Chapter 4356: Justice League: Assembly (Part 11)

The Batwing landed on the roof of Wei En Manor. Bruce and Barry walked out of the plane. Alfred stood at the door of the rooftop to welcome them. "Welcome back. This is..."

"My name is Barry Allen." Barry went up and shook hands with Alfred, then said, "Well, I might stay here for a while, giving you trouble..."

Alfred smiled gently at him. Bruce walked down first, and Barry followed him. Obviously, he already knew the news of Martian Manhunter's visit. When he walked to the living room, he shook hands with J'onn, who was drinking coffee.

"I went out for something, didn't I miss anything?"

J'onn just shook his head; he seemed a bit dejected, silently handed a document to Bruce, and then said: "I want to ask you to help me check where these people went."

Bruce looked down at the list, looking at J'onn with some doubt. J'onn said: "To be precise, it is where they worked after graduation. Be detailed. As a price, I can work for you."

Bruce shook his head and said: "I don't need you to work for me. We agreed to fight against the darkness that might come; this is for Earth, and also for yourself."

J'onn still didn't speak. He seemed very absent-minded. Bruce turned to Barry and said: "The room upstairs has been cleaned up for you; don't go out for the past few days. When the storm subsides, we will talk about other things."

Barry nodded. He went to his room upstairs and turned around. The room was very luxurious, but he was really not in the mood to look at it. The recent ups and downs were really too fierce, and he was in a very irritable state, able to wander 30 laps in the living room in one minute.

J'onn was really a bit annoyed by his wandering, but looking at Barry's immature face, he couldn't say anything heavy, so he had to say: "Sit down and rest for a while, sir. Aren't you tired?"

"Sorry, but as long as I stop, I..." Barry wiped his face painfully, and then said, "You don't know what I saw. I am simply..."

Barry fell on the sofa, lay there like a corpse for a few minutes, and then climbed up. He said to the butler Alfred: "Hello, sir, can you give me a computer?"

When a person sees something that completely exceeds his worldview, he will feel very uncomfortable. And when language can no longer describe this thing, instinct will prompt him to share this thing with others, so they can complain together.

Barry decided to share with J'onn what he had seen. He brought the computer sent by Alfred, inserted the hard drive that copied those photos, and handed it to J'onn.

Actually, he didn't finish reading these photos either. With someone to embolden him, the two of them didn't care about the weight and kept turning down. And after Bruce finished checking the information and came out, the two of them lay on the kitchen sink and vomited together. Alfred stood by helplessly.

After the two noodles sat back on the sofa, Bruce sighed and said: "Curiosity killed the cat."

The two lay on the sofa on the left and right, unable to say a word. Actually, they could accept some of the miserable conditions of adults. Some things are seen too much, and the eyes can automatically ignore them; otherwise, there would be no forensic doctors who can work in this world.

However, the most terrible thing is some pictures related to children. Barry might be better; after all, he is still very young, has no family, and no children. But J'onn is married, he has children, and some children are about the same age as his children.

The most terrible thing is that Lois took pictures of the welfare home burned down in a mountain fire in California in a certain year. About twenty children were severely burned. Lois was the first to arrive at the scene, so she took pictures of the victims' faces. When J'onn saw this, he couldn't look at it anymore, wishing he could faint immediately.

Even with the experience of Martian Manhunter who has served as a law enforcement officer in two planets and two civilizations, these things are a bit too advanced.

And Bruce brought worse news. He handed three documents directly to J'onn, which were the three medical students J'onn suspected. And the information showed that one of them had worked in many medical companies after graduation, and in the era when Dr. Erdel died, he was developing new drugs in that secret research institute. The list of developers of that new drug for Marfan syndrome actually had his name on it.

It wasn't until this time that J'onn gave up all fantasies. He took out the pills that Dr. Erdel hadn't finished from his pocket, handed them to Bruce, and then said: "Help me test it. I want to know if this medicine is useful, and what it is useful for."

After Bruce left, the two continued to vomit non-stop until Alfred prepared soothing tea for them. After the two drank the tea, the feeling of nausea finally eased a bit, but they had no strength at all. Barry had no strength in his body, and J'onn had no strength in his spirit.

Both of them fell asleep on the sofa, and Alfred covered them with a blanket. They spent the night like this, and when it was early morning the next day, Bruce woke them up, handed a stack of test reports to J'onn, and then said: "If you didn't tell me this is a drug for Marfan syndrome, just from the test results, I would think this is a long-acting stimulant."

