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Originally posted by punkworld
There isn't more disease now than ever, and most diseases that we have can be either cured or don't have to be deadly anymore.
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Totally untrue. Most diseases cannot be cured, I don't know where you are getting this from. People with a major disease may live longer due to medicine but the disease will usually end up winning. Which goes back to the original argument that it is more profitable to treat symptoms rather than cure.
As far as more disease now, I don't know the statistics of all the various diseases throughout history but the major diseases society faces now are reaching an epidemic stage. A hundred years ago 1 in a 100 developed cancer, now it is estimated 1 in 2 will. Why is this? What I find interesting is a hundred years ago 3/4 of the population smoked, now its about a fourth, yet more people are getting cancer. Furthermore, with all the cancer research and so called cancer breakthroughs more people are dying on a percentage basis from cancer than ever. In 1967 157 per 100,000 people died from cancer, in 1992 204 per 100,000 died. Does that sound like progress to you?
Look at diabetes. The Center for Disease Control now estimates 1 out of every 3 Americans born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes.
These two diseases alone make up for more than 60 percent of all medical treatment. Do you really think the medical machine is interested in curing either of these diseases?