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Disease Multiple
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Will medicine ever recover from the perverse economics of drugs? | by Clayton Dalton, Aeon Essays, August 7, 2018
Will medicine ever recover from the perverse economics of drugs? | by Clayton Dalton, Aeon Essays, August 7, 2018
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This landscape, wherein patients with chronic disease take dozens of pills daily in a kind of détente with their illness, isn’t the product of some conscious conspiracy by the pharmaceutical industry. Rather, it’s a landscape that follows naturally from the premise that healthcare should be an industry, not a service. Healthcare in the US is not likely to rid itself of its obeisance to the market any time soon. But what if financial incentives could be co-opted to address the lifestyle factors underlying chronic disease? What if we could make those interventions lucrative somehow?