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(NaturalNews) This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger reporting for www.NaturalNews.com . This article is a transcript of the audio from Health Ranger Report #11, available here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Po...
Today, I'm bringing you some rather disturbing news about the Supreme Court's decision that essentially turned over the future of your health to corporations. Here's what happened. It's a case called Reigel vs. Medtronic.
Now Medtronic is a manufacturer of medical devices. They make the angioplasty balloons among other things, and in this case Reigel died following a surgical procedure in which one of these angioplasty balloons exploded when it was in his artery.
This medical device killed him; what a stupid situation this is. Now the FDA said that this device was approved, and then the Supreme Court ruled that because the FDA said this device was approved, the family of Reigel (again who died) could not sue the device manufacturer. Do you follow this?
Your health has just been turned over to corporations and to a highly corrupt FDA. The Supreme Court has said in an 8:1 decision no less that you cannot sue a device manufacturer for any kind of harm caused by that medical device if the FDA put its stamp of approval on it.
Blanket immunity puts profit above public safetyNow that is astounding. It means that there is now blanket immunity for these corporations. They can never be held responsible any more for producing harmful devices that actually kill people. This will not stop with medical devices by the way. This is going to go on to pharmaceuticals. That is what's next. That's what the drug companies really want.
In fact, they tried to have laws passed on this before. They tried to say that if the FDA approves a drug, it can therefore never possibly harm anyone. It cannot be harmful, and the drug companies should be immune to lawsuits from the families of people who died after taking the drugs. That is what the drug companies have said.
Now the Supreme Court has given support to that argument on the medical device side. Once again, the Supreme Court has ruled in an 8:1 decision in Reigel vs. Medtronic. Any medical device that is FDA approved at a certain level, which means it has a certain classification of approval by the FDA, cannot possibly harm anyone, and no one can possibly sue the device manufacturer -- blanket immunity.
It would be like granting immunity to Ford for making defective vehicles. Let's say they made a batch of defective trucks that killed people. What if the Supreme Court came in and ruled that since some government regulatory body approved the truck as safe, consumers could not sue Ford for defective materials, defective workmanship, poor design choices or cost cutting that compromised safety in order to create more profits?
I just use Ford as an example. I do not mean to imply that Ford is involved in such a lawsuit, but car companies have historically been involved in these kinds of lawsuits because in many cases in the past -- such as the Ford Pinto -- these companies really did cut corners, and they made terrible design choices that, in fact, made their vehicles more dangerous. It is a basic premise of common law that a consumer can sue the manufacturer of a product if that product is defective and if it then harms the consumer.
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