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

Are We All Just 'Customers' to Healthcare Companies?

2 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Vishen Lakhiani argues that healthcare companies profit from keeping people sick. Doctors, hospitals, and drug makers earn money only when patients need treatment, so the system suppresses symptoms instead of curing disease. One drug's side effects trigger another prescription, trapping people in a cycle of pills.

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Everybody in the healthcare industry makes money when you are sick and they don't make a penny when you are 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, they 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 dressed for those too. And by the time you get to my age, you're popping more pills than blueberries.