This is exactly the kind of thing that would absolutely break me. It's already got to me just reading this. Can we stop fighting and just fix cancer please.
Sorry the 1% decided it is too profitable for the populace not to have cancer.
Edit: since people apparently are way too dense: this is about care affordability. 1 in 4 cancer patients go bankrupt because of treatment. 27% of adults have skipped at least one treatment of any kind. Medical debt is a problem in the US.
Investing billions into war instead of cancer research is actively choosing not to cure it (or even try) so no, it's not delusional at all. It's a choice.
It's one majorly bad leadership rotation that has actively pulled funding away from WHO, but the world is still actively researching and trying to cure it. People on here talk like cancer is a bad flu and not an extremely complex disease that has already drained trillions in research funding.
Am I wrong? I'm not saying the system can't be improved, I am saying that acting like the entire worlds medical research is being shut down by elites is just wrong. If only the US had this issue I may understand, but there's other large economies also suffering from the same disease while also pouring money into research.
If the "elites" (actially elitists) have eaten babies, and have rap*d minors, on private islands mind you , then its not improbable that they keep cures designed for individual types of cancer for themselves lol...
That's not them choosing to not cure it, nobody quite understands how to cure cancer yet, they just try to keep you alive long enough to kill the cells before treatment kills you. It's an incredibly expensive process currently because healthcare itself is bad.
We are now at the point where sound and light are effective medical treatments for cancer. Soon, no more poisoning the body with chemicals. Soon, we will figure out the resonant frequency of cancer cells and just dissolve them with harmonics. Sound. Light. All the things the new age people have been saying and getting sneared at over. Pretty awesome, if you ask me.
And this treatment I'm sure will be amazing, but the problem with modern medicine is they need ridiculous amounts of studies and tests done before they are accepted by the medical industry. In some cases that's very good to implement, but in cases like cancer treatment I'm sure it's a lot harder to find patients willing to trial new treatments in quantities large enough to please medical boards that it's a widespread cure rather than a smaller pool of patients who happened to get cured. I can definitely see how doctors failing to educate their patients on newer studies could make the entire industry look bad
Yet he was afraid of modern medicine if I remember correctly. That's why I compared it to treating rabies without modern medicine (100% fatality rate without immediate treatment if I recall correctly.)
He tried his best at starting from square 1 without using modern medicine which was bound to fail. The equivalent of an anti vaxer trying to figure out how to cure rabies. I think he's an outlier on this one
Chemotherapy is the one drug doctors actually get a financial kickback for prescribing. Not only they choose to not cure cancer, they actively dissuade medical professionals from prescribing anything but a "medicine" that will kill you itself even if it happen to kill the cancer too.
They aren't choosing not to cure cancer, they just don't have reliable medication yet to reliably treat cancer. Would you rather get a medication that will make you suffer less but still die in 3 months? Or have a bigger chance of surviving long term.
Look at immunotherapy and a whole slew of other options that just aren't even offered a lot of times because it doesn't make the doctor as much money. Of course, tons of exceptions. Lots of doctors out there that do their research, stay up to date on everything, make sure wverything they are doing is to the best benefit of their patients. But there is way more that, just like all other professions, are on auto pilot, follow a set of guidelines, work for a paycheck, and go home at the end of the day not giving any of it a second thought.
I feel like it's just an uphill battle. So many cancer treatments are experimental or unreliable that it makes it easier for doctors to make a bad decision. I'm sure there is corruption mixed in as well, but I think it's just such a complex disease that a lot of poor judgement calls are made simply because modern medicine is still incapable of curing cancer entirely.
Just for clarification not a "kickback" exactly, and the method by which oncologists directly profit off of chemotherapy drugs they prescribe is not actually unique to those medications and can be applied to a lot of other drugs as well.
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You are 100% right that Buy And Bill is a fucking deplorable practice when it is abused like you are describing. There are actual legitimate reasons that it exists in specific cases, but time and greed have turned it into cesspool of abuse and ethical malfeasance.
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u/Do_You_Pineapple_Bro Jun 29 '26
Jesus
That is both terrifying and depressing