The solution that's better is "Actually get me healthy."
And once they have an expensive drug alleviating some of your symptoms while making them stinking rich, you are supposed to quit your bitching and be glad you aren't dead.
Instead, the current state of affairs (where they make a bunch of money off you) is a sort of local maximum and there is very little incentive to research a genuine cure unless such a thing would be more profitable than present day.
In a just world - not the one we live in - medicine would be produced like every other bulk molecule, because that's really what it is. Insulin could cost ~ what you pay for some other complex chemical. But because of patents and various graft protecting industry practices depending on where you live you may be overpaying by many orders of magnitude for something that could be quite cheap.