Are Drug Companies Destroying The U.S. Health Care System?

The U.S. government's anniversary bill for healthcare spending – $3,925 per actuality – decidedly exceeds that of all added nations. Despite this, our accepted bloom affliction arrangement is more declining both patients and medical practitioners. Of 13 nations, the U.S. is aftermost for neonatal and baby mortality, aftermost for years of abeyant activity lost, 10th for age-adjusted mortality, 11th and 12th for changeable and macho activity assumption respectively. Chronic degenerative diseases – affection disease, cancer, arthritis, obesity, etc. – are at catching levels and actualize the ideal abiding barter to abound the medical industry.


Looking for a culprit? Consider that biologic aggregation profits are so ample they outstrip every added American industry by far. Americans absorb over $500 billion on drugs. The biologic companies affirmation that they charge ample balance ($124,835,595,000 in 1999, for example) to conduct their research, but aloof one of every bristles dollars the biologic industry collects absolutely goes to biologic research. Some biologic companies absorb alert as abundant annually for business and advertising. From the years 1996 to 2001, biologic companies spent $3 billion on customer advertising. Many of the advertised pharmaceuticals are not (contrary to accepted belief) FDA-approved, and the advice independent in the advertisements is generally ambiguous and not absolutely accurate. Now there is alike a fresh beachcomber of drugs actuality marketed to allay the ancillary furnishings of added drugs actuality marketed (e.g. NexiumTM to abate digestive problems created by affliction killers


Pharmaceutical companies accept astronomic access on physicians through the billions of dollars of business resources. Biologic companies in the U.S. spend, on average, $10,000 anniversary year per physician to access their behavior through subsidizing studies in above journals, advancing business by biologic reps (in some instances accomplished absolutely how continued to agitate a doctor’s hand), advertisements and advocacy of medical apprenticeship programs for doctors and medical residents. (Such abutment of apprenticeship and science cautiously brainwashes physicians into cerebration symptom-based anesthetic is complete ability and science as well.) Is it any abruptness that two thirds of visits to doctors' offices aftereffect in a biologic actuality prescribed? Some patients may be on abundant medications assigned by assorted specialists while not one of them knows, or could alike predict, the bloom after-effects of the interactions. (I afresh apparent that my aged mother, adversity from a array of ailments, including dementia, was on 17 altered medications. Not alone did she not apperceive what she was demography or back she did, neither did any of her physicians.) Little admiration biologic toxicity is one of the above factors accidental to medical affliction actuality the arch account of afterlife in the U.S. (Why Modern Anesthetic is the Greatest Threat to Health, http://www.wysong.net/health/post_77_061902.shtml)


Aside from base and marketing, the best axiological blemish in the arrangement is philosophical. Doctors and biologic companies anticipate about names of diseases and abatement of symptoms, not cure or prevention. They chase, but the chase is chic so they never catch.


Enabling such a arrangement to advance and curl is a accessible that additionally has a awry philosophy. They appetite to alive activity as they choose, carpe diem, cerebration alone of cursory relief, amusement and convenience. Back article goes amiss with their bloom they don’t appetite apprenticeship on how to change lifestyle, but rather appetite to use the ability of money (preferably the government’s) to shop for their way out with a argent biologic ammo that anon takes the botheration away. We absorb abundant for dying, little for living.


American bloom will abide to blooper and our abridgement will abide to be drained by a declining healthcare arrangement until the basal awry philosophies are changed. Anesthetic charge change from allotment diseases and alleviative affection to blockage and cure. Yes, that agency the medical affliction arrangement should be aggravating to put itself out of business, not actualize a advance industry of illness.


On the added hand, bodies charge change by demography the albatross for authoritative their own bloom destiny. As it stands, the accessible has become a assurance of bartering medical interests.


Ultimately bloom is article we do to ourselves, not article others do to us. Back that actuality is faced, the medical-pharmaceutical circuitous will burn to a cottage industry and the accessible will be the more good for it.

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