Posts Tagged ‘big pharma’

The war on drugs should begin here in your medicine cabinet. This will help you avoid more problems than what you are being treated for. Just because it is refillable doesn’t mean you should.

There is growing skepticism about whether the FDA is making the right decisions and making them appropriately. People can’t depend on what the FDA decides since drug safety doesn’t have tight restrictions.  Not the kind than really mean anything to the average user.

Medications results are not as simple as black and white. Diabetes medications may get the numbers to look right, but they add nothing to longevity. Only a change of lifestyle can help with overall health. If the drug companies had to report past experiences to make new drug sales they would be losing business. However, a consumer with a short memory is what they count on.

The flagging sales of a drug means they just have to reposition it. They also have to find ways to built fiction into fact. The biggest investment for pharmaceuticals may be the job of getting the right advertisement, marketing, and lobbying. The pharmaceutical footprint is found in our waterways, soil, and livers.

In all fairness there is a case for acute care drugs. However, the money is in long term use for chronic condition. The expanded market reach calls for some reflection. The current trend is to depend on chemicals to change everything in our lives.

Staying involved in your own health is the most effective way to prevent the need for medical intervention. The future will see a dramatic increase in our dependence on unnatural substances to give us natural health.  

The truth is until the war on drugs start in our medicine chest, we will never win the war on illegal substances. Most illegal dug use is the kind than comes from a growing dependency on pills to solve our problems. Our kids get high on it and adults need higher doses more often to get any results.

Thinking ourside the pills, powder and liquids that dominate our everyday existence means exploring natural living. Before you can dump the pills you have to first stop what made you ill in the first place. Creating a healthy lifestyle means blasting your system with vitamins, minerals through good nutrition. There are many foods and some herbs that can stimulate, regenerate, protect, and saturate your body with powerful nutrients.

The war on drugs begins when one gets right to work on their own lifestyle.

Bill Maher understands the woo factor in medicine, and has proved it time and time again. From interviews on Larry King, to political satire, he has shown an understanding of the underpinnings of the legal drug culture.

I have seen the incredulous looks of newscasters, and other well known personalities as he talked about the dangers of vaccination. His take on the American diet is right on.

There are many posts that seem to say that Bill Maher spreads woo to the American public. What he does is set the record straight. He is left of center, and that sometimes is misunderstood. Conservatism in this case is keeping the status quo, so those in power can work the crowd.

The news commentary shows have an advertising base that pulls the strings. Pharmaceuticals and processed food make up much of the advertising dollars. It is rare that you have a newscaster with enough knowledge to know that there is a problem with not just the health care industry, but the whole premise of drugs for health.

If anyone ever watched a pharmaceutical ad it is obvious that something is wrong. If anything Bill Maher is the true conservative. He is saying take care of your own health, so you don’t have to rely on radical treatments.

Is Bill really a true conservative?

HEALTHCARE

The healthcare bubble is hopefully deflating in status, and clout. Evidence suggests that the once formidable giant works in conjunction with both the pharmaceutical giants and insurance industry. It both creates fortunes for those entities, while undermining our health.

With either a public or private option we will be working with an industry that does not acknowledge the truth. It is never what about the people, which should be the obvious and critical point. Today we see the phony nature of big business posing as an altruistic industry. Many have become disillusioned with the reckless speculative nature of pharmaceuticals. By allowing this to go on there is a mountain of money that is anticipated every time they roll out a drug.

DRUGS

Drugs are a potent force in the healthcare industry, and a formidable vehicle for investors. Institutional investments look for blockbuster drugs in the pipeline when considering a pharmaceutical company. We have to keep in mind that the manipulation of research can spur a buying spree by investors. The underlying story is that this kind of behavior by the drug cartel in not the exception.

BIG PHARMA

Big pharma is a complex problem, we look to pharmaceutical companies to be motivated by the potential good, not pass off a worthless or harmful drugs as a panacea. We have an unprecedented concentration of power that we never witnessed before, and it threatens to control our way of life. We have both the health and price issue, which suddenly can affect our physical and financial health. When seniors have to choose between medication or eating, the government forgets that they exist for our benefit.

GOVERNMENT

The pharmaceuticals are a commodity in the market, and this is why manipulation occurs. What the government agencies do when they witness abuse; launch another investigation. This is a thinly veiled attempt to look like they will not only check on something, but will do something. They themselves in short are in a complex relationship with this industry. We live with these realities, while the looming healthcare crisis is yet to happen.

The consequences of this will be a marked decline in our dollar, and our healthcare. Compassion is not the operative word here, it is a core belief that the nation depends on medical intervention. Here lies the problem good health is not the issue. Our healthcare is not about health, but it is accelerating disease. The catastrophe that is unfolding is now becoming obvious. Americans are in denial that their health is in their hands.

COST

The staggering cost of healthcare has not produced a healthier nation. We are in the mist of a health crisis, that is brought on in part by the very system that claims it helps us. The healthcare bubble has burst, and in a large measure it repudiates the claim that they are leading the nation to better health.