Urban Sims

Chapter 753 Medical Empire
The medical industry has been a profiteering industry since ancient times.

Especially after entering the modern society, the importance of the medical industry is getting higher and higher, and the associated interests are getting bigger and bigger.

And the more developed the economic level, the higher the price of purchasing medical services.

For example, in country M, due to the existence of powerful medical interest groups, it is said that its medical expenses are so high that every year 80 middle-class families return to poverty due to a disease.

In country M with advanced technology and advanced medical technology, it costs 2000 meters to treat a common influenza.

To give birth to a child, you need to prepare a knife of 5 meters.

For a minor operation such as cutting the appendix, the cost is more than 8000 meters.

Country M, which has always flaunted freedom and democracy, is actually so democratic and free in terms of medical services for the majority of P citizens who have votes. The prices are so high that the middle class can easily fall to the bottom.

Even so, the performance of country M's medical level is still not convincing to other countries, because any random outbreak of influenza that sweeps across country M can kill tens of thousands of P people.

As for some old developed countries in Europe, the problem is not as serious as country M, but there is also the problem of high costs.

There will definitely be some people who will refute here: Western developed countries provide free medical services for all. This is a welfare that the P people in country Z can’t even envy. How can a minor illness cost thousands of dollars? status?
So that must be fake!

indeed.

In western developed countries, there are indeed free medical services, and every citizen can make an appointment to apply.

However, the process from making an appointment to applying for free medical services usually takes more than two weeks, and queuing for two or three months is also very common.

Even if you get in the queue and get free medical services, as for the effect of free medical treatment... It depends on your personal luck.

Therefore, in western developed countries, if a person wants to live a long and healthy life, on the one hand, he must rely on reasonable maintenance and exercise; on the other hand, it depends on whether there is enough money in his pocket.

In addition, according to statistics, the more developed a country's economy and the wealthier its citizens, the higher the proportion of the medical industry in the national economy will be.

For example, in country M, medical and health expenditure accounts for about 20% of the national economy.

In footbath countries, the proportion of medical and health expenditures in GDP is also more than 17%.

The proportion of expenditure in the medical and health field in country Z is much smaller, accounting for about 6% of GDP.

The average medical expenditure level in the world is about 10%.

It can be seen that in the near future, the medical and health industry will become as important as the pillar industries such as catering, daily consumption, and real estate, and will play an extremely important role in the national economy.

will become more and more important.

After all, no one can guarantee to be healthy forever and not to get sick for a lifetime.

If you want to guarantee eternal health, you need to pay a certain fee.

In this sense, all medical institutions are profit-making institutions, and the products they provide are exactly the "health" that is essential for everyone.

Zhou Ming's "Chuangshen Technology" company sells products that are called "health".

It's just that the products provided by "Chuangshen Technology" have better quality and lower prices, and they are the king of cost performance in the same industry, so they are extremely competitive!
And "Chuangshen Technology" launched the most influential advertisement in China: "Chuangshen Technology, no matter what disease, within 10 yuan, we will help you cure it!"

In other words, no matter who the patient is, no matter what disease he has, within 10 yuan, Chuangshen Technology will return you a healthy body.

This advertisement alone has made countless colleagues gnash their teeth in hatred and cut off their source of income.

In this way, within the scope of country Z alone, the medical and health market of more than 5 trillion yuan has been bitten down by Chuangshen Technology!

The profit of more than one trillion yuan per year has entered Zhou Ming's pocket.

But he is not satisfied with this!
He still has bigger plans and ambitions!
The Chuangshen Technology in his hand not only wants to sell cost-effective "health", but also wants to sell high-profit "life"!
As for the profit margin of selling "lifespan", Zhou Ming only asked one question: How much are you willing to pay for a 50-year life extension package?
If the price is 50...it is estimated that most people should think of a way to get it out.

If the price is 100 million... maybe a small number of people can afford it.

If the price is 500 million... probably only 5% of the people can afford the money.

