Well... Ahem...
I've got to say that's a pretty cynical view of the medical profession, and while I agree that often any business can be motivated by greed and profits - the broad brush you paint the medical profession with is just not in touch with history or reality.
Diabetes was a death sentence before 1920 ... until insulin could be produced.
My mother in law was saved by the advent of Penicillin - wouldn't have married the wife I have or had the great children I have if she hadn't got it - and it had just become readily available in the nick of time.
I have a coworker who was diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis who was pretty much wheel chair bound until a successful diagnosis was made and a drug regimen was prescribed - you wouldn't know she had a problem now.
Many health professional have put themselves in harms way as well, whether working with polio victims in the past, helping wounded soldiers on the battlefield, or working with ebola victims in Africa.
It's easy to take pot shots when your relatively healthy and things are going great - but as soon as your bit by the first rabid animal, or contract tetanus through an infected wound, or even get a need a root canal - the medical profession all the sudden takes on great importance.
But for the grace of God go I.
Certainly there are health care people, and I've know some, who have our best interests at heart. the trouble is that health in this country is not about preventative medicine which should be the foundation of health care. Doctors don't take courses in nutrition and most don't know nutrition. This is not the case in other countries, many who view our medical system as antediluvian.
The basis of human perspective should be from the prevention standpoint, giving a beta blocker for high blood pressure, for example, is the same as putting a band aid on a bloody nose, you have to address why the nose is bleeding.
Today we have type II diabetes showing up in younger and younger children. We know what causes it but very few address it, why do you think that is? Where's the preventative medicine? If I was a doctor I'd be telling people, "if you don't stop smoking I can't help you" because that's the truth.
I lost a brother to cancer relatively young. Sure the doctors kept him alive but his existence was horrendous. My father died of cancer too, keeping him alive was another travesty. I'll die with dignity and not a portable pump in my arm dispensing chemicals to the tune of $100,000.00 a month thank you.
Go read Esselstyn's book on preventing heart disease showing how he reversed it. Go read Colin Campbell,s book (the doctor who spent his life in research) "The China Study".
Your heath is your responsibility, how many ways can I put this? I'll bet everyone here knows who won the SuperBowl but if I asked what has been shown to stop the growth of tumors how many of you would know that? (drinking green tea with quercetin).
This is all a part of self sufficiency.
Evaluate your lives if you want to know how well you'll do.
How much of your food do you pay for? Do you have to shop once a week? Once every two months?
Paying for your health with meds for the rest of your life?
Paying for the energy to heat your home, drive your car?
Paying for the house you live in?
Paying fo that entertainment? Who do you think pays for those multi-million dollar Super Bowl Sunday ads?
Edward Bernays would be proud!
Try this, see how long you can go without paying someone else for your survival. That will tell you right away how well you'll do.