Bruce put his hands together and put them on his lap, and then said: "Simply put, it will improve the heart's blood supply capacity and speed up the blood circulation speed, which can improve human sports ability within a certain period of time. However, for patients with heart disease, this is fatal, because this is very likely to lead to aortic rupture..."

J'onn already had a dead gray face. He really couldn't suppress the emotions in his heart, and even couldn't maintain the human form, directly turning back into a Martian state, which scared Barry.

"How dare they... how dare they..."

J'onn was more sophisticated than Barry; he lost control of his emotions for a moment, but quickly controlled it, and then said: "Is it this medicine that is problematic, or are all the medicines problematic?"

"All the medicines are problematic." Bruce said, "In the United States, the number of patients with Marfan syndrome has exceeded the scope of rare diseases. Most of these people have insurance; you should understand what this means, right?"

J'onn closed his eyes hard. He of course knew, but he didn't want to admit it.

Insurance companies will increase the attractiveness of their insurance by underwriting a relatively rare disease, and can also collect more insurance premiums. And because it is a rare disease, there are not many people suffering from it, even if the treatment cost is relatively high, it is cost-effective for insurance companies.

However, if the number of patients exceeds a certain value, the profit margin will drop significantly. After all, this disease is not easy to cure, even if it is just to bear the surgical expenses, it is not cost-effective for insurance companies.

And for this kind of non-accidental disease-related insurance, as long as you can get the hospital's diagnosis results, it is relatively difficult to avoid compensation. If the other party chooses to take legal channels, the probability of winning is relatively high. That is to say, insurance companies are happy when collecting premiums, but as a result, more and more people get sick, and it is a bit unaffordable to pay.

And insurance companies don't want to continue to lose money, so what to do? The best way is to contact pharmaceutical companies to change drugs.

As long as the medicine is changed to one that is not very effective, many patients can be prevented from reaching the time of surgery. If people die, they don't have to pay, and if this person has accidental death insurance, they can borrow the excuse that he deliberately changed the medicine and cannot provide a sufficient natural death certificate to refuse compensation, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

Some people may think, how can pharmaceutical companies be so kind to spend so much effort to develop new drugs and make wedding dresses for insurance companies? Not to mention that the pharmaceutical and insurance industries are inextricably linked, and the interest exchanges are countless. Just talking about this one thing, pharmaceutical companies can also make a profit from it.

Normally, the research and development of new drugs requires pharmaceutical companies to pay the full amount, but if it involves insurance companies, the other party will also pay part of the money, and the new drugs developed will not become cheaper, but will be more expensive, and the profit margin will be higher.

And because the new drugs are not easy to use, patients will still feel uncomfortable after eating, so what to do? Naturally, it is to buy painkillers, and the pharmaceutical industry earns another sum.

Surely someone will ask again, why do patients abandon cheap and easy-to-use old drugs and use new drugs that are expensive and not easy to use?

Sorry, this time it is the turn of the insurance company to take action. If you don't use new drugs, we won't pay; if you don't take the drugs we specify before surgery, then we refuse to pay, so you pay for it yourself, and you can't win even if you go to court.

So this forms a perfect cycle: insurance companies give money to pharmaceutical companies, let them reduce drug efficacy, and then use insurance to threaten customers to use new drugs; new drug efficacy declines, mortality rises, and insurance companies can pay less.

As long as the money they pay less is higher than the money given to pharmaceutical companies, they are making money. This is why the industry of actuary is so popular in the United States. These things need people to calculate. And under the calculation of a highly professional actuary team, it can be guaranteed that neither the pharmaceutical nor the insurance industry will lose money, so who loses the most goes without saying.

This is also why many Americans boycott vaccines. It sounds like it is very anti-intellectual, but in fact, it is a lesson learned from a mistake. As long as you adjust the ingredients a little, you can eliminate a batch of insurance customers. In this case, who knows what will be injected into you.

And the special medicine in J'onn's hand, the pharmaceutical company started even harder, not reducing the active ingredients, but directly changing it to the drug efficacy ingredients that patients can't accept most, which is simply poisoning.

However, no one knows about this matter, and it didn't cause any waves. How many victims like Dr. Erdel died because of taking new drugs, no one knows. Decades have passed, and history has been completely sealed. If Bruce Wei En were not Batman, even a super-powered individual like Martian Manhunter would not know half the truth.

Looking at J'onn's face, Bruce could also guess something, so he said: "But in fact, the lethal cycle of this kind of medicine will be relatively long. If it is a problem that appeared not long after taking the medicine, then the problem may not just be on this kind of drug." ===== CHAPTER 4357 =====