Incentives drive ill health

Teachable moment    explains why billing codes and other healthcare and food system structures incent actions detrimental to public health 

A system based on billing codes determined by never-ending stays on prescription medications is core to the problem. The business model of healthcare companies relies on long-term sick patients staying in the system- not getting better. Though 90% of the cost of chronic disease reflects diet and lifestyle, prescription drugs are the solution of choice. Physicians who base their practices on diet and lifestyle solutions are gaslighted and wimpified. Somehow diet and exercise are labeled as elitist, ableist, and racist.

Why is it in Government’s interest to keep people sick?

It’s not a conspiracy theory. Follow the money.

Pharmaceutical companies underwrite eighty percent of medical school budgets. Many medical school deans receive six-figure or more payments from the industry.

Industry quality measures predicate how many patients doctors can get on medication and keep them there.

Long-term medical assistance rather than cures are the North Star of industry standards.

Americans’ health suffers in exchange for steady profits flowing into the prescription drug and processed food industries.