A needle of 14 million is comparable to a suite in Beijing? Imported high-priced medicines are hotly debated, when will technology become commonplace?

The 165,000 Hermès bicycles in Shanghai were looted as soon as they went online; the O2 ARK, a 560,000 hyperbaric oxygen chamber comparable to a suite in the county seat, was so popular that it needed to be booked 6 months in advance...

The rich seem to be indifferent to the use value that ordinary people care about most, and are more willing to spend a lot of money on sky-high commodities that can show "face" and "status".

In the field of life and medical care, which is related to everyone, the rich have more "priority to survive" than ordinary people because of their incomparable wealth advantages. From 1.2 million anti-cancer injections to 14 million imported rare disease drugs, because of the insurmountable price, these technologies that represent "survival priority" seem to be reduced to "the rich man's game"

Pictured: Hermès priced at 165,000 sky-high bicycles

1. 14 million needles, an unbearable injury for the poor

A German study of 70,000 people tracked for 30 years found that the lifespan gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Even in the same town in the Ruhr area, the average life expectancy of residents in the rich area is 14 years higher than that in the poor area.

Coincidentally, a study in the American Journal of Medicine also pointed out that the life expectancy gap between the top 10% and the bottom 10% of the male population in the United States is 31 years old. The gap in the life expectancy gap between the rich and the poor is "shivering".

In addition to the disparity caused by different living habits and diet quality, the study also believes that the fundamental reason is the development of modern biomedicine, which has brought about an extension of life expectancy. And its high price is destined to be owned only by the rich who dominate the wealth.

Take the special drug for the rare disease Zolgensma (spinal atrophy) as an example. Although it can be cured with one injection, the price is as high as 14 million. Most families are still unable to bear the cost of the imported aging-delaying substance "Paiweiluo pro" molecule, which is also dubbed the "lifetime recharge card" exclusive to the head crowd because of the sky-high price of 1.5 million.

This trend continues to spread, science fiction writer Yuval Harari said in "A Brief History of the Future" that "the development of technology makes life and death no longer a completely fair thing" , it seems to be becoming a reality.

2. With the development of the system, the thickness of the wallet is no longer the length of life

Fortunately, human society is not static, and changes come quietly. With the advancement of modern technology and the development of social systems, the technology monopolized by the rich in the past has been gradually broken.

Taking cardiac stents as an example, from 30,000 to 40,000 yuan for the previous stent, 3 guarantees per operation, plus the follow-up costs, the cost of the entire treatment is no less than 100,000 yuan. Nowadays, cardiac stents are included in "centralized procurement with volume", and after reimbursement of medical insurance less than 2,000, the cost has dropped by more than 80%.

The 14 million Zolgensma imported high-priced drug also has an alternative drug Nosinagen Sodium Injection, although the cost is still as high as 700,000, but after the National Medical Insurance Bureau haggling, the cost after being included in the medical insurance is only 30,000, a direct drop of more than 95%.

The anti-aging substance "Paiweiluo pro", which was once monopolized by the rich, has also been reduced by 99% from 1.5 million, ushering in the era of civilianization.

The data shows that the substance originated from the Harvard laboratory in 2013, and a paper published in the journal "cell" shows that by activating mitochondria, activating dysfunctional cells, thereby delaying the aging process of mammals or humans. In 2015, experiments carried out by the University of Washington and Yale University showed that the skin, bone density, muscle and other physiological aging indicators of the middle-aged and elderly people who received the intervention were reversed, equivalent to 28% younger.

At that time, Sigma-Aldrich, the world's largest reagent network, priced the substance as high as 22,614 yuan/g, and the price of the finished product reached 1.5 million yuan.

In 2015, Japanese scientists reduced the cost to 20,000 through technological upgrades and expanded the audience to the first-line rich;

In 2018, Chinese scientists broke the shackles of production and reduced costs by 99%, further reaching the general population. Nowadays, ordinary people can also obtain "Paiweiluo pro" molecules through JD Health, and the price is less than 2,000, which has stopped the "rich game". Technology is bringing forth new innovations, the welfare system is constantly improving, and the wave of popularization of science and technology is rolling in.

3. But there is no disease in the world, so why not dust the medicine on the shelf

"If the invention of new technologies only serves the elite and cannot benefit the common people, then no matter how advanced it is, it will be meaningless." Yin Ye, President of BGI, brought tears to the eyes of many ordinary people who were plagued by "poor diseases". .

Technology is constantly innovating and developing in a good direction. Expensive technology that was unimaginable by ordinary people in the past is entering life. Whether the number of cardiac stents has dropped from 30,000 to 2,000, or the “Pavilo pro” has dropped from 1.5 million to less than 2,000, and antibiotics have gone from being comparable to gold to flooding everywhere, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is rapidly coming into contact with the lives of ordinary people.

"But there is no disease in the human world, so why not put the medicine on the shelf?", "I am not the god of medicine" has expressed the voice of many people. Don't let price become a deep ditch that is harder to overcome than technology. We are thinking about this day.