Treat Medicine as a Business where the objective is to make a profit. As has been the Western Standard for the last 100-150 years. We unsurprisingly find ourselves sicker and what medications are developed are focused on managing symptoms rather than curing people.
There’s no money long term in cures. There is however vast quantities of money in repeat customers and managing symptoms. That fundamental financial incentive structure doesn’t change. Regardless of how we dress it up. Or the rhetoric we use to justify it.
I have been on metformin for a couple years, no side effects so far. I boost it with berberine and both have lowered my A1C to acceptable levels. I am pretty active for a 69 year old as i live on a farm, no formal exercise or workouts, just farm stuff. I hate taking any medicine but this seems to work for me. Best of luck, frens!
It's true that medications that can be sold to a patient for decades are more profitable than a cure that works.
But if there were true competition in the medical marketplace, there would be money in cures for the companies that could come up with those cures. A startup that had come up with a cure would be happy to grab the business from the major pharmaceutical companies selling ongoing treatments that only help manage a disease.
The medical cartel keeps out the competition by making it basically impossible for small players to get promising cures tested and approved. Individuals and small companies who come up with promising cures can't afford the very long and expensive testing and approval process required to bring their products to market.
They sell their work to a big pharmaceutical company that can afford it. The big pharmaceutical company then buries the promising cure in the back of the file cabinet so it can go on selling its long-term medications.
would be money in cures for the companies that could come up with those cures. A startup that had come up with a cure would be happy to grab the business from the major pharmaceutical companies selling ongoing treatments that only help manage a disease.
True in this hypothetical. However the startup will also rapidly reach the same conclusion as the pharmaceutical giants. There’s more money in managing long term rather than curing. As the simple fact of the matter is. Most people are going into a Business. Whether it be Medical or otherwise with the intention of making piles of money. Any benefit they bring to their fellow man is a side effect rather than the goal behind it. All you’d really be accomplishing is changing the names of the players. Rather than fundamentally altering the rules of the game.
You can’t keep a Business going long term if you eliminate your clientele’s need for your services. The clientele in this case being the patients.
There would presumably be new people developing the disease they'd found a cure for, so there would still be ongoing business there. It's true it probably wouldn't be as lucrative as providing medication you can never stop taking, but it could still be quite profitable.
If the startup went out of the "providing a cure" business, in a free market, another hungrier startup would take its place.
There are quite a few businesses that don't have regular, ongoing customers. Home builders, colleges, funeral homes, boat sellers, etc. often provide a product or service once per customer and move on to selling to other customers.
Treat Medicine as a Business where the objective is to make a profit. As has been the Western Standard for the last 100-150 years. We unsurprisingly find ourselves sicker and what medications are developed are focused on managing symptoms rather than curing people.
There’s no money long term in cures. There is however vast quantities of money in repeat customers and managing symptoms. That fundamental financial incentive structure doesn’t change. Regardless of how we dress it up. Or the rhetoric we use to justify it.
I have been on metformin for a couple years, no side effects so far. I boost it with berberine and both have lowered my A1C to acceptable levels. I am pretty active for a 69 year old as i live on a farm, no formal exercise or workouts, just farm stuff. I hate taking any medicine but this seems to work for me. Best of luck, frens!
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It's true that medications that can be sold to a patient for decades are more profitable than a cure that works.
But if there were true competition in the medical marketplace, there would be money in cures for the companies that could come up with those cures. A startup that had come up with a cure would be happy to grab the business from the major pharmaceutical companies selling ongoing treatments that only help manage a disease.
The medical cartel keeps out the competition by making it basically impossible for small players to get promising cures tested and approved. Individuals and small companies who come up with promising cures can't afford the very long and expensive testing and approval process required to bring their products to market.
They sell their work to a big pharmaceutical company that can afford it. The big pharmaceutical company then buries the promising cure in the back of the file cabinet so it can go on selling its long-term medications.
True in this hypothetical. However the startup will also rapidly reach the same conclusion as the pharmaceutical giants. There’s more money in managing long term rather than curing. As the simple fact of the matter is. Most people are going into a Business. Whether it be Medical or otherwise with the intention of making piles of money. Any benefit they bring to their fellow man is a side effect rather than the goal behind it. All you’d really be accomplishing is changing the names of the players. Rather than fundamentally altering the rules of the game.
You can’t keep a Business going long term if you eliminate your clientele’s need for your services. The clientele in this case being the patients.
There would presumably be new people developing the disease they'd found a cure for, so there would still be ongoing business there. It's true it probably wouldn't be as lucrative as providing medication you can never stop taking, but it could still be quite profitable.
If the startup went out of the "providing a cure" business, in a free market, another hungrier startup would take its place.
There are quite a few businesses that don't have regular, ongoing customers. Home builders, colleges, funeral homes, boat sellers, etc. often provide a product or service once per customer and move on to selling to other customers.