How The Government, Big Pharma, And Doctors Cause Injury For Profit
November 4, 2009 by supermario
Filed under US News
Byron J. Richards
NewsWithViews.com
In some ways the health care in America is the finest in the world. In other ways it is a severe risk to health, even deadly. The dark side of this issue involves medication profits at the expense of human health. This questionable health care approach costs at least 200 billion dollars a year and involves the costs of the drugs themselves, the injuries they cause, and the appropriate law suits that follow. The perpetrators of this fraud are the pharmaceutical companies acting in tandem with the FDA, doctors paid under the table by Big Pharma, and gullible doctors willing to write off-label prescriptions based on the hype they hear from doctors on the take and Big Pharma sales reps.
Creating a market demand for this fraud is a health care system that blindly pays for it. This issue is causing millions of injuries a year and tens of thousands of deaths. It makes the Ponzi scheme run by Bernie Madoff pale in comparison. It is ruining the legitimate health care needs of a nation. Any expansion of mandatory health care funding will only make it worse, since the current scheme is set to feed off patients who don’t pay full price (or often any price) for the medications they “need.”
The scandals involving inappropriate use of medications are so numerous they defy believability, with FDA management either tacitly allowing or actively helping the various drug companies. The FDA has a long history of pretense dating back to its inception over 100 years ago. It is part of the DNA of the FDA’s dysfunctional culture. FDA managers act in a revolving door capacity with the various industries they are supposed to be regulating. What FDA mangers actually do is more akin to the activities of a police-force bully. They seek to knock out competition for their friends in Big Pharma, Big Biotech, and Big Food, while acting as the gatekeepers of profits for the chosen few – often in disregard of the health consequences.
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