the united states has 'drug salesmen'. they come to the offices of the given doctors and make 'deals' with them, on how many prescriptions they sell of the given 'drug'.Posted by Dorjezigzag (here)
Could talk all day about this subject
I do not have time watch the video yet so please excuse if I am repeating.
It is my understanding that the US medical profession desire to create disorders and labels is related to the insurance nature of the medical industry there. Without a defined disorder there can be no pay out.
I have noticed friends who have been diagnosed with a disorder will often get worse after receiving this label than better. While before they only perhaps manifested a few symptoms after the diagnoses they start to conform more completely to the diagnoses.
Here is an snippet from an interesting lengthy article that I would recommend reading.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/ma...anted=all&_r=0For more than a generation now, we in the West have aggressively spread our modern knowledge of mental illness around the world. We have done this in the name of science, believing that our approaches reveal the biological basis of psychic suffering and dispel prescientific myths and harmful stigma. There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we’ve been exporting our Western “symptom repertoire” as well. That is, we’ve been changing not only the treatments but also the expression of mental illness in other cultures. Indeed, a handful of mental-health disorders — depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anorexia among them — now appear to be spreading across cultures with the speed of contagious diseases. These symptom clusters are becoming the lingua franca of human suffering, replacing indigenous forms of mental illness.
Seriously.
This is the ethical equivalent of fecal slime (crap feeding on crap), on the doctor and pharmacological level, as a pair of book ends.
It is calculated that over 50% of USA citizens are considered current for some form of 'meds', right now, and the number goes up to over 80% when we get to the elderly. IIRC. The numbers i give might be off by 5%, no more.
Once again, a closed circle of fecal slime, in the cumulative, what..$250 billion range or somewhere near that?
The USA does not have a health system, it has a purposely created, crafted and directed - parasite system.
Obamacare, stripped of all the pork that the corporations insisted be in there, was actually a good thing.
yet all the corporate paid shills and the congressional shills all joined in to make sure that the parasitic gravy train never ended. And the idea of functional health care in the USA was once again killed off, with the projected fear of commies and money grubbing, when the extant situation is far, far worse. (obamacare, with pork, is no better)
The USA corporations HATE the fact that Canada has a FUNCTIONAL and perfectly working health care system that is not based on parasitical feeding. It's too close to home for them, and they want it dead and to be able to feed off of Canadians, as well.
What Americans hear about the Canadian health system, is pure adulterated bull****, fed to them by the same people who never want them to know how functional and perfectly working it is.
The drug companies remain in Canada and work in that system, and it is profitable. But not to the same level as the USA, not by a long shot. almost 10 to 1 less profitable. It is just that they want MORE, and they can get it from the USA system, as it exists.
One must remember that these companies will spend billions to make sure that they get to feed off of people, to keep their hundreds of billions per year. what's a few billion spent on killing off issues? Nothing, it's the price of doing business. Buying people and governments and assassinating people is nothing, nothing at all. It is just a cost, a ledger sheet...nothing more.
See it for what it is.
one of my favorites:
Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, listening to his iPod while jogging, likely never saw or heard it before the aircraft hit him from behind Monday evening and killed him.