Chapter 5: 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 benefits are getting bigger and bigger.

And the more economically developed the region, the higher the price of purchasing medical services.

For example, in country M, due to the existence of powerful medical interests, the cost of medical care is said to be so high that 800,000 middle-class families fall back into poverty every year due to an illness.

In country M, which has advanced science and technology and advanced medical technology, it takes 2,000 meters to treat a common influenza.

To give birth to a child, you need to prepare 50,000 meters of knife.

Doing a minor surgery such as cutting the appendix costs more than 8,000 meters.

In terms of medical services, the vast number of vote-owning voters are so democratic and free that the price of country M is so high that it can easily make the middle class fall to the bottom.

Even so, the performance of the medical level of country M is still unconvincing to other countries, because a random outbreak of influenza that swept country M can take tens of thousands of lives of P people.

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

There will definitely be people here to refute: the developed countries in the West provide free medical services for all, and the people of country Z here envy the benefits that they can't envy, how can there be a situation where a small illness costs thousands of meters?

So that must be fake!

Truly.

In developed Western countries, there is indeed free medical care, and every citizen can make an appointment to apply for it.

However, the process from making an appointment to receiving free medical care usually takes more than two weeks, and it is not uncommon to queue for two or three months.

Even if you get in line and get free medical care, as for the treatment effect of free medical care...... It mainly 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 recuperation and exercise, and on the other hand, he depends on the insufficient pockets in his pockets.

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

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

In the footbasin countries, the proportion of medical and health expenditure to GDP is also above 17%.

Country Z spends much less on health care, accounting for about 6% of GDP.

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

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

The importance will get higher and higher.

After all, no one can guarantee that they will always be healthy and will not get sick for a lifetime.

If you want to be healthy forever, you need to pay a certain fee.

In this sense, all medical institutions belong to a kind of for-profit organization, and the products they provide are the "health" that is essential for everyone.

The "Chuangshen Technology" company in Zhou Ming's hand, the products sold to the outside world are also the so-called "health".

It's just that the product quality provided by "Chuangshen Technology" is better and the price is lower, and it can be called the king of cost performance in the same industry, so it has strong competitiveness!

One of the most influential advertisements placed by "Chuangshen Technology" in China is: "Chuangshen Technology, no matter what disease, within 100,000 yuan, we will help you cure it!"

That is to say, no matter what kind of patient he is, no matter what disease he has, within 100,000 yuan, Chuangshen Technology will give you a healthy body.

This advertisement alone has made many peers grit their teeth with hatred and cut off their financial routes.

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

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

But he wasn't happy to fall short of that!

He 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 "life", Zhou Ming only asked: How much money are you willing to pay for a 50-year life extension package?

If the price is 500,000 ...... It is estimated that most people should come up with a way to find a way.

If the price is 1 million...... Probably a small number of people can buy it.

If the price is 5 million...... Only about 5% of people paid for it.

If the price is 50 million...... I am afraid that only a very small number of powerful people can enjoy this service, and it will accelerate the polarization of society, and increase social injustice and unrest.

If it is not launched to the outside world, covered in his own hands, and only for himself and the insiders to enjoy, there is no doubt that in a few hundred years, Zhou Ming and the people around him will develop into a powerful class, and use his longevity advantage to defeat all opponents, and extend the tentacles of his own interests to every corner of the earth.

Ultimately...... Take control of the entire planet.

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

Because of this, hundreds of years later, Zhou Ming has a high probability that he will become the "Lord of the Earth" and dominate the entire earth.

However, Zhou Ming rejected this option.

He still plans to launch life-extending medical services to the outside world, in terms of monetary interests, to meet his own needs, and strive to let 20% of the annual GDP of country Z enter Zhou Ming's pocket in the future (this proportion is not high, in the civilian layer of the copy of "Money Empire", the medical economic industry accounts for 40% of the total social economy).

Why?

Seeing this, someone will surely ask why.

Is Zhou Ming's head broken? A good earth master doesn't do it, but he is short-sighted, only staring at the scrap paper in front of him, is he drilling into the eyes of money? Money is in his eyes, why is it so important?

Of course not!

If Zhou Ming was simply pursuing to make money, no matter how big the number was, he would be able to get it quickly...... He was not short of money at all.

Money is just a bunch of numbers of little use to him!

Then why is he so stupid, why did he publish the life-extending medical technology, which can cause a global sensation, attract the hostility of countless forces, and bring countless troubles?

What exactly is he for?

In fact, Zhou Ming didn't do anything on purpose.

He just thinks that the technology of life extension medical treatment is like a double-edged sword, and since it has been created, it is better to announce it as soon as possible than to hold it in his hands for a long time...... That would be less harmful.

"With the explosive development of science and technology in country Z, at most 2,300 years, life extension medical technology will be broken through by other medical institutions sooner or later, and I just won the opportunity for two or three hundred years. ”

"Two or three hundred years, is it enough for me to carry out a series of operations, suppress all opposition, and become the master of the earth?"

"Unlikely, no one wants to have a master standing above them, no one wants to let their fate be 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. ”

"But if there is a so-called 'elite group' around me, the trouble it will bring me will definitely be greater than the help it will bring me!"

"Tahara Hiroshi suggested not to publish the life-extending medical technology, on the one hand, to avoid causing trouble to the company, on the other hand, there is no selfishness for them, as researchers who study life-extending technology, they can naturally enjoy life-extending services, and then, they became the first batch of 'mortals', the first batch of gods. ”

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

In the end, I don't know if the impact they have had on the planet will be positive or negative.

In short, Zhou Ming, who has long understood the extreme of human nature, has come to the conclusion that he is generally biased towards negative pessimism, and that such a special elite group born from his side is very likely to get out of his control in the end, and driven by individual careerists, he is even regarded as an obstacle and wants to get rid of it quickly.

After all, Zhou Ming really didn't want to be the "master of the earth"...... This has disappointed many people's expectations, and even disappointed and despaired.

The resulting destructive force will definitely act on Zhou Ming.

Therefore, the practice of avoiding internal contradictions is to announce the technical achievements of life extension medical treatment to the outside world as soon as possible, and cut off some non-divisive thoughts of the people around them as soon as possible.

It's just that as soon as this explosive news was released, the global repercussions and sensations, as well as the response actions taken by various forces, could he really deal with it?