If the medical industrial complex (cancer division) is about to price itself out of the market, why not just cure the disease and get it over with. That would free up accountants for the diabetes division, the viral diseases division (common cold, watch out), and the life extension division.
If nobody died on cue the United States would quickly go bankrupt and the world would enter a Dark Age. If we didn't have cancer we'd have to invent it. Such is the price of socialism.