Big Pharma will bankrupt America

If you really look closely at the issue of health care costs in America, you'll eventually realize that unless trends are substantially altered, there can be only one outcome: The health care bankruptcy of America. Corporations simply cannot pay skyrocketing health insurance costs and simultaneously remain competitive in the global economy. For a 45-year-old manager working in the U.S., the monthly health insurance bill could easily exceed $700 all by itself — and that's higher than the entire monthly cost (salary and benefits included) of hiring a similarly skilled worker in many other countries.

Thanks to the massive political influence of Big Pharma, the United States has now become the most expensive country in the world in which to conduct business. And there are no signs of change, as the FDA seems wholly committed to protecting Big Pharma's profits by making it more difficult for generic drugs to receive approval (for example), and by continuing to discredit or outlaw herbs and natural medicines that actually prevent disease and make people healthier.

But elsewhere in the world, outright corruption in the health industry simply does not reach such extremes. Citizens of countries throughout Europe, Asia, South America and even New Zealand have far greater access to herbal medicine that really works. Plus, direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs is illegal everywhere in the world except the United States, meaning Americans are the only people crazy enough to tolerate the advertising of prescription drugs to a mass audience that isn't even qualified to prescribe those drugs. Only a doctor can prescribe them, so why isn't drug advertising limited to doctors?

It's going to get ugly around here
The bankruptcy of America won't be pretty. With 50% of Americans now on prescription drugs, and with 20% of children taking mind-altering drugs, we are simultaneously facing an economic downfall and a collapse of mental capabilities throughout the population. Except for a small percentage of people who follow natural, healthy lifestyles, the population at large can no longer think clearly. Most people suffer from drug-induced brain fog, a common side effect of many of the top prescription drugs now being promoted on television in the United States. This widespread brain fog makes it extremely difficult for these people to function as intelligent, productive citizens.

As a result, academic standards in the U.S. are a joke. And as a