If the price is 5000 million... I am afraid that only a very small number of dignitaries can enjoy this service, and it will accelerate social polarization and increase social injustice and turmoil.

If it is not released to the outside world, and it is kept in its own hands, only for the enjoyment of itself and internal personnel, there is no doubt that in a few hundred years, Zhou Ming himself and the people around him will develop into a powerful class, and use their own longevity advantage to defeat them. All opponents extend the tentacles of their own interests to every corner of the earth.

Ultimately... control of the entire planet.

Therefore, from the perspective of personal interests, out of the consideration of maximizing benefits, it is obviously the best choice to hold the life extension technology in your own hands, not to disclose it to the public, and only let yourself and a few people around you enjoy it.

Because of this, Zhou Ming is very likely to become the "lord of the earth" and dominate the entire earth in a few hundred years.

However, Zhou Ming rejected this option.

He still intends to launch life-prolonging medical services to meet his own needs in terms of monetary benefits, and strive to allow 20% of country Z's annual gross national product to enter Zhou Ming's pockets in the future (this ratio is not high, in the copy " Among the common people in Money Empire, the medical economy industry accounts for 40% of the total social economy).

why?
Seeing this, someone will definitely ask why.

Is Zhou Ming's head broken?A good master of the earth doesn't do it, but he is short-sighted and only stares at the piece of waste paper in front of him. Did he get into the eyes of money?Why is money so important to him?

Of course not!

If Zhou Ming is simply pursuing making money, no matter how big the number is, he can get it quickly...he is not short of money at all.

To him, money is just a bunch of numbers of little use!

Then why is he so stupid, life-prolonging medical technology, this kind of technology that can cause a global sensation, attract envy and hostility from countless forces, and cause countless troubles, why does he have to publish it puzzlingly?
What is he for?
In fact, Zhou Ming didn't do it on purpose.

He just thinks that the technology of prolonging life is like a double-edged sword. Now that it has been built, it is better to announce it as soon as possible, rather than holding it in his own hands for a long time...then the harm will be less.

"With the explosive development of country Z's technology, it will take 2 years at most. The life-prolonging medical technology will be broken by other medical institutions sooner or later. I just won the opportunity of 300 years."

"Is these two 300 years enough for me to carry out a series of operations, suppress all opposition, and become the master of the earth?"

"It's unlikely. No one wants to have a master standing on their head, and no one wants to control their own destiny in the hands of others."

"What's more, I'm not interested in becoming the so-called master of the earth at all!"

"I don't have that much time to take care of the earth."

"On the contrary, if there is a so-called 'power group' around me, the trouble it will bring me is definitely greater than the help it will bring me!"

"Hiroshi Tahara and the others suggested not to announce the life-extending medical technology. On the one hand, it is to avoid causing trouble for the company; on the other hand, it is not because of their selfishness. As researchers who study life-extending technology, they will naturally enjoy life-extending services. Then, They became the first batch of 'escapers', the first batch of gods."

"When their life expectancy far exceeds that of ordinary people, their mentality will naturally be different from ordinary people."

In the end, I don't know whether their impact on this earth will be positive or negative.

In short, Zhou Ming, who had already understood the extreme of human nature, came to a conclusion that is generally negative and pessimistic. Such a special powerful group born around him is very likely to break away from his control in the end, driven by individual careerists. He even regarded him as an obstacle, and wanted to get rid of it quickly.

After all, Zhou Ming really doesn't want to be a "master of the earth"... This has failed many people's expectations, and even made them disappointed and hopeless.

The resulting destructive force will definitely act on Zhou Ming.

Therefore, the way to avoid internal conflicts is to announce the technological progress of life-prolonging medical treatment to the outside world as soon as possible, and to cut off some unreasonable thoughts of people around you as soon as possible.

It's just that once this explosive news was released, the worldwide response and sensation, as well as the countermeasures taken by various forces, can he really deal with it?
(End of this chapter)