Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Are We All Just 'Customers' to Healthcare Companies?

1 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A single-speaker YouTube monologue by Vishen Lakhiani arguing that the healthcare industry — including doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies — profits when people remain sick and thus has perverse incentives to treat symptoms rather than cure diseases. The speaker illustrates this with examples (e.g., lifelong diabetes management, drugs causing side effects that require more drugs) and uses a critical, anecdotal tone.

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Everybody in the healthcare industry makes money when you are sick and they don't make a penny when you're healthy. Now I don't believe they are bad people but they have terrible incentive. When you are healthy, your doctor makes no money, hospital makes no money, the pharma company makes no money. It makes them sick. What do they do in turn? They turn around and say I'd rather keep you sick. Every drug they develop is never going to cure a disease. Their job is to suppress the symptom of the disease you have because why if they suppress the symptom, have a lifelong customer, you are young and you have diabetes. They got a box called kaching. Lifetime young customer coming up. Every drug they give you, it has three side effects. What do they do? Fortunately, they have drugs for all three of them. And when you take those drugs now your nine more symptoms, they got drugs for those too. And by the time you get to my age you're popping more pills than blueberries. Sam.