Failed to understand "Keep the husk alive and suffering at any cost"

Does "Keep the husk alive and suffering at any cost" mean "keep our good-for-nothing body alive and accept suffering, even if such doing cost us greatly"?

Context:

“If we can selectively detect cancer cells, why can’t we selectively target them?” Cancer is an empire of disseminated fear, unregulated social advocacy, and $trillion annual cashflow. Keep the husk alive and suffering at any cost, for insurance pays any cost. Who dare say "no" to that unction of a mountebank "Make a Wish Foundation"?
Curing and even effectively treating cancer are financial and bureaucratic disasters. War on Drugs confiscations could ease the anguished screams of War on Cancer soldiers marching as to death. It would be immoral. Consider what Homeland Severity makes of targeting the innocent while feigning impotence against the guilty.
Failure is the only zero-risk business plan. Cancer is its profits-oozing poster child. Keep up the bad work.