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Yes, I do understand that there are a lot of people with good intentions working for a cure, but the people funding you are a whole other story.

My point was that the big money who funds research will calculate what is best for them financially before they let a cure become available.

You missed my point.

Universal social health care is essential for a functioning society

Not to wish bad things on bad people ... but if you're in the pharmaceutical industry and holding your breath YOU don't get an incurable disease; your parents/spouse, your kids ... ponder that. The thing about disease ... it doesn't care who you are. Have a nice day.

I’m going to say something that’s going to prob not make you happy. First of all I agree with you and also this is a similar sentiment held by people on the other side of the aisle. and by medical orphans. this is part of the root of distrust of the medical system

No need to invent new diseases when we face epidemics of dementia among our increasingly long-living retirees.

This is cold hard capitalism working exactly as it is meant to: maximize profit.

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This is why Healthcare should never be part of the capitalist market - it doesn't fit. Capitalism is great for many things where there is freedom to choose and access to information about the company/product. That is the opposite of how healthcare works.

Are you sure you're bot just antivax?

There's a dentist online promoting oral probiotics as the cure all for all dental disease. Probiotics are helpful but not a cure all for dental caries, accesses, periodontal disease etc

So with AI supposedly potentially curing diseases what's going to happen to all these pharmacology companies??

But they aren't going to innoculate babies for Hepatitis B due to RFK jr

This nation turned an obesity crisis-& diabetes crisis- into a lifestyle choice, managed by the pharmaceutical industry. And every medication I see advertised has potentially serious side effects, which the industry "solves" by creating a new pill 2moderate the side effects. Head shaking stuff.

Unfortunately, that doesn't just apply in America.

Goldman Sachs wasn't sustainable, so they got a bailout

Exactly. That's why societies w/ universal NOT FOR PROFIT healthcare have much more positive outcomes; they focus on prevention. There's no profit in preventing cancer; there's a LOT of profit in treating it.

Sovaldi was available in December 2013. Hovaldi was available in October 2014. Hovaldi was not the first cure for HepC.

Wtf is Harvoni? I had HepC. I took Sovaldi.

It’s extortion….your money or your life

A cure will give a pharma company an advantage over other companies and allow for huge prices.

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Analogously ten companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world, including Nestlé, Pepsico, Coca-Cola, and Unilever. These companies have every incentive to encourage people to over-eat, paying food chemists good salaries to devise increasingly addictive formulations.

Funny thing 'bout that, eh? 🤑

Yup. Greed and profits. Make em sick and keep em paying.

They will, however, sell you pills until you die. Cure? pshaw, fooey, whaddya nuts?

Patients are cash cows under health care for profit. Never fully treat the illness if you want customers to return.

That’s why other countries have better medicine

Don’t confuse idiots with simple counter-examples. It makes them cranky.

Omg...monsters

That is the reason that there is no real cure for cancer. It is a brutal game

Let's hear what "AI" thinks, since the Orange Felon wants to rename it to "SI" because it's superior. Ask it and let's see what it says. Then worry if it gives you the answer to "kill" instead of "cure".

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government was or should be a combination of public and the private sector. while most things require $, some things are not $. For Goldman Sachs, $ is what they are about. It says nothing about quality, creativity, academia, invention, the well being of the country...people, land, weather.

Capitalism incentivizes sociopaths, period. Just reduce actual living beings into meaningless numbers and loot an pillage away. A modern society cannot go on this way without catistrophic consequences. But I guess we're just going to have to learn that lesson the hard way.

Let’s do the math. For example, in the US: 1. 382,640 women are diagnosed w/breast cancer yearly 2. Current Treatment sales=$43.3B/yr 3. A cure would easily sell for $3-5 million (based on current gene/cell therapies) 4. Cure sales would be over a trillion dollars/year (26x more)”

Who did?

Let’s do the math. 1. 382,640 women diagnosed w/breast cancer yearly 2. Current Treatment sales=$43.3B/yr 3. A cure would easily sell for $3-5 million (based on current gene/cell therapies) 4. Cure sales would be over a trillion dollars/year

It never occurs to the "creators" of "nobody is interested in cures" that there is more than one patient and thus "curing a disease in one patient" is not the end for the drug. But people love feeling outrage.

I don't think this is an accurate understanding of what drives pharma pipelines.

I've always believed that is the reason behind the lack of interest in prevention as well. $$$$$$ wins over ethics, sadly.

You can't do better health care under a profit model.

$1000 a pill that costs $10 to make. People died because they couldn't afford the cure. Gilead.

Yeah, Kapitalism!

That has nothing to do with the US (North, Central or South American?) All pharma companies exist to make money. They all operate on the basis of reality -- medicine doesn't save anyone. We're all going to die of something. Medicine only extends life and/or makes it less painful to die. Period.

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Bullshit

Cervical cancer! What others?! And how many more have not been?

I've been terrified of this for years!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

That's why doctors only treat symptoms.

Most of us won’t be able to afford the cures when they come. 🫤

They want repeat customers not patients

They are so full of it. There are new patients born everyday.

While there are probably some bad healthcare companies, this is absolutely not true, especially for non-profit healthcare. You want a villain or a conspiracy? Look at the insurance companies. People put off needed care because of the cost and insurance denials then end up getting sicker.

