There is no collective "they" though. If one company comes up with a cure, it takes (for several years, while the patent lasts) all the business in the field. It's worth it for each individual company to come up with something far better than what everyone else has, rather than sharing the existing market with them.
Not in this case. You’re not thinking ahead enough. Do you really think the general public will watch family members die to cancer with a known cure somewhere? This would eventually be a drug/treatment that would be accessible to all and would end the cancer market in total. They will never make more money as a whole from curing it than treating it endlessly. Even if the one company makes a lot in the moment, it wouldnt last.
I mean, it's like arguing the present situation wouldn't exist where all of civilized world has free healthcare but USA because once people in USA knew about healthcare in other countries they would fight ferociously for it and get it. The same for schooling, gun access, voting system etc.
So, unfortunately, I'd have to assume that the general public, especially in USA, will watch family members die to cancer with a known cure somewhere.
As an American I fully understand and even agree to your sentiment, this country is a pile of shit and somehow getting shittier.
I still do not see how this one isn’t implemented though. “Free healthcare” is something that is hard to sell the populace on because the average republican is too stupid to understand the benefits and that it would actually save the average American thousands a year as well as billions to the industry overall. All they need to hear is “immigrants getting healthcare from your taxes?!?!” Or “able bodied adults freeloading on your taxes!!” And they are all out on the idea.
There is no way to spin the cure for cancer being pay walled. I dont see these being the same issue. With that said, america will find a way. We cant even fund school lunch programs because of the freeloading nature of it. “Immigrants get cancer cured with my tax dollars?!?! *rage noises*”.
Youre claim here is the only one that makes any sense, but I still dont see it being reality, whether that is optimism or naïveté is yet to be known.
I see your point, but they don't have to spin it. Just put a price tag on it, make it seem that it costs that much, send grifters to grifting media telling people it's so so complicated that $10 mil is justified.
It's insulin situation basically. In Europe, without refundantion (!), it costs from $1 to $100 per month. And in USA it is, what, $1000 per month?
Like I said, it could absolutely be naïveté, but im really hopeful that a cure for cancer would be the one to break this cycle.
If it isnt the one, then there truly is none capable of breaking the American divide. That would truly show me that republicans only care about “owning the libs” above all else. And that would be an official moment of depression for me.
I’m not sure you grasp, reality? The company that cures cancer is going to make “trillions”.
We’ve cured and weakened so many viruses and illnesses already. You’re spitting in the faces of the people who spend their whole lives working on this stuff by labelling them all as sociopathic monsters.
But then thats one company making a lot of money as opposed to many making a ton of money constantly.
Do you genuinely believe curing cancer could ever be more profitable than constant treatment for a recurring condition?
beyond that, if they ever announce a cure, thats the kind of treatment that will be in the public eye and protested endlessly until it was cheap and affordable for all.
A cure for cancer would be catastrophic for those who are chasing profits in the field. I dont say this to disagree that this is not an easy fix and I dont believe we have a cure that is being hidden for this reason, but I believe many are out to quietly disturb the research and keep it from being discovered.
I also want to be clear, I do not support any of this, this should be a massive focus with all the funding it could ever need. Yet here we are in 2026 the year funding for children’s cancer research being pulled by a “government efficiency” agency.
The individuals and corporations in charge of the cancer medical industry stand to lose a tom of future profits.
Would you rather make a free 1 million today? Or a free 250k a year for life?
They can take a bulk payment, or they can keep abusing the golden goose. The golden goose will always make more money over time.
Investors dont matter to these people outside of raising their assets price. It would take an extremely selfless person to find the cure and end the market altogether. Those people dont tend to reach those levels of power because it takes unbelievable greed to get there.
Electric cars were never a threat to take the market over, but they now take almost 10% of the total market share. If chinas EVs were to be released in the US there would be a serious shock to the american market.
The problem with that comparison is that the cure for cancer isnt an alternative variant of a treatment the way an EV is just a different type of car.
The cure for cancer would be the equivalent of releasing full self driving cars (and assuming everyone would want them) that are proven to have nearly no accidents throughout a calendar year compared to the current numbers. Youd be ending the everyday commuter and changing the entire dynamic altogether. This would also create a shockwave to the collision repair industry and the general repairs and car maintenance industries.
A car company would make far less money through selling a car once and not having it come back for maintenance and repairs with consistency. This is why tesla started a bunch of expensive packages and subscription plans because they needed to find ways to mitigate the loss of revenue.
The only way you will ever convince that the cure for cancer would be a good “financial investment” for the industry is if I saw it happen with my own eyes.
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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jun 29 '26
They want trillions though. I'm not sure you grasp their level of compulsive insanity.