Curing patients is not a sustainable business model – Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model? CNBC
“Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies, especially those involved in the pioneering "gene therapy" treatment: cures could be bad for business in the long run.”
“Richter cited Gilead Sciences' treatments for hepatitis C, which achieved cure rates of more than 90 percent. The company's U.S. sales for these hepatitis C treatments peaked at $12.5 billion in 2015, but have been falling ever since. Goldman estimates the U.S. sales for these treatments will be less than $4 billion this year, according to a table in the report.”
"GILD is a case in point, where the success of its hepatitis C franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients," the analyst wrote. "In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”
A customer cured is a customer lost
Similar to Biotech, Vitamin D is not a sustainable business model for most doctors and hospitals
Back in 2013 a medical clinic went out of business after their patients finally got >80 ng of vitamin D
The patients had become so healthy that their clinic visits dropped from 4 per year down to 1 per year
That "problem" was mentioned in the 5 Minute Vitamin D video made by VitaminDWiki
10 reasons 21 reasons why doctors are reluctant to accept Vitamin D -#10 contains the quote
- "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it”
- Upton Sinclair
I am unaware of any organization which will take an action which will result in less business, income, or profit
- Henry Lahore, founder of VitaminDWiki
However, Health Maintenance Organizations and Employers can benefit from Vitamin D
Cost savings with Vitamin D category listing has items along with related searches
HMOs will save millions of dollars with vitamin D HMO = Health Maintenance Organization
With Vitamin D, HMOs will get the same income but will have significantly less outgo
Additional HMO benefit - having healthier clients will bring in new clients (word of mouth, marketing)
How employers can save a million dollars per 1,000 pregnancies
Employer alliance is trying to reduce the cost of health care – Aug 2017
Hospitals would have less income as a result of vitamin D
Hospital costs higher for those with low vitamin D (7,000 Germans in their 50's) – Nov 2017
Chance of dying in hospital cut in half by just 10 ng higher level of Vitamin D – April 2016
Vitamin D once during pregnancy reduced infant health care costs (300 times ROI) – RCT Dec 2015
Cost savings with Vitamin D includes the following
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