This x100000
I grew up around hospitals and know what they do well and what they don’t.
They’re good with emergency procedures like a ruptured appendix, and repair jobs like knee surgery.
They don’t do disease well as their only treatment protocol is prescription drugs.
Former healthcare here and I would agree. I'll provide some additional context:
1) most/all disease would be improved or even cured with lifestyle changes. As i'm sure you can imagine, american adults aren't real good about making lifestyle changes - just look at allthe people who are overweight. So you do the next best thing which is manage it via medication .. far easier to pop a pill than to eat better or exercise.
2) medical interventions that aren't pharmaceutical-based are gonna be labor- and time-intensive. Hospital networks are looking to maximize their bottom line so they run bare-bones staffing numbers, which means you wont have staff on hand to carry out these other interventions.