🚩 Brigham Buhler on How Our Current Healthcare System Monetizes Chronic Disease & How to Change It
"If I can monetize your diabetes, why would I cure or prevent your diabetes? And I know if I'm a bigwig at United or Cigna, that you're going to switch jobs in three years. And by the time that diabetes leads to metabolic disease and a cascade effect that puts you in a hospital, that costs me more money, you're somebody else's problem. Or if I can stall it long enough, you're the federal government's problem. And so every aspect of healthcare is focused on that quarter…Russell Brand said this, and he was spot on. Another guy who's not a clinician but understood what's going on here. If we make things about profits and quarterly earnings and big business and not patient outcomes, don't be shocked when we get phenomenal quarterly earnings and piss poor patient outcomes."
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