alt Hacker NewsThe healthcare industry, especially in the US, isn't interested in finding cures for disease. It's interested in maximizing profits, which is a goal that the bureaucracy serves.
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Have you ever considered that "finding cures for disease" is really fucking hard to do?
Things that were easy to cure were already cured some time in the past century. What remains is the hard to crack nuts that resist simple scalable methods.
There's money to be had in curing HIV - but good luck pulling that off. Maybe someone will, this century.
Healthy people are more productive, which mean they are better paid, which mean they have more money for healthcare, which means profits for the healthcare industry.
Finding cures is a good way of maximizing profits, the best way actually, and if the healthcare industry is not doing that, it means that something else is stopping them. It can be bureaucracy, it can be just because it is really hard, it can be some systemic problem linked to health insurance and government funding, but I don't see how the healthcare industry wouldn't want to cure people.
It is an industry where demand is guaranteed, diseases in general are not disappearing anytime soon, let alone aging.
The healthcare industry in the US in made up a huge range of individual and organizations, they don’t all have the same motives.
Suggesting otherwise is projecting your own fears not representative of reality.