What an ignorant and idiotic statement.

there wouldn’t be all the huge cancer centers if it wasn’t a money maker

People need to learn about natural medicines. Pharmaceuticals are not the way to go. 

Curing a disease to pharma is like wireless electricity to utilities. JP Morgan would have none of it. We will not get it .... until greed is cured.

Health can't be run like a business.

Glad my mom was in the trials of Harvoni and has been Hep C free for multiple years. She had it for 30 years. She had to be so so careful with cuts, nosebleeds, sharing things with even me, and had to watch for signs of liver failure. Now she can actually LIVE. Like we should all have the right to.

I read their report. What’s missing from their proposed solutions are alternatives to the corrupt patent system. Fixing that would take disease cures out of BigPharma’s hands where profits are maximized & overcapitalized, sometimes at the expense of human lives.

That's why cancer is not cured today... they have to keep us sick to get rich

Industry should not be privately controlled. 🧐

You’re so right

This post is ignorant bullshit.

I was diagnosed with leukemia in 2007. Historically it was a two year death sentence. In 2002 a first of its kind genetic drug was released that if taken every day basically cured the disease. It did. In 2025 I stopped taking the drug and have no signs of the leukemia. There are many such stories.

Bingo! Maybe if they could not make so much in profits?

this is true! thats why we need universal healthcare! fuck the corporations! if you want to keep the very entity which is stealing from you; then choose private healthcare!

Which is why these vampires will never allow a cure for all cancers or diabetes. Money grubbing bastards all.

Hence why these industries should not be profit based. Profits should be taxed at 100%.

So were scientists on the brink of finding cancer cures? Is that why billionaires wanted our research gutted? Who else was behind the scenes of DOGE's chain saw?

Yea, capitalism is dumb AF.

This is the same argument against for-profit health insurance, and for single payer When there’s a profit motive, all other things become in Service to profit

Not even close This was an investor memo, not a chastisement to the drug company Harvoni wasn't strangled by private equity, it was phased out for better hepatitis C meds. Harvoni is a WHO essential medicine And if "they want you sick," don't you think "they" would have crushed vaccines by now?

Lilly said 50 yrs ago they’d “cure diabetes within 30 yrs” still waiting.

Wouldn’t matter if healthcare were not for profit and didn’t trade on the stock exchange That’s when shareholders became the customers and patients moved from customer to product

Vaccines are truly inexpensive, compared to treating the diseases they prevent. The toddler son of an anti-vaxxer I know, got pneumonia, ended up hospitalized on oxygen for a week, sustained permanent lung damage, and will need medication for the rest of his life. The vaccine costs, max: $330.

But when you have a chronic health condition - they refuse to pay out 🤷‍♀️

Capitalism is a disease.

Which medical school or biological sciences PhD program did you attend?

Ding...ding...ding...

Old Eddie Murphy stand-up routine. "Almost everyone here will live long enough eventually to make a phone call like this: 'Hey, I can't come in today, my AIDS is acting up.'"

which is one reason why fed (HHS) R&D is critical to developing cures and treatments for diseases There are (or were) grants and awards for public/private partnerships to support this work and get products to market The gutting of HHS has decimated R&D and pharma focuses on lifetime rx’s not cures

Big Pharma won’t make any money if we are all cured!

Like China doing the research to cure Diabetes. We'll see if that ever makes it to the U.S. or if it's killed by companies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This sounds uncomfortably like "They've had the cure for cancer for 75 years but..." As if they still wouldn't sell it to Steve Jobs or Linda McCartney Go watch a Neil Breen marathon....

I guess it's split into two procedures (???), one for the heart and one for my stomach vein (aorta?). I also need an MRI on my knee and another on my neck. They absolutely refuse to tell me how much it will cost so I know what my cost will be. So I just don't go. Suffer. Sure, nothing realistic/

You should try it on the other side maybe. They took 9 images of my knee then said "Move your left knee right here so we can get one last shot". Uh, hey it's my right knee! "Oh. Move your right knee here and we'll get that shot and just include the others". My gal pal went in seeking hormone/

This is RFK Jr propaganda. It’s depressingly anti-medicine. I’m sorry for every overworked Doc who will be wasting their time trying to explain to antivaxxers and sheeple that it’s BS. I’m sorry.

Something the corner boys learned long ago... the money is in the 'come back'.

… dealing with the horrifying tragedies of end stage liver disease in the patients who didn’t have access to these treatments, because in the US, the most important thing is that Pharma makes its money. Not the well-being of the people. Never has been. Capitalism is evil. 

Ok but possibly the most annoying video I’ve ever seen

For profit "healthcare" can never work.

Our scientists create these drugs. The problem is with the Corporate overseers that want increasing profits for themselves...

100% market share is still a good incentive to make cures.

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Now we should all go re-read “Oryx and Crake.”

but killing and dying patients are sustainable?

technically an abomination

In the UK a cure for Hep C is available on the NHS. Rough Prevalence rates: UK 0.1% US 0.8% Rough cost per person per year to everyone: UK $5.32 US $67.00

AI is building evidence against these types.

Medical science says it can't "cure" my DVT so it's made me take a blood thinner for THE REST OF MY FUCKING LIFE!!!