The lucrative business of diseases

The pharmaceutical industry would theoretically mission is to improve the living conditions of the people, has assumed wholly incompatible goals for this purpose. People are seen as a market to be conquered and to the increase in life expectancy is part of a strategy to leverage this market.

Let's look at some of the adopted procedures to increase the profitability of companies in the industry:

• Encourage religious mysticism which has proved a valuable contributor to avoid scientific research that could prevent diseases that are highly profitable;

• Increase the existing synergistic action with the food industry, highlighting the results that are being obtained in anticipation of degenerative diseases;

• Invest more in disseminating drugs to combat the symptoms of chronic diseases by supporting organizations that associate these patients, and stimulate the consumption of highly profitable drugs;

• Increase the association with medical research institutions without measuring efforts in this area, given that generates excellent returns on market terms;

• Encourage purchases made by government health organizations, not so much by the sale itself, but to avoid that these resources are used in prevention programs, restrictive consumer market;

• Only the intended application of advertising dollars of food and drugs for vehicles that do not disclose issues that affect the consumer market for drugs.