Healthcare Should Focus More on Keeping People Healthy and Less on Profits.

Pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. have too much power, and they are too interested in making money. They do not care about the health of the citizens of this country. If an illness does not affect a large part of the population there is no research into cures. Pharmaceutical companies are only interested in finding medications for wide-spread illnesses. ALS is one example. It should not matter how many people have a devastating illness like ALS. The pharmaceutical companies are not interested in it, because they would not make enough money. Pharmaceutical companies pay doctors to prescribe their medications, and they put pressure on the doctors to prescribe their drugs. The doctors who accept this money should take responsibility for their part in this broken system. There are medications are much more expensive in the U.S. than they are in other countries. Pharmaceutical companies put a lot more money into merchandising than they do into research. Many times a less expensive medication might be more effective, but a more expensive medication will be more widely to be prescribed. The focus of the healthcare system should be on keeping people healthy, but it is on making money. The Affordable Care Acts had done some to help, but a lot more needs to be done to fix the broken healthcare system in the U.S. The cost of needed medical tests needs to be reduced. We are told that after a certain age we need to have regular colonoscopies, but the cost of this test is much more than most people can afford even with health insurance. Good healthcare needs to be affordable for all people. More reform is desperately needed.