The Medical/Industrial Complex, from Big Pharma to the HMOs are all about profit. Patients are not people, they're assets to be capitalized upon. Disease is not an enemy, it's an opportunity to profit from more tests than necessary and more drugs than are healthy. In my hometown there is a medical center that was once a full service hospital built by the greatest physician ever to live in Western North Carolina. But after Dr. Angel pass away his hospital was "acquired" by a not-for-profit medical organization out of Asheville. Then they sold out two years ago to Hospital Corporation of America. Now Angel Medical Center doesn't even deliver babies. It is a place where healthy people go to get sick and eventually die.