Big Pharma Wants You Sick

Let’s start with a hard truth: if you got better, they’d lose a customer.

That’s the quiet part Big Pharma rarely says out loud. The part hidden behind the glossy commercials, the compassionate slogans, and the smiling actors tossing footballs in slow motion. But beneath the carefully curated marketing lies a business model that thrives not when you’re healthy—but when you’re just sick enough to need them forever.

Let’s break this down.

A Cure Is a One-Time Sale.

A Treatment Is a Subscription.

Imagine two scenarios:

1. You discover a simple, natural, low-cost method to reverse a chronic illness.

2. You create a daily pill that manages the symptoms but never fully heals the disease.

Which one makes billions?

If you answered #2, congratulations—you’ve just earned a corner office at a major pharmaceutical company. Because curing a disease is not good business. It’s the equivalent of fixing the leaky faucet so well that the plumber never needs to come back. There’s no incentive.

But if you manage that leak—tape it, slow it, monitor it—you create dependency. You become indispensable. You build a pipeline of lifelong customers, each paying month after month for relief that always stays just out of reach.

That’s not medicine. That’s a monetized illness.

They Sell Band-Aids for Bullet Wounds

Take depression. Millions suffer, yet the most commonly prescribed solutions are pills that numb symptoms—not therapies that address trauma, poverty, disconnection, or lifestyle.

Or diabetes. The number of people developing Type 2 skyrockets while ultra-processed food—heavily backed by the same corporations connected to health lobbies—remains cheap and ubiquitous. Instead of regulating food companies, we get a new drug. A better insulin pen. A smartwatch to track your sugar crash.

Or chronic pain. Often rooted in inflammation, stress, poor diet, or environmental toxins—but instead of digging into causes, we get painkillers. Some of which launched an entire opioid epidemic.

Why fix what causes pain when you can dull it... for a price?

Follow the Money

In the United States alone, Big Pharma brings in over a trillion dollars annually. Lobbying expenditures run in the hundreds of millions each year, more than oil, defense, or tech. Why? To protect the system. To keep laws in place that:

• Allow skyrocketing drug prices

• Suppress generic alternatives

• Limit research on non-patentable natural cures

• Downplay side effects

• Fast-track approvals without long-term studies

They don’t want you dead.
They want you barely alive and paying.

Health Is Not Their Goal. Revenue Is.

A truly healthy society doesn’t need endless prescriptions. It needs education, clean food, mental health support, time to rest, space to breathe, communities to belong to. But those don’t fit neatly into blister packs.

What does?
Antacids for the stress-eater.
Statins for the sugar addict.
Stimulants for the overworked teen.
Sedatives for the insomniac adult.
And pills on top of pills for the side effects of the first pills.

It's a loop. And it's not broken—it’s designed that way.

So What Can You Do?

• Ask questions. Don’t take a diagnosis as the end of the road—ask why it happened in the first place.

• Focus on prevention. What you eat, how you sleep, move, love, and rest matters more than any magic capsule.

• Be skeptical of quick fixes. Especially when they come in TV ads.

• Look beyond. Consider integrative, holistic, or functional approaches that prioritize root causes over surface symptoms.

• Support policies and practitioners that promote health, not just medicalization.

Because here’s the bottom line: you are not a profit center.

And the more you reclaim your health, your curiosity, your body—
the less power they have over you.