Baumol's cost disease: Anyone here not buy it?

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badgenome said:

In fact, the same has happened with medicine as diseases that could once be dealt with only through invasive surgery (or simply suffered through) can now be treated with a simple pill.

Pills usually just hide symptoms.  Do you mean shots like shots for polio, smallpox, etc?  Because I don't see that many pills curing diseases.  Take a pill for one symptom then take a pill for the negative symptoms of that pill, then take another pill for the negative symptoms of the previous pill, then take another pill just for the fuck of it.

Eating a diet of foods we are supposed to eat (whole foods such as a fruits, veggies, nuts, and very little processed foods, meats) is far better than any "magical" bs pill the pharmaceutical industries can come up with.