We have given the largest business on Earth – the pharmaceutical industry – full control over our health. Since decades ago, Big Pharma funds virtually all research into disease and cure and controls academics and healthcare professionals.
In China, people used to pay their family doctors a modest monthly fee, but when they got ill, they stopped until the doctor helped them get better. Such a system tries to keep people healthy out of self-interest.
Enter capitalism.
Since the early 1930’s, the Rockefeller family privatized the US healthcare industry, and similar takeovers occured in other Western countries. The result was a cartel controlling:
All medical textbooks,
All scientific research into the causes of disease,
All scientific research into the creation of medicines,
All published information about medical issues in popular and professional literature,
All national and international laws governing medicine and medicines,
All production, pricing and distribution of all medicines and soon, with Codex Alimentarius, even vitamins and minerals.
Their profits are enormous because their pricing strategy has nothing to do with the cost of developing medicines – it simply reflects what the market will bear, and all costs incurred in securing a patent monopoly on the drug’s derivatives are passed on to the market.
They deliberately do not delve into the real causes of disease, because that would lead to the slaughter of the goose with the golden eggs: The need for eternal symptom relief.
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