Health Care In America

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Tue, 01/04/2011 - 4:04pm | Penteller

Virtually all pharmaceuticals are synthetic configurations designed to be patentable and therefore proprietary, allowing for predetermined periods of profitability.

Nearly all of these synthetic configurations are designed to “manage” your ailment and rarely ever “cure”, creating life long revenue streams for their owners.

They are synthetic chemicals that do not break down and flow on through your body, contaminating our rivers and lakes for decades and centuries to come, contamination now so great that the USGS monitors many of our water supplies for these toxins.

The gross profiteering by the drug industry makes its way into our political system as the pharmaceutical industry is consistently one of the largest campaign contributors, industrialized corporate machines, manipulating our political system to their advantage by crafting legislation that benefits their bottom line the most.

These are drugs that once taken, begin to affect other areas of the body causing increased body contamination, resulting in other health problems. These new ailments require doctors to prescribe more damaging drugs based on Pharmaceutical Protocols, which begins a downward spiral through ever increasing prescriptions, until the body is overwhelmed and ultimately fails.

Today’s International Pharmaceutical Corporations are a corrupt and manipulative industry that has now spawned a demon child in the form of a health care bill. Legislation that is not designed to benefit American health, but is destine to provide continued profiteering by the Medical Industrial Complex, which today has little to do with ultraistic ideals and everything to do with gross profiteering.

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Penteller wrote on January 17, 2011 at 6:01 pm

Good question, the difference

Good question, the difference is… If you set up agencies with labs and scientists it is a government program, if you fund through multiple sources the research done by existing universities, private contractors, etc, it’s publicly funded. Which to me is a much better way of doing things, since the infrastructure is already there - maximum utilization of available resources.

To my knowledge we are the only country in the world that lets the pharmaceuticals advertise their wares. We are also the only one to let the pharmaceuticals directly control our medical practices.

Pharmaceuticals spend billions in advertising and in a recent study it was determined that the advertising makes no difference in “requested” drugs by patients. They also provide the government with results of the drug studies they have done and in recent years we see the results, in deaths and infirmary’s, by drugs originally deemed safe through fraudulent reporting.

Stop the advertising, tax a portion of that amount and funnel it through to research and see what a world of difference that would make. Take the other portion and put it towards lower costs in the current drugs.

In the late 1990’s there was a government report issued. It found that of all the heart medications available today, the 10 dollar drugs from the 1960’s were as effective as the newer 300 dollar drugs of today.

So why do people take the more expensive ones? Because the politicians are paid off with drug money and doctors must follow drug protocol or be open to lawsuits. That’s why there’s a pill for everything and everyone believes there’s a pill to cure.

Penteller wrote on January 16, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Those are some possibilities,

Those are some possibilities, although we have to be careful not to throttle innovation and do we really want the government controlling the development end of technology. Seed money from the Government to develop new technologies does work well and allowing for certain tax deductions for certain developments could possibly work.

The best way to combat this issue is through highly structured, publicly funded clinical trials and subsequent reports. This would establish the validity of a given drug, its assumed cost against older drugs that may be as good and at a fraction of the cost.

It’s a way of holding accountable the pharmaceuticals who now skew their testing and it would be the perfect way of guiding the industry. Since the drug compaies would think twice about bringing out a designer drug just to compete against something already there, especially since it would be reported to be no more better than cheaper alternatives.

In short, just make sure the playing field is clearly marked and let the market forces play out.

bluegrass wrote on January 16, 2011 at 10:01 pm

Can you explain the

Can you explain the difference between "Government," and "highly structured, publicly funded?"

Penteller wrote on January 14, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Today’s announcement by the

Today’s announcement by the Regressives in Washington to delay their Health Care Denial vote that would repeal the highly flawed health care bill recently passed, brought into clear focus what the Arizona shooting may end up being all about.

That of a failed and parasitic health care system.

From what has been gleaned so far from informational sources, we seem to have a family struggling like so many others, living the best that they can by driving 35 year old vehicles and encouraging their son to do better through getting an education.

A son that could be anyone’s, who began a decline in high school, rapidly succumbing to delusions and paranoia to a point of breaking, a break down with horrific and dire consequences.

But what could his family do? My guess is little if nothing.

Today’s health care system is based upon a profit based pharmaceutical industry that controls nearly every aspect of healthcare. A medical system so manipulated that no one without insurance or very deep financial pockets can get adequate treatment.

France has one of the highest public health care cost in all industrialized nations, yet they cover EVERYONE from cradle to grave at more than half the cost of the Americans medical system, which only covers a percentage of the population.

America has a dysfunctional health system leaving nearly 50 million without coverage and many millions more under covered. It is the only nation on the planet that has its citizen loosing their homes due to heath crisis so that pharmaceutical executives can by their third and forth.

So what was a poor family, struggling to get their son through college to do? Who could they turn to without money to pay? What agency could deal with the issue they were having? What mechanisms were in place to guide them and make sure proper care was achieved?

Today our prisons are filled with mental cases, who are warehoused at huge expense because mental institutionalization has somehow become a dirty word. Costing us considerably more in incarceration costs and social upheaval when released, to be revolved back in again when they re-commit crimes because they went off their medications.

Until we change our views on drugs and society in all forms, from the highly profitable war on drugs that see our legal, criminal and penal systems profit handsomely, to our pharmaceuticals that control our medical treatments, we will never be safe.

So where do we go from here? Will the Regressives deny us even more as they help the pharmaceuticals profit more? Will they kill the bill so others will die?

