Rid The World Of Disease When Big Pharma Arrives On Switch Later This Year

May keep an eye out on this one if it’s good. I’m mainly focusing on Two Point Hospital’s release for now, but if this game gets good reviews I may pick it up.

Wouldn't Big Pharma be spreading disease? I guess one's answer depends on how much one is invested in profits versus getting life saving medicine to the sick or injured. (Sorry, I've been watching U.S. primary debates so I'm primed to think of this stuff!)

@SpicyBurrito16 Its a darn fun, little time sink. Played a bit on PC. Now... did you say Two Point is coming to Switch?

Interesting idea for a game. Kind of like the exact reverse of that game where you design a virus and try to wipe out humanity.

But Big Pharma wants anything but to rid the world of disease. The Pharmaceutical industry is one of the most profitable industries in the world because there is no end to human suffering. I don't buy into the conspiracy that they actually already have the cures for everything, but I do believe the idea that they'd bury them if they did, and only the rich and powerful would ever see them.

I really wish Atlus would think of making a new Trauma Center. I'd love to perform some anime surgery again.

@PhilKenSebben
Oh yeah, Two Point hospital is coming to consoles latter this year. One of the consoles being the Switch.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/comical_business_sim_two_point_hospital_scores_a_2019_switch_release

I’ll wait for the Sim Hospital successor.

@Heavyarms55 Looks like a decent game, also seems a bit similar to the restaurant game that recently came out where you automate food production.
Yeah, public corporations are legally required to maximize profits for shareholders. Serving the common good is what all healthcare related stuff should be about. No enterprise should exist that profits off killing people, which is what rapacious health insurance corporations and big pharma do. It's violent theft on a massive scale.

Looks promising but I would prefer to get Factorio or Infinifactory instead.

@60frames-please Right? I understand the argument that "If there was no incentive people aren't inclined to innovate." So I wouldn't say profit off of medical things should be banned or anything, but it should only be based on excess. The idea of having to sell everything you own to buy a few more months of misery before the cancer kills you and leaves your family in debt is wretched! That didn't happen to my family but it's not exactly rare either.

The company that produced one of the medications that my father was was (that ultimately killed him before the cancer could) was raking in tens of millions of dollars a year in pure profit beyond their operating costs. It's executives were all multi-millionaires and lived lives of extravagance built with money "earned" from selling poison to the dying.

@60frames-please Its disgusting. I work in the medical field and have seen it my whole working life, and now get to experience it, due to my own health issues.

The name of the game is probably the biggest oversight of the developer and publisher. Big Pharma is the rallying term used to criticize the pharmaceutical industry and its many problems (all of which are serious concerns for everyone). Whoops.

Trying to get the jump on Two Point Hospital? Interesting.

Big pharma working on eradicating disease, now that's what I call a fantasy game.

Cya
Raziel-chan

"..some remedies are more profitable than others and illness is good for business."

Shareholders are the biggest beneficiaries of big pharma profits and dictate policy. Retirement funds are the biggest shareholders. They need stable and profitable stocks, so they insist on investment in the most profitable medicines, which often do not include those suffered by the poorest populations who cannot afford to pay much.

Also leads to price gouging in the US. Someone has to pay for Grandma's pension and without a general pot to take from, it's the unlucky who get ill.

Id love to see plague inc on switch...

From the characters shown on the opening of the video, I thought I was looking at Pandemic (the board game) at first.

@Heavyarms55 I'm sorry to hear about your father. I wish you peace.
The greed has to be ended with renewed dedication to science, the common good, and just basic idealism. Much research is done at universities and the National Institutes for Health. Research must be completely liberated from financial interests and profit seeking. If we are going to keep markets, corporations, and Capitalism then they must serve as an engine moving everyone forward, not cancerous monsters buying elections, profiting off denying care, and profiting off poisoning soil, water, and air. Also, we have to recognize that these inequalities and injustices necessarily take a mental health toll on everyone involved. Even though it's so difficult to change these things, they are not natural. It's not natural or normal to have this state of affairs.

@Wavey84 I think it can be useful to use both, just depends on the illness and circumstance. Some people won't be culturally or emotionally responsive to allopathic medicine in some cases, while other won't respond well to naturopathic.

@PhilKenSebben I'm sorry to hear you're having to deal with health issues. I wish you well.
Yeah, I've worked in healthcare and seen profit maximization destroy jobs and care that patients and their families benefited from. It's got to be transformed.

@PharoneTheGnome I've had a lot of fun playing Pandemic. Great board game!

@60frames-please I appreciate that. I miss my father all the time but some of the rage I felt toward his doctor has faded. Though I am still grateful I live on the other side of the planet and scared of what I would say or do if I ever see him again.

I don't think there is anything wrong with profiting off of research. The problem comes from milking the suffering. People like to counter my point with "what is your life worth to you?" But it strikes me as pure cruelty to take advantage of someone who is dying and let them sell everything they own, even put them and their family into debt for treatment that still might fail.

I understand having to charge if the company actually needs the money to do the treatment, and I even do think doctors and researchers deserve a very healthy paycheck because their work is vital. But it sickens me when they take it in excess and get extravagantly wealthy from the suffering of the people they are supposed to be helping. When I hear of executives at these drug companies who are multi millionaires and yet, they've driven some, even many of their patients into bankruptcy before they died... Pure capitalism is cold and unjust. As humans, as a society, we need to balance our personal good and the good of society, but pure capitalism doesn't care, it's all about making the most money for yourself and maybe your personal group.

I have a very negative view of humans. I believe that if they have no enforced reason to, people will generally not care about anyone outside their immediate social circle. Sometimes not even anyone but themselves. That's why people can get wealthy off of things like the sick and dying or selling weapons of war. "It's not hurting my group, it's even helping us. Why should I care what happens to someone else?"

@Heavyarms55 I got all that, and thank you.
I wholeheartedly agree with what you say about profiting off war/weapons.

@severian, I think the name is intended....for just the reason you state.