Sick people are more profitable than healthy ones (MAHA Movie Feb 2026)
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- Curing patients is not a sustainable business model – Goldman Sachs
- "A customer cured is a customer lost"
- "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it”
- In 2013, a medical clinic went out of business after patients achieved >80 ng of Vitamin D
- 5000 IU Vitamin D daily resulted in lower health care costs - RCT
- Severe asthmatics willing to pay 5180 dollars for relief, Vitamin D needed costs only 45 dollars
- Vitamin D has been found to be cost-effective by many studies
- ~$4,000 less health care costs annually if supplemented with 5 dollars of Vitamin D
- Cost savings with Vitamin D
- Proof that Vitamin D Works
- One pill every two weeks gives you all the vitamin D most adults need
The medical establishment wants ongoing treatments, not cures
- Hospitals: poor health = more visits and longer visits
- Doctors and nurses: poor health = more visits and longer visits
- Big Pharma: prefers ongoing income for the rest of the person's life
- Pharmacies get their income from prescription drugs, and do not even sell supplements
- Insurance companies can charge a percentage of the annual health care costs - the higher the annual cost, the more the profit.
- The US HHS, CDC, Medicare, and Medicaid each get more money when the patient is not cured
- Groups focusing on a disease do not actually want it to be easily prevented or treated:
- Breast and other Cancers, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Diabetes, etc.
There are some possible ways to change the incentives
- Concierge doctors can benefit by preventing health problems with Vitamin D
- What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy - TedTalk 2017
- “A frequently repeated story about traditional Chinese medicine says that people paid their doctor to keep them healthy and stopped paying if they became ill.”
- Individuals can embrace Vitamin D and then tell others about the benefits they got