💲SICKCARE — Part II: The Invisible Subscription (How Chronic Illness Became a Business Model)
Subscriptions are supposed to be optional. But in modern healthcare, chronic illness often functions like one—quietly recurring, difficult to cancel, and financially stabilizing for the system that manages it. This reflection explores how care pathways, incentives, and expectations can transform long-term illness into a business model—and what that means for agency, healing, and trust.
Subscriptions are supposed to be optional. But in modern healthcare, chronic illness often functions like one—quietly recurring, difficult to cancel, and financially stabilizing for the system that manages it. This reflection explores how care pathways, incentives, and expectations can transform long-term illness into a business model—and what that means for agency, healing, and trust.