[vmfunction]

>There is more money to be made by stakeholders treating health problems than there is in preventing them. And so there is a lot more money and effort invested in developing pharmaceutical and treatment solutions than there is in preventing them – even though that would be far, far better for society as a whole.

The health care system in US is very broken. This paper [1] really outlines. It not just more money made in treating health problems than prevention. Due to the health insurance is structured in US, there is also an incentive for doctors to prescribe the more expensive treatment instead of the cheaper more effective treatment.

https://pubmedinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Is-US-Heal...

[dTal]

Neatly skewered 3 decades ago in the Sunday funnies: https://www.gocomics.com/outland/2023/01/16

It is depressing how many of those comic strips are still relevant today.