It's time to seriously question the myth that "we have the best health
care system in the world" here in the United States. In reality, we have
the worst health care system of any industrialized country: no other
country kills as many people with prescription drugs, radical surgical
procedures, chemotherapy and other treatments while spending the
equivalent of 15 percent of the entire national economy on it. It's time
to face the facts: our health care system is a system designed to
generate profits, not to make people healthy. It's bad medicine,
inside and out. In fact, much of the system is geared towards
keeping people sick -- because that's what generates repeat business.
DIsease prevention efforts are stonewalled at the FDA, good nutrition is
almost never taught at medical schools, and drug companies continue to
dominate the direction of so-called "modern" medicine. Why? Because
drugs generate profits. Organized medicine is the largest con ever
perpetrated on the American people (right up there with the war on
Iraq). Drug companies invent fictitious diseases like ADHD and fear of
public speaking, dishonest medical researchers are hired to manipulate
drug study results, the FDA approves the drugs based on the fraudulent
results, then drug companies legally bribe doctors into prescribing the
drugs to patients. Once a drug is firmly established in the medical
system, more research is fraudulently conducted to convince people that
they need the drugs "for life." Take the recent research on statins, for
example: the drugs are almost completely worthless for preventing heart
attacks, showing a very tiny effect that is dwarfed by a mere 10 minutes
a day of physical exercise, and yet the drug industry demands that tens
of millions of people start taking statins every day for the rest of
their lives! What a brilliant con! Amazingly, doctors are going along
with the con, too. Yet in the case of statins and other drugs,
nobody talks about the side effects: like the fact that statins destroy
your body's ability to generate sex hormones, causing men to lose their
sex drive. There's also the fact that most drugs are nothing more than
grand experiments where the public is being used as guinea pigs. The
true impact of these drugs will only be known years later, and even
then, you can bet that the FDA will drag its feet pulling dangerous
drugs off the market, making sure the drug generates the maximum profit
possible, regardless of how many people are harmed. See, we don't
really have a health care system in the United States: we have
a system of corporate greed that parades as medicine. It's
really a system of exploiting the public for power and profits,
and the primary players are drug companies, medical schools, medical
journals (which have drifted so far from credibility that their
"scientific" publications can only be called laughable), and of course
the FDA. It's a system of extreme corruption, where greed -- not health
-- remains the primary driving force. Now, if you want to create the
best health care system in the world, here's what you do: 1) ban all
direct-to-consumer drug advertising. 2) Arrest and prosecute FDA
officials for their crimes against the public, clean house at the
agency, and install a new Dept. of Internal Affairs at the FDA. 3) Ban
drug companies from influencing medical schools in any way. 4) Ban drug
companies from bribing doctors with free trips to Hawaii, free dinners,
and other obvious bribes. 5) Ban medical journals from accepting
advertising from drug companies. 6) Make disease prevention, nutrition
and physical fitness the top priorities at all medical schools. 7)
Invest taxpayer dollars in large-scale public service announcement
campaigns to teach people how to be healthy in terms of nutrition and
physical exercise. 8) Ban all metabolic disruptors from the food supply
(ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils). 9)
Use taxpayer dollars to make all fitness center memberships free of
charge to all citizens (give a $40 / month credit to every adult,
allowing them to shop around and choose whatever fitness center they
want). 10) End the ridiculous taxpayer subsidies on corn and sugar.
Foods that cause disease should not be made cheaper for consumers, they
should be made more expensive. There are probably a hundred other
suggestions that would improve the situation, but these 10 represent a
good, solid start. If we want to be healthy, we've got to make major
policy changes and start putting health, not drug company profits, as
our top priority.
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