The most profitable patient is one with a chronic (highly functioning) illness, not a cured one.

When I lived in the US I was always amazed by the amount of ads for painkillers and other fixes. I came to the understanding that healthcare for many was not about curing people, but about making people able to work. I've never seen so many people with chronic illnesses poorly addressed as in the US.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html

#healthcare #business #LateStageCapitalism

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'

Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.

^{Tae Kim (CNBC)}

Latest comic: What did we learn from Covid?

#covid #COVID19 #coronavirus #cartoon #health #healthcare #pandemic #comic

The Borderlands (both sides) looked resplendent today. What a fine part of the world.

#scotland #england #scottishborders #northumberland #dailywalk #lawyer #law #scotslaw #scotslawyer #rural #ruralbusiness #healthcare #nhs #renewables #propertydevelopment #photography #andydrane

The good news: We have a breakthrough cure for sickle-cell disease, using CRISPR and gene-editing technology.

The bad news: It’s owned by a private company that will charge $2.2M for a course of treatment.

Pharmaceutical research should be publicly-funded, and its results should go directly into public domain, where private providers can compete on price for manufacture and distribution. For a fraction of the money we spend on missiles and remote military bases, we can save so many lives instead.

“FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR”

#healthcare #medicine #capitalism

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-cure-sickle-cell-disease-first-treatment-use-gene-editing-rcna127979

FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR

The FDA approved a new treatment for sickle cell disease. The therapy is first to use the ground-editing tool CRISPR.

^{Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)}

"Incentives matter!"

"Goodhart's Law holds that 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.'"

"Give an MBA within HCA a metric ("get patients out of bed quicker") and they will find a way to hit that metric ("send patients off to die somewhere else, even if their doctors think they could recover")"

From: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any-metric-becomes-a-target/

This is so depressing, @pluralistic ☹️

#healthcare

A nation that fails to keep its citizens alive is a failing nation. That is the US today.

#healthcare #cultureWars #inequality

Gender-affirming care—for ADULTS—is now predictably under attack in #Texas. This is part of a Republican plan of genocide underway against #trans people. We need cis allies to be loud and angry on our behalf. Pay attention, this doesn't end here or with us:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/25/transgender-health-care-legislature/ via @texastribune

#LGBTQIA+ #transgender #transphobia #HumanRights #Healthcare #news #Politics #TXlege #USpol #gender

Trans Texans’ access to transition-related care threatened by Senate bill

The Senate advanced a bill that could create such high financial risks for doctors and health insurers that they’d stop providing or covering gender-affirming care — even for adults.

^{Alex Nguyen (The Texas Tribune)}