Agree. I can speak for oncology where the desire is always curative intent treatments. Unfortunately it’s often not possible so we settle for palliative therapy (presumably what GP meant by recurring).
Personally/professionally I think this argument comes from non-experts failing to understand the disease process and therapeutic challenges. I’ve seen no evidence or suggestion in my years of clinical practice that this assertion has a shred of truth behind it.
> If that argument was true, no one would do vaccines, especially considering that most vaccines are not particularly expensive.
While I agree with you this statement does not prove your argument. Vaccines aren’t a good example of funding for curative intent treatments.
The economics behind vaccinations are different as you vaccinate orders of magnitude more patients than would ever get the disease so even if the nefarious assumption is valid the economics may still favor this path.
Personally/professionally I think this argument comes from non-experts failing to understand the disease process and therapeutic challenges. I’ve seen no evidence or suggestion in my years of clinical practice that this assertion has a shred of truth behind it.
> If that argument was true, no one would do vaccines, especially considering that most vaccines are not particularly expensive.
While I agree with you this statement does not prove your argument. Vaccines aren’t a good example of funding for curative intent treatments.
The economics behind vaccinations are different as you vaccinate orders of magnitude more patients than would ever get the disease so even if the nefarious assumption is valid the economics may still favor this path.