the difference between pharma and health insurance for me is that pharma at least provides goods and services to help people live while health insurance is some fucking made up bullshit designed to kill people by denying care
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Pharma is to PBMs what Providers are to health insurance. The latter in both are middlemen that increase our prices and make the system work less effectively, in direct contradiction to why they exist in the first place.
there are a lot of scientists and HCPs working in pharma because they are excited to make advances in medical science that could cure diseases, alleviate symptoms, improve patients’ quality of life
what’s the motivation to work in health insurance? to make life worse for patients?
literally everyone working in health insurance is dedicated to the mission of SERVING THE ECONOMY, and specifically the economic interests of the wealthy
in pharma, there are still many folks driven by a mission of SERVING PATIENTS (and even the evil execs will stand by that as a talking point)
I work in a biopharma company and that’s exactly right. If there wasn’t the prospect of saving lives and changing the world for the better, it would be like any other corporate job. I’m enormously thankful that I can go to work every day and feel that it’s truly meaningful work even when it’s hard.
I think that most of the people in my field feel the same way. Many of us would probably be in the nonprofit world, or in education, or in allied health fields if there weren’t pharma careers available.
Agree, I think people would understand the health world better if they made a distinction between “providers” and “middle-men”. You need providers but you may argue with them on the price. Middle-men only extract value and can be removed from the system
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what’s the motivation to work in health insurance? to make life worse for patients?
in pharma, there are still many folks driven by a mission of SERVING PATIENTS (and even the evil execs will stand by that as a talking point)
Which is like six layers of fucked up metaphor right there
We pay into a pool owned by greedy assholes who try their hardest to skim bigger and bigger scoops off the top, which can only happen by denying care.
If only we Payed into a Single pool, with no profit motive.. nahhhhhhhhhhh
Every other part is a complex Rube Goldberg Machine designed to not provide the service you pay them to provide.
There ain’t no me in the company
There ain’t no us in the private trust
There’s hardly humans in humanity”
https://youtu.be/e9LJh81n_zA?si=TidijRT5fbewMiWY