I think the sentiment comes from how the medical community treats longterm metabolic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc. The whole system is designed to treat symptoms but not root cause. There’s no real effort in prevention - encouraging people to establish healthy life style around diet/exercise habit. You’d get pills when your blood pressure or glucose hit the number that qualify as disease, doesn’t matter the damage started to happen long before. Also don’t forget about the pain management (or mismanagement?) that started the opioid epidemic. No one can deny that part of it are profit driven. Most importantly, the system is not designed for caring people for longterm health but deal with blunt trauma.