Dave AspreyCreator of Biohacking, Longevity Expert & 4x NY Times Bestselling Author

The Profit Motive Behind the Healthcare Industry.

Name: The Profit Motive Behind the Healthcare Industry.
Uploaded: 2024-03-23T00:30:33+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Dave Asprey
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that every institution influencing public health—particularly the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry—profits more…

23 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that every institution influencing public health—particularly the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry—profits more when people are sick, addicted, or fearful. They highlight that 75% of the FDA’s budget comes from pharmaceutical companies, creating a revolving‑door relationship that aligns regulatory agencies with industry interests. Chronic diseases are portrayed as the greatest profit invention because they require ongoing treatment and generate comorbidities, ensuring continuous revenue streams. The overall claim is that the current "sick‑care" system is structured to maintain illness rather than promote cures.

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So there's actually an unemotional, non hyperbolic, non conspiratorial, very simple answer to that question, which is that every single institution that impacts our health makes more money when more people are sick, when more people are addicted, when more people are in fear, including the FDA, which does not take taxpayer money. 75% of their money comes from the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry makes more money when we're sicker. Chronic diseases are the greatest profit invention in human history because. Because people stay on them and they continue to rack up comorbidities. So fundamentally, because the FDA and the institutions of the regulatory agencies are actually funded and have, as we know, a revolving door with the pharmaceutical industry, they're actually complicit in this sick care system that fundamentally doesn't want us to be back.