We know the health care industry has a stake in our ill health. This is simply because sick people are the “resource” it needs to make money–and “managing” a condition long term is much more profitable than curing a condition.

A recent article illustrated how this works in the cancer world: The big three drug wholesalers are in a race to buy up large cancer-specialist networks. In return, they get all of a network’s customers, so they have a captive market for their drugs and the ability to “tap into all sorts of fees.”

“Cancer care makes up an increasing portion of health spending,” the article explained, which is why companies are clamoring for a piece of the action. (1) (See also “Wall Street’s Gamble on Your Health“)

But what if we re-imagine health care to fund lifestyle medicine fully, so we can (at least partially) prevent cancer instead of using it as a profit-generating condition? This is the idea behind a #NewEatingCulture.

(1) “Drug Distributors Go All In on Cancer Care, The big three middlemen are racing to buy their customers, becoming vertically integrated medical providers.” WSJ 9/30/24