Shlain says insurance companies, overloaded doctors and inflated prices have turned the health-care system into what he calls a “sick care system.” Private Medical, for those who can afford it, aims to be proactive, running frequents tests and diagnostics on patients, constantly updating them with new research and science, and getting detailed information about a patient’s lifestyle, habits, family lives and work lives, Shlain said.

When you have a for-profit healthcare system, it’s only profitable to give good healthcare to the rich, wealthy, powerful. Poor people have the same bodily needs as any human, where proactive diagnostics and treatments are more effective to allow people to live healthy lives than the “ignore everything until it becomes serious” approach. The latter makes drug and insurance companies bank though. Fixing it for the benefit of American residents’ health would harm these companies, and we know who’s more important in the eyes of the American healthcare system.