Bad Big Pharma - Good Plant Based Diets

Our Medical Crisis & Its Impact On Seniors

By Don Porter (stage 4 cancer survivor with an organic plant based diet-no chemo or radiation)

The news focus everyday is Japan, Storms in USA, Debt problems everywhere, Mid East upheval, Real Estate problems, cost of oil, inflation, leaving Iraq, & not on our health crisis. Pres. Obama's motivation to win re-election in 2012 will take center stage until fall 2012.
Our economy will be toppled not by oil but medical costs that are moving beyond most Americans ability to pay except for the well off. The reality of sourcing of jobs beyond USA borders as well as moving/growing factories overseas are common place today is in part due to American business looking to reduce Healthcare costs to stay profitable. Job creation is stagnant & jobs lost are being replaced with lower cost service jobs.

The current struggles & recognition of higher costs in Medicare premiums is a sign things will get a lot worse before they get better. Our governmental Medical Institutions such as the NIH, HHW and FDA have all become politicized and have lost sight of their charter. The FDA in particular is Brain Dead due to Big Pharma manipulating their drug oversight by lobbying our Politicians to change the rules to favor industry profits. There is no leadership at the FDA and we have a culture where nearly 50% of FDA folks go on to work for Big Pharma
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In the private sector, our Medical Institutions have also lost sight of their role and have become part of the problem, as well as the Professional Institutions that the physicians belong to. They have all ignored the cost abuses of the medical system with their silence because in many ways they are reaping the rewards of the system. Medical and Business ethics have become secondary to greed & self-interest in most areas.

The most outrageous area is with Big Pharma/lobbyists/politicians. They play a major role in not only the direct cost abuses, but also the resulting harm done to millions of patients that are over medicated and require additional medical treatment and added medical costs to correct the drug induced medical problems.
There are over “many” class action medical suits in progress against Brand Name prescription drugs. Go to www.bigclassaction.com to learn more. The magnitude of this problem is enormous. Politicians are seeking to protect doctors & Big Pharma.

Dr. Marcia Angell, M. D. published a book called "The Truth about the Drug Cos." that documents their "Modus Operandi". Dr. Angell is a Harvard trained Dr. who was the Editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine for 20+ years and observed how the industry was manipulating the medical profession. She has put into context in an easy to understand manner a factual accounting of Big Pharma's role. The book is available at www.amazon.com.

Big Pharma is a Global business with 50% of their profit derived from U. S. operations because only the U. S. does not control prescription prices. They assured themselves that it would not change when they lobbied the Congressman in 2003 to pass the Medicare 2003 bill that does not permit Medicare to negotiate prices. Big Pharma has huge profit margins, created the Oxycontin problem along with others, & pays less income tax than most businesses because of legislated loop holes that they lobbied Congress to pass. Our Medical system is all about Money & not good Healthcare. There are many good well-intentioned medical professionals that are caught in a medical system that needs rebuilding from the ground up, an awesome task in a weakened economy with brainwashed citizens.

We must demand that Congress start an immediate bipartisan effort to fix the system. Maybe the Congressman doesn't care since they have their own cushy retirement program where they avoid the costly medical money problems that most American Seniors are faced with. Work with the growing number of nutritional/diet experts from Drs. Esselstyn, Ornish, Campbell to Bill Clinton. Also be sure to see Forks Over Knives & tell ALL of your family, friends, & co-workers to also see this wonderful & important movie ! Also read & “talk up” The China Study, Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease, Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy, Recalled by Life, & the PH Miracle !

In any event speak up and tell your Congressman you are feed up with this "laissez affaire" method of managing Healthcare in the U.S. The future welfare of our children and grand children are at stake, as well as the quality of life for the current seniors and the baby boomers that are coming of age.