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28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers; Republicans oppose free trade for medicine Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Republicans voted against the Dorgan amendment, voting to enforce the pharmaceutical monopoly and keep Big Pharma in control of virtually the entire U.S. medication market. There were no Democrats that voted against the amendment. But why would 28 Republican Senators vote against breaking a marketplace monopoly and encouraging the use of free market economics to save American consumers billions of dollars? The answer isn't complicated: Because nearly all of them have taken money from pharmaceutical companies!

FDA Revitalization Act renamed, amended and still hotly debated; floor vote is imminent Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Of special interest is the development of a new amendment that would end the U.S. pharmaceutical monopoly and allow Americans to purchase prescription drugs from other countries. This single amendment, which would bring free trade to medications and save American citizens, corporations, cities and states billions of dollars in reduced pricing for prescription drugs, has Big Pharma and their legislative lapdogs circling the wagons, hoping to pass this bill quickly before any other "bright ideas" threaten Big Pharma's stanglehold on organized medicine.

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It is especially interesting that the FTC, which claims to protect consumers, has made absolutely no effort whatsoever to end the pharmaceutical monopoly in the United States. If anything, the FTC seems a lot more interested in eliminating competition to pharmaceutical companies by threatening sellers of nutritional products or alternative medicine products.

Democrats win, Big Pharma loses (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This scheme is also known as the Medicare discount drug plan, and it established a pharmaceutical monopoly whereby the federal government was not allowed to negotiate volume price discounts with drug companies. The result? A massive government handout to the wealthiest corporations in the nation: Drug companies. Nancy Pelosi has promised to pass a bill ending this price fixing scheme within her first 100 hours as Speaker. But that doesn't mean the bill will become law, of course. Bush retains veto power, and he won't be afraid to use it to protect Big Business.

NewsTarget survey results, part 3: Making health changes that positively affect work performance Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Part of that is the fact that we still have a pharmaceutical monopoly in this country, so everyone who buys prescription drugs in the U.S. is getting ripped off with 30,000 percent markups, but another part of it is because a lot of employees simply don't take care of their own health, so their corporations pay higher healthcare costs. Both of these can be alleviated as employees are given more access to information about health. How much of an impact can it have? Well, in our survey, 27.

The collapse of health and the downfall of the U.S. economy (preview) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It basically comes down to four factors: The FDA-enforced pharmaceutical monopoly that keeps U.S. drug prices the highest in the world while discrediting or outlawing prescription drugs from other countries. The continued suppression of natural medicine, nutrition, and other forms of alternative care that actually helps patients heal rather than simply masking symptoms. The harmful nature of most prescription drugs: They cause massive nutritional deficiencies and create secondary symptoms or diseases which are almost always treated with more high-cost prescription drugs.

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The first determined effort in the modern Western world to break this pharmaceutical monopoly came from America in the 18th century. Samuel Thomson, the son of a farmer, lived during a time of great yellow fever epidemics; the accepted medical practice in curing this (and almost any other) ailment was a liberal use of bleeding and mercury, which a healthy patient would be lucky to live through. Thomson instead used herbs and steaming—with great success—but was met with hostility from the orthodox medical establishment, and even imprisoned briefly. 180 Get Healthy Now!

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