What happens when the Bush Administration negotiates drug prices with private industry using public money? To answer the question, just consider the situation with U.S. government "negotiations" over the prices of prescription drugs for Medicare: The Bush Administration not only agreed to pay monopoly prices for medications, it also made it illegal for the government to negotiate any discounts with pharmaceutical companies!
The result? A multi-trillion dollar taxpayer funded subsidy to the richest corporations in the world: Drug companies.
Click here to view the CounterThink cartoon on this topic.) But it's not just the
Bush Administration to blame here: no presidential candidate seems to be free from
Big Pharma control other than Rep. Ron Paul, who is a strong advocate of genuine
health freedom. Even the Democratic candidates are pushing tyrannical agendas. Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, for example, has now publicly called for
health care reform that would force all Americans to visit conventional medical
doctors on a regular basis, then submit to chemotherapy
drugs if any signs of cancer (
breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc.) were detected. It's a police state
medicine proposal, and it came out of the mouth of a Democrat.
When it comes to health care,
drug prices and politics,
both side of the aisle have been bought off by Big Pharma. I cringe to consider what might happen with
health care if Hilary Clinton were to become president. Although I'd love to see a woman in the White House, I'm not sure I'd want a health care dictator in cahoots with Big Pharma calling the shots on national health care
reform.
No serious health care reform proposals
The truth is that
no politician other than Rep. Ron Paul has any real plan for health care reform. No one is talking about getting people OFF
prescription drugs and onto disease
prevention diets, healthful lifestyles and low-cost nutritional supplementation. The answers to preventing 90 percent of all cancers in this country are right in front of us, yet no one is talking about using a
cancer prevention diet (plus sunlight and
exercise) to stop this epidemic of preventable
disease.
No one is talking seriously about banning soda ads and junk food ads to
children, and Big Pharma has bought off
lawmakers so completely that there's also no serious discussion of ways to end the madness of direct-to-consumer
drug advertising (a dubious practice that isn't even allowed in most other countries).
Rather than protecting the people,
politicians are now in bed with the powerful corporations selling foods, drugs and personal care products that actually harm people. There is no real defender of the people who remains in
power in Washington. The entire power base has shifted to those sellout bureaucrats who seem to be willing to sacrifice the future health of this nation in order to solidify their own personal reelection campaigns with the help of corporate donations (bribes).
The system is broken. A nation that was once designed so that lawmakers would represent the interests of the common people has now devolved into a system that only serves the interests of the corporations. The people are now considered proxy voters to be brainwashed and manipulated into voting for whichever candidate is going to concentrate the most power into the hands of the few. As a result of all this, the future of this nation is in real jeopardy.
An intoxicated nation
We have become a nation of drug addicts -- and I don't mean
illegal drugs. From the high-fructose corn syrup and caffeine in the
food supply to all the prescription drugs people now believe they need because they saw them on TV, synthetic substances now dominate American medicine (and American tragedy). An estimated 30 percent of all traffic accidents are now caused by people on medication, and yet the
drug companies are pushing even more drugs for yet more fictitious diseases -- because, you know, there's always a way to add yet one more pill to the daily chemical intake, right?
Over the last ten years alone, there has been
a forty-fold increase in the number of children being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That's a 4000% rise in the number of children with this so-called "disease." Gee, why isn't the CDC involved? Any increase that large should be due to an infectious disease pandemic -- if it were real, that is. But there is no pandemic, no outbreak, and no real cause for alarm. The 4000% increase is due entirely to clever marketing,
disease mongering and the takeover of psychiatric medicine by Big Pharma.
Modern medicine is the cause of disease
It increasingly seems like the only real disease in this country is
the sickness of believing in pharmaceutical medicine. It's a kind of madness, actually: Thinking that a synthetic chemical can solve all your problems and put your
life in perfect order like those actors shown in pharmaceutical
television ads. I believe it will one day be viewed as a kind of cultural mass psychosis. When it comes to health,
our modern world has lost its mind, and the so-called
science backing it up has lost all touch with scientific reality. Modern medicine is a hoax. Science has been abandoned for
marketing. Safety has been thrown out the window and replaced with profit potential. Ethics have surrendered to greed, and we have now become a nation of mind-numbed druggies who seem increasingly incapable of questioning the news, voting intelligently, or understanding anything that's really going on in the world (such as the coming collapse of the real estate bubble and the inevitable hyperinflation of the U.S. dollar).
Here are the seven facts you need to remember about everything you're seeing today in
modern medicine:
Fact #1: 90 percent of all diseases (cancer, diabetes, depression, heart disease, etc.) are easily preventable through diet,
nutrition, sunlight and exercise. None of these solutions are ever promoted because they make no
money.
Fact #2: Nearly all the consumption of
pharmaceuticals today is a direct result of marketing to the public and covertly bribing physicians to write more prescriptions. There is very little drug
consumption based on scientific merit.
Fact #3: No pharmaceuticals actually
cure or resolve the underlying causes of disease. Even "successful" drugs only manage symptoms, usually at the cost of interfering with other physiological functions that will cause side effects down the road. There is no such thing as a drug without a side effect.
Fact #4: There is no financial incentive for anyone in today's system of medicine (drug
companies, hospitals, doctors, etc.) to actually make patients well. Profits are found in continued sickness, not wellness or prevention.
Fact #5: Virtually all the "prevention" programs you see today (such as free mammograms or other
screening programs) are little more than cleverly disguised
patient recruitment schemes. They use free screenings to scare people into agreeing to expensive and often unnecessary treatments that enrich drug companies. Breast cancer mammography is a complete scam: The machines actually cause cancer!
Fact #6: Doctors know virtually nothing about nutrition and are still not taught nutrition in medical schools. Expecting a
doctor to teach you about how to prevent disease is sort of like expecting a
car mechanic to show you how to perform
brain surgery. Although there are some exceptions (doctors who have taught themselves nutrition), most doctors remain so nutritionally illiterate that they have no familiarity with the
natural plant-based medicines found in everyday fruits and vegetables.
Fact #7: Nobody has any interest in your health except you. No
corporation, no doctor, and no
government has any desire to actually make you well. Keeping you sick makes it easier for them to control and financially exploit you.
Healthy, aware individuals are perceived as a threat to the tyrannical institutions now running this country, and they've figured out that the best way to keep a nation controlled and subdued is to drug 'em all and keep the people in a constant state of brain fog from
medications and fluoride. The only
healthy, aware, critically
thinking individuals I know are all
100% free of pharmaceuticals and
processed foods (and watch no television, either).
Remember those seven facts and you'll know more about health and disease than most people. And for your part, stay healthy! Work to safely get off all prescription drugs, eat a
diet of natural, wholesome
foods (and avoid processed foods), exercise regularly, avoid
toxic chemicals in your home (throw out those toxic laundry detergents and switch to
soap nuts), and toss those toxic
personal care products (skin creams, cosmetics, shampoo, etc.). Stay natural, healthy and alert. Be well, and you'll be the exception! And please, never be so gullible as to think that your government is going to "save you" with a new health care reform plan. Even if we switch to free health insurance for everyone, the whole system is still based on toxic treatments that cure nothing!
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In mid 2010, Adams produced NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He also launched an online retailer of environmentally-friendly products (BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also the CEO of a highly successful email newsletter software company that develops software used to send permission email campaigns to subscribers. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, martial arts and organic gardening. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
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