The perfect drug would cost exactly as much as a patient can produce while maintaining themselves. This is not an original or hypothetical example. Treatment is more profitable than cure.
That example is old, overused, and rarely true. For example: How many old filament lightbulbs do you see on the market today?
Many cures have made a lot of money in medicine. Iron lungs used to be expensive to maintain, but vaccines made them unnecessary.
There is plenty of fast and lasting profit in actually curing diseases. The demand for cures is enormous, so successful cures become some of the most valuable medical products ever created.
Examples from medical history where cures were profitable: 1) polio vaccine, 2) hepatitis c antiviral, 3) small pox vaccine, 4) antibiotics, and 5) H. pylori cure for stomach ulcers.
Interesting such an old, trite example went over your head. Classic for a reason and very true imo. Filament lightbulbs were engineered to burn out regularly and require replacement, that doesn’t make the point you’re going for. Broad spectrum antibiotics breed resistant strains and require new formulations, especially when aggressively marketed and overprescribed because more use=more money. Again not a great example. Vaccine development has historically been funded and promoted by government as a cost-effective way of maintaining a workforce, not exactly a shining endorsement of profit motive. I’m genuinely having a hard time believing you’re dumb enough to make these arguments in good faith and kinda done here
Classic move—attacking me because your argument ran out of steam.
Your philistine viewpoint is still under researched and, frankly, unknowledgeable.
Your points don’t make sense. Let’s dig into bulbs, antibiotics and Vaccines from a $ perspective.
Filament light bulbs are gone because someone else sold a more efficient bulb and changed the market…and made boat load of cash and literally made filament bulbs extinct. $
Penicillin and later antibiotics cured deadly infections that once required long hospital stays. These cures transformed modern medicine and became some of the most profitable drugs ever sold.$
Lastly my Vaccines example, Smallpox required endless isolation facilities and caretaking. The vaccine eliminated an entire global disease. It was also massively funded, widely purchased, and financially successful for its creators.$
You forget capitalism is about making money first and foremost. Ask your self if there’s money in a cure for anyone in the market.
The perfect drug would cost exactly as much as a patient can produce while maintaining themselves. This is not an original or hypothetical example. Treatment is more profitable than cure.
That example is old, overused, and rarely true. For example: How many old filament lightbulbs do you see on the market today?
Many cures have made a lot of money in medicine. Iron lungs used to be expensive to maintain, but vaccines made them unnecessary.
There is plenty of fast and lasting profit in actually curing diseases. The demand for cures is enormous, so successful cures become some of the most valuable medical products ever created.
Examples from medical history where cures were profitable: 1) polio vaccine, 2) hepatitis c antiviral, 3) small pox vaccine, 4) antibiotics, and 5) H. pylori cure for stomach ulcers.
Interesting such an old, trite example went over your head. Classic for a reason and very true imo. Filament lightbulbs were engineered to burn out regularly and require replacement, that doesn’t make the point you’re going for. Broad spectrum antibiotics breed resistant strains and require new formulations, especially when aggressively marketed and overprescribed because more use=more money. Again not a great example. Vaccine development has historically been funded and promoted by government as a cost-effective way of maintaining a workforce, not exactly a shining endorsement of profit motive. I’m genuinely having a hard time believing you’re dumb enough to make these arguments in good faith and kinda done here
Classic move—attacking me because your argument ran out of steam.
Your philistine viewpoint is still under researched and, frankly, unknowledgeable.
Your points don’t make sense. Let’s dig into bulbs, antibiotics and Vaccines from a $ perspective.
Filament light bulbs are gone because someone else sold a more efficient bulb and changed the market…and made boat load of cash and literally made filament bulbs extinct. $
Penicillin and later antibiotics cured deadly infections that once required long hospital stays. These cures transformed modern medicine and became some of the most profitable drugs ever sold.$
Lastly my Vaccines example, Smallpox required endless isolation facilities and caretaking. The vaccine eliminated an entire global disease. It was also massively funded, widely purchased, and financially successful for its creators.$
I really hope you’re at least getting paid to post this badly my dude
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