Morally, this is little better than the drug dealer on the street who understands clearly the necessity for his business of creating drug dependency. In the case of Western medicine, it is not even the case that it may be claimed that they do no harm, medically speaking. For the treatment of disease by the suppression of symptoms rather than the removal of the underlying cause is certain, in time, to generate complications. At that point, my friendly internist would have handed me over to his colleague the cardiologist, who also would go about expertly addressing a small part of the problem, but never the whole. The practice of partial medicine is a hydra-headed monster.
Prevention is better than cure.
Why is it that Black folk suffer more than the rest of the population from hypertension, diabetes, prostate problems, arthritis, breast cancer, fibroid tumors, etc. etc. Western living, with its surfeit of canned, processed, fried, sugared, over-salted food, is deadly, albeit in a slow, insidious way. Our people are dying for a lack of this simple knowledge. Thus bewitched, we pay now, and we pay later, enriching Big Business and Big Medicine, unfortunately to our detriment.