Health Means Education (VITAL)

+++ Important Facts for Your Election Decision +++

Published in the Miami Herald (Florida) and Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio) newspapers in the United States.

Economic growth, reducing national debt, creating new jobs and controlling health costs are leading topics in the Presidential election campaign. Despite much debate about these topics the key factor affecting all of these problems at the same time has remained obscure. This is even more surprising since this factor can be analyzed and identified with nearly mathematical precision:

The single most important factor directly or indirectly determining economic growth, budget deficit, unemployment rate and affordable health – is exploding healthcare costs.
The single most important factor driving the skyrocketing healthcare costs are the expenditures for pharmaceutical drugs.
If the majority of these drugs would target the prevention and elimination of diseases these expenses may be justifiable because they would eventually lead to fewer diseases – followed by less costs.
The facts, however, are the opposite: a). With few exceptions, all prescription drugs currently marketed in the US and other countries do not address or eliminate the root cause of diseases, they – at best – ameliorate symptoms. b) More than 40% of the prescription drugs currently taken by patients in the US are potentially carcinogenic – i.e. they can cause cancer. c) The known deadly side-effects of prescription drugs in the US are the third leading cause of death, surpassed only by mortalities from cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
A case in point is chemotherapy applied to cancer patients - allegedly to control cancer. The most frequent side-effect of chemotherapy, however, is the generation of new cancer – due to the toxicity of these drugs.
The explanation for all these facts is straightforward: The pharmaceutical industry is a giant investment industry that has defined diseases as markets. Worse, the entire existence of this industry is based on promoting and expanding these markets – i.e. diseases.
To mask this giant deception – offering health but promoting diseases – the drug industry has been hiring lobbyists in all areas of society, including medicine, media and politics.
Particularly devastating is the role of politicians that are politically or financially entangled with these interests. Mandated to protect the health of their constituency, they are tempted to promote the “business with disease” instead.
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