The medical industry makes billions in revenue from all the treatment they provide to people with the disease and all the doctors and other higher ups get big fat paychecks. A cure would ultimately defeat that purpose, effectively ending their limitless income. That's the theory. Do you agree or disagree with it?
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1 :
i agree the u.s has alot of secrets and its taking all of us into debt well eventually
2 :
It's way more likely the cure for stupidity is being hidden. How could you keep a secret that big hidden? -Also, if a cure was out there, unprotected sex would NOT be an issue and people would have AIDS like they now have Herpes EXCEPT they'd be able to get "fixed" and continue having unprotected sex. They'd actually make more money in giving a cure. I mean, how can you charge someone for medical treatment if they're dead?
3 :
That is SAD!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think so, only because you know 1 or 2 doctors would have a heart.... and could potentially mess up the whole scheme of things... unless only 1 or 2 knew about the cure... but what would be the point of having made the cure?
4 :
YES, for the reasons you just explained.
5 :
That is very interesting indeed. I disagree. I believe if there is a cure for AIDS it won't affect their income. People will still get AIDS and they will still make money curing them with the cure. Once a cure is found for AIDS it will take decades before the strain is depleted.
6 :
Disagree. As you stated, they make quite a lot of money because the treatment is SO expensive (Like 15000$ a year while producing it costs 350$). But being so expensive not many people use it. The cure would still cost a lot of money and would be bought by MUCH more governments and people. And finally there's the ethical factor, I know lots of drug companies lack it, but being the one that discovers the cure of AIDS would gain unending fame and quite an income not to release it for more money.
7 :
I tend to disagree... I think the rationale is there, but I also have confidence in the decency of human nature and professional integrity of medical practitioners. Moreover, I think the same reasoning can be applied to the treatment of any other malady, yet effective remedies and/or innoculations are marketed in those cases -- polio, for example.
8 :
I think there has been a cure for HIV and AIDS for over a decade. But our wonderful government has repressed it. Because of that BILLION dollar figure that you mentioned
9 :
there is no way a drug company is going to silence a cure for anything,period.they are publicly owned and a "cure" for anything makes the stock rise
10 :
a real cure needs allot of scientists working on it. if a cure was found, allot of people would know it. it would be a merely impossible act, to silence all the people. btw: a company with the cure could take anything for it, plus the p.r.-effect would be so immense, that it would be more profitable to release the new drug, than to hide it. i don't think that a cure would be hhidden.
11 :
Interesting. I disagree with this idea, which had been going around a lot recently. As someone else said, how could anyone keep something that big hidden?
12 :
I Agree.The cure has been found, sure it's found in the Amazon Rainforest. Fat paychecks should go to the indigenous people of the Rainforest Tribes.
13 :
Sorry, but that makes little sense. First off, medical breakthroughs are published in publicly available periodicals. Secondly, there are scientists working for multiple countries and many companies trying to find the cure. Only a few companies produce the AIDS treatments, so other companies have a strong competitive reason to try and make money by finding and selling a cure. If you did a little research on how the AIDS virus works, and just how quickly it mutates, you would understand why it is such a difficult virus to stop. We don't even have cures for the Common cold or the Flu, and new strains come out every year. I would gladly pay for a cure, every time I got the Flu or a cold.
14 :
Yes. There was a famous actor that went to France. He was to return for followups but did not. He died. I have had friends in the early years that got it and were dead in 6 months. They have a cure. You have a few million?
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