• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    yet somehow people think “big Pharma” is hiding “the cure for cancer” because they make more money from chemo and shit. “big Pharma” is not a monolith - the developer of the treatment (and stockholders) would make tons of money from it.

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      15 hours ago

      I’ll say this over and over until I’m dead.

      If you want people to stop believing conspiracy theories about the health industry, stop making it so damn easy.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      But only until the patents expire. They’ll run out of cancers to fix and then the money train is over. Not curing things pays off forever.

      Also, if a cancer treatment that cures you is $200, 000, but a cancer treatment that might put you into remission or might cause you to die costs $175,000, your insurance company will only help pay for the $175k one.

      Unless a CEO was recently shot.

      • ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 day ago

        When advantageous to your position, I am 100% sure that you would say that they only care about next quarter. But now companies care about decades in the future when oatents expire?