Too true, unfortunately. Also, sick patients are more profitable than cured ones. Preventative medicine is less profitable than treating a developed disease,

Too true, unfortunately. Also, sick patients are more profitable than cured ones. Preventative medicine is less profitable than treating a developed disease, etc etc etc. The profit incentives in health care are perverse and misaligned, and in many cases delaying healing is more profitable than healing. This is why we need more world-wide government funding of research in curing and preventing diseases. If hypothetically a mixture of apple juice and turpentine were to cure COVID, we may never discover that, because 1) such a mixture would be extremely cheap and easy to make at home, and not really patentable, and therefore unprofitable, and 2) there may never be enough government medical research funding to discover it.