Death already exists in the form of denied insurance coverage, mentally deranged killers and pharmaceutical contamination.

As for a death panels, debating whether to let a brain dead 90 year old patient continue to receive a thousand dollar a day treatment, sounds a whole lot better than a crazed kid who could have been helped, helping himself to a hand gun.

Mattp

How wrong you are. At 57 years old and with relation on both sides of my parents that lived into their 90’s I really don’t want any extension drugs, as the thought of figuring out what to do with the next 50 years or so of my life is terrifying enough. And death for me is not a fear, as it is merely an opportunity for further truths.

I’ve already had doctors push “extension” drugs on me for my high blood pressure and is one reason I never go to them unless made to by my employer (which has happened twice). Drugs that I’ve been told will keep me from stroke or death, although they have no way of knowing if they really work for me because all the research is skewed in favor of taking the drug.

So I do practice what I preach and offer to others who are willing to learn, an alternative, cost effective and beneficial way of handling most health care issues.

thechampaignlife wrote on January 15, 2011 at 9:01 am

I wonder if guaranteeing

I wonder if guaranteeing profits in exchange for patent rights would work. Say, for example, that a drug company develops a new treatment for autism. The government pays their reasonable expenses plus a commission based on the severity of the condition it treats, how effectively it treats it with minimal side effects relative to other existing treatments, and the number of people that stand to benefit (all somewhat subjective but perhaps a citizens panel could make these determinations). For example, if it cures severe autism that affects a million kids with a natural drug and little side effects, it might pay out $900 million. If it only manages the disease but does so very effectively, it might pay out $600M. If it uses synthetic drugs or has some side effects, it might pay $300M. If it only treats a rare and minor illness affecting a few thousand people using a synthetic drug with unpleasant side effects, they might get as little as a few hundred thousand. You'd also probably want to limit the commission based on the company's past 10 or so years' expenses or net profit. If the entire company's expenses from the past 10 years including all its failed research only amounted to $10M, a $300M payout might be an excessive return on their investment. Similarly, if they've made a ton of money on other successful drugs, their commission might get throttled.

I'm just making up numbers here but you get the idea. The goal is to remove the companies' incentive to push a drug after it's been discovered and reward companies that find natural cures for a large need. The drug manufacture itself could be farmed out to any producer and either sold at cost or with a small profit to help the govt recover their outlay.

Just a thought from an economist's incentive-based perspective. What do you think?

Penteller wrote on January 12, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Yatiri Yes the drugging for

Yatiri

Yes the drugging for our children is truly legendary, but it is the drugging of adults that can get us killed. The recent shooting in Arizona of a Congresswoman brings up a question on my part, as to what kind of legal drugs might have the young man been exposed to over the years or was taking.

Of course MKUltra came to mind also, which in combination with certain drugs can become a highly effective tool for those wishing to nurture a certain agenda.

As for violence, the synthetic chemical nature of today’s pharmaceuticals can have adverse effects in anyone at anytime.
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/top-ten-legal-drugs-linked-to-violen...

mattp wrote on January 13, 2011 at 7:01 pm

Rubbish. Each of you talks so

Rubbish. Each of you talks so tough about this industry. However, I bet each of you would be first in line to take a drug that can extend your life. Talk is cheap until you need the benefit of these products.

Penteller wrote on January 11, 2011 at 2:01 pm

Yatiri Your absolutely right

Yatiri

Your absolutely right and the cartels trail of blood runs right to little granny’s door.

Like all good detective stories, “just follow the money and you find the criminal”, the parasitic pharmaceutical industry is no different.

These are international corporation paying little in taxes who prey upon the weakest among us that are many times desperately looking for hope. International cartels who pay off our protectors in order to continue their scam, as an ignorant population driven by desperate consumerism flock to their med-dealers for their next consumptive fix.

Meanwhile our imperial nation, intent upon crushing anyone who dares threaten our way of life, sees her people becoming more violent by the day. Violence sometimes inspired by radial political ideology and other times by the psychopathic drugs they take.

“Researchers found that patients using the antidepressant Paxil, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, were two times more likely to experience a “hostility event” than those who took a placebo.”
http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/news/antidepressant-violence.html

Interesting isn’t it, I’ve never met a depressed pot smoker have you? And there’s no such thing as a violent one. Maybe that’s why we’re so aggressive in punishing them, left un-detoured they would eventually cut into the politicians payoffs.

Yatiri wrote on January 11, 2011 at 5:01 pm

More and more citizens are on

More and more citizens are on paxil and other even more powerful mind altering drugs which they take year after year. The profits to the pharma are immense.

Also now children are being drugged chronically throughout their formative years without any research to back effectiveness, and absolutely no data on long term adverse effects.

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Yatiri wrote on January 11, 2011 at 10:01 am

These are powerful forces

These are powerful forces because of the huge amount of money in health care.
The corruption has affected the science because the pharmaceuticals fund all the research. Their goal is to get as many people as possible on their products and for the remainder of their life time.
The scientific reporting is deceptive and spins the drugs as "effective and safe" even if they aren't.

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thechampaignlife wrote on January 04, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Not sure how we'd ever make

Not sure how we'd ever make it happen, but what we need is a respectable international non-profit research organization devoted to healthcare working in order for prevention, natural/homeopathic/lifestyle cures, public domain synthetic cures, and finally disease management. Shouldn't this be what the World Health Organization does?

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selguy wrote on January 04, 2011 at 5:01 pm

this would make a good letter

this would make a good letter to the editor

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