIONALLY not curing diseases?

Question

I mean... it seems to me... that We as a global-society say that we WANT to cure disease, but the fact is that doctors and hospitals and drug companies and health insurance companies, woud loose money if we were to suddenly cure everything....

Don't you think it kind of seems like they want us to get better but not alllll the way better. It's almost like they just want to cure the symptoms with a pill (an expensive pill) and have us go about our lives needing them... paying them...etc.

Answer 1

Today's health care system is really sick care, health being outside the domain of medicine. As for chronic disease (which represent 95% of the conditions people suffer), modern medicine has no cures, only treatments. The hidden agenda of today's medicine is to generate as much repeat business as possible.

I am sure that if they were aware of cures, most physicians would prescribe them. But, for most conditions, they have no cures.

Modern medicine has been largely reduced to the administration of drugs, all of which have undesirable side effects. Pharmaceuticals are designed to block specific receptor sites in order to trick the body into giving up symptoms. Your problem may appear to be disappeared but it hasn't. You have simply forced your body to produce another set of symptoms to get your attention.

The medical profession does not understand that healing is a spiritual event and not a medical one. The best a physician can do is to be a facilitator. These attributes are neither taught nor encouraged in medical school.

It all boils down to embracing individual, personal responsibility for one's health.

Answer 2

No way. I believe if medical personnel could cure any disease once and for all they would do it in a heartbeat!

There are simply too many diseases and illnesses out there for doctors, hospitals, drug companies and health insurance companies to deal with.. If they could cure any one of them to "get it out of the way" so they could cure other diseases. they would.

In fact if a company could make a single cure.. The drug company that came up with a "cure" (I am assuming it is a drug) would rush it to market at a very high price and everyone would take it.. so for the next 15-20 years they would make all of the $$ and wind up being the richest company in the world!

We live in a capitalist society (at least in the US) primarily interested in short term gain and I have no doubt that the short term profit motive of some company would win out.

Answer 3

True we would lose (not loose) money if suddenly there were cures for everything, but there won't suddenly be cures for everything for a number of reasons.

Many diseases mutate and become drug resistant...Michael Speaker, the traveler with drug resistant tuberculosis is a prime example. The drug resistant strains of AIDS are as well and many diseases are mutating and keeping scientists chasing cures.

It takes years even decades or longer to find a cure for just one disease and because of the stringent FDA regulations in place, testing can often go on just as long. This is why many people go overseas for treatment where regulations aren't as tight and treatments that are still undergoing tests here are being put to use there in addition to some that are considered illegal here.

Our government is also limiting our ability to use stem cell research to see if it could lead to cures for countless afflictions. In many countries overseas, stem cell research is progressing in leaps and bounds and many promising results have come out of it but our hands are tied here in the US to try to take those results further.

Many of the illnesses we now face are products of our own invention and the environment we have created for ourselves. Environmentally caused lung cancers from pollutants and cigarettes, melanomas (skin cancers) are on the increase because of the thinning of the ozone layer and exposure to more harmful solar rays than we've ever been exposed to, various cancers developing in individual communities because the water or air nearby was polluted with carcinogenic toxins by local industry, the list goes on forever.

So no, I personally don't think that the entities you mentioned are deliberately withholding treatments to keep the money coming in, especially since many of those entities are non-profit, but I do agree that many health insurance and drug companies and even our own government aren't exactly doing their best toward coming up with cures and treating existing illness.

Answer 4

I think most of it is the drug companies

(They give politicians $100 million every 2 years in PAC money) In turn Congress reduces the drug testing done

IE One asthma drug was tested on 218 healthy young people and then released to Seniors with other health problems

IE Pfizers Floridil will not work with the $150 for 10 tablet
Viagra because it wasn't tested
( Oh course you can't complain that you wasted $300 on the crap)

Answer 5

I cannot speak for the pharmaceutical companies, but have you ever heard of a hospital or a physician with not enough business? The fact is that most hospitals are overcrowded and most physicians have long waiting lists to be seen. Most of us do not join the profession to line our bank accounts. My biggest rush professionally is seing someone with a good outcome after being really sick, not when I get my paycheck. Accusing the healthcare industry of holding back is not only very unfair, but it is insulting as well.

Answer 6

Yes Leoness, It is true that the politicality of the drug companies as it applies to our possible healthier bodies is in conflict with the profits of the sales of medications to treat the symptoms.Sadly it is at the expense of our lives, or our perceived life extension in the case of cure. It may come, but selectively, and not for the common man.

Answer 7

Yes, I totally agree, me and others discuss this all of the time. Doctors know about cures and natural cures, but they don't tell because they need the business and pharmacists and medicine companies need the business. So yes I totally agree!

Answer 8

I work for a major cancer center trying to cure cancer. Do you honestly think the hundreds of us who walk past 3 year old girls in masks dying of leukemia EVERY DAY are holding out for more money?

Do you have any idea how insulting this notion is to us?

Answer 9

I think that they find pills to cure illnesses that the pills they gave us caused.It is all about MONEY!!!

Answer 10

wow i had never thought of this...maybe, it makes sense!