I think the issue is a little more complicated than a monolithic goal of one industry or another. Most people are good and want to do good.
It has taken evil people working their way into the processes of good and distorting them to turn entire systems evil.
Of course… Modern medicine isn't some brand new thing that sprouted fifty years ago. Everything usually has a tie-in to some earlier practice or institution and thus there isn't something so convenient as day the system was created.
I do think the ethical quandary of doctors has been around for quite some time… A cured customer is not a returning customer. "Working yourself out of a job" is a statement that has a very different implications for doctors - and one I'm not entirely sure how to solve. On the surface - I say that if we have cures - use them. On the other hand, I do recognize that we can't just eliminate the means by which an entire profession lives.
…. There again… I've seen doctors dump a million dollars into yachts to go race in a lake next to people living in pallets wrapped in saran wrap for a shelter (this is in America) … So… I'm sometimes not quite sure how to deconflict my feelings and my assessment of things. When there is illness, we need doctors to help resolve the symptoms or find cures. It's an invaluable service and one that commands a sacred position within society. Yet I get the distinct impression the system has migrated toward profit over people.
I should say… I know it has….
There is a job classification known as a "coder" in hospitals. Their job is to find every possible way to upcharge the service. If the radiologist comes by to look at your chart while you are asleep - charged as if you made an appointment. If you took one pill, you get charged for the bottle. They have even started to teach doctors how to write their reports so that certain terms are used which can be billed as more expensive services.
It's not necessarily the doctors doing this, but the system in which they generally have to operate. Hospitals lost their fucking minds over the insurance disclosure EO.
Somehow… People have gotten so concerned that they are not going to get what they feel they are owed that it has led to an inordinate amount of callousness and indifference.