Goldman asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
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Goldman asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
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@knittingknots2 Planned obsolescence for people…..
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@lawyersgunsnmoney what they want is to treat chronic conditions, where you have to keep taking it, instead of curing you.
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This is not an Onion article.
"...the success of its hepatitis C franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients... In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”
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@knittingknots2 @lawyersgunsnmoney
Yup. Relieve suffering a little and extend your lifetime, and maybe not even relieve suffering, just keep you alive so that you can keep forking out thousands per month.
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
And we now get a window into their thinking about vaccines, the ultimate anti-capitalist drug. Think of all the expensive medicines that people who don't get polio are never going to buy. All the potential 'franchises' that are not 'sustained'.
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The Sleight Doctor 🃏replied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration @knittingknots2 Similar to how, other than the wealthy, your bank's ideal customers are those poor enough to always be in debt, but smart enough with money to somehow always make regular payments. Those are the ones it can ruthlessly milk for interest indefinitely into the future. To the bank, they're a steady income.
Under the USA's private health system, being neither sick enough to die nor well enough to go without treatment means someone profits from keeping you that way.
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to The Sleight Doctor 🃏 last edited by [email protected]
@ApostateEnglishman @knittingknots2
Kind of like the corporate tech industry, if you think about it. Full of products designed not to solve your needs, but to keep you hooked and off balance.
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Steve Popovichreplied to The Sleight Doctor 🃏 last edited by
@ApostateEnglishman @mastodonmigration @knittingknots2 that's been said for many years in corporate healthcare...here's a statement from 2018 (!) that's been making the rounds again lately, about how curing patients isn't a sustainable business model. Evil!! https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
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@mastodonmigration This is the type of thing we need more people to be aware that the health industry is thinking...
Also explains so much of the rage at them out there from those dealing with this mindset.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Never seen it from that angle. So anti-vaxxers are actually paid by Big Pharma so people get more diseases and need even more medication than just the vaccines.
This is seriously hard to refute, both from pro and anti vax perspective
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Indeed. It does not come as a surprise, but to see them spell out what amounts to willful systemic murder for profit is still pretty shocking. Thank you for posting it. Still trying to digest the implications of such brazen ghoulishness.
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@mastodonmigration really. But we need to scream it from the rooftops what they're saying.
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No matter how incredible and shocking something seems, if you follow the money and it sort of makes sense, you need to acknowledge the possibility. So much of how we got here is due to a failure of imagination as to how our accepted social norms and standards can be abused for power and profit.
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Absolutely!
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, exactly. And we know the incoming US government is basically all billionaires whose only goal is to milk the plebs for even more money.
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And you can bet they are hiring experts from Goldman Sacks, McKinsey and Deloitte to run the numbers on the profit potential for things like bird flu, malaria, covid and even TB and polio. It's a veritable gold mine out there.
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@mastodonmigration @knittingknots2
Bring back the bubonic plague franchise!
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Wizard Bear (💉x8 + 😷)replied to Steve Popovich last edited by
@sspopovich @ApostateEnglishman @mastodonmigration @knittingknots2 Just another reason that health care should never be privatized. It isn't supposed to be profitable. It is supposed to help keep people from getting sick and dying. My 2 cents...
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The business opportunities a resurgence of leprosy would create are positively mind bending.
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