[lbo-talk] Re; Diabetes: prevention is costly

[Grace Loehr]

There are other examples of this in health care.  I've read before  
(don't have references at hand) that the industries which produce the  
greatest amount of chemical industrial pollution and cause many forms  
of cancer, including breast cancer, are the same ones which also  
manufacture chemotherapeutic agents.  These companies jump on the pink  
ribbon bandwagon and play the politics of breast cancer, without  
publicly acknowledging their culpability in creating these horrible  
diseases.

Grace

quoth Joanna:
The profits of destruction:

"It's almost as though the system encourages people to get sick and then
people get paid to treat them," said Dr. Matthew E. Fink, a former
president of Beth Israel.

....another footnote to medicine for profit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial5/ 
11diabetes.html?hp&ex=1137042000&en=cd460f68e115fc6e&ei=5094&partner=hom 
epage