We know the health care industry has a stake in our ill health. This is simply because sick people are the “resource” it needs to make money–and “managing” a condition long term is much more profitable than curing a condition.<\/p>\n
A recent article illustrated how this works in the cancer world: The big three drug wholesalers are in a race to buy up large cancer-specialist networks. In return, they get all of a network’s customers, so they have a captive market for their drugs and the ability to “tap into all sorts of fees.”<\/p>\n
“Cancer care makes up an increasing portion of health spending,” the article explained, which is why companies are clamoring for a piece of the action. (1) (See also “Wall Street’s Gamble on Your Health<\/span>“<\/a>)<\/p>\n But what if we re-imagine health care to fund lifestyle medicine fully, so we can (at least partially) prevent cancer instead of using it as a profit-generating condition? This is the idea behind a #NewEatingCulture.<\/p>\n (1) “Drug Distributors Go All In on Cancer Care, The big three middlemen are racing to buy their customers, becoming vertically integrated medical providers.” WSJ 9\/30\/24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We know the health care industry has a stake in our ill health. This is simply because sick people are the “resource” it needs to make money–and “managing” a condition long term is much more profitable than curing a condition. A recent article illustrated how this works in the cancer world: The big three drug … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6531,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}