Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Incentives in a profit driven health industry

We are taught to believe that the "health" industry (which consists, and is mostly controlled by drug companies making hundreds of billions of dollars off drug sales) wants to make us all well so we won't need their products. 

And they're also the ones who make the vaccines given to babies, kids and adults, so we supposedly won't need their services down the road to deal with illness, chronic or acute.

This is pollyanna thinking, sadly.

It just doesn't reflect the world we are living in.

Profit maximization remains the goal of a profit driven industry, not childish notions of a profit-sacrificing benevolence, that just doesn't exist, except in the fantasy world of the widespread propaganda we are fed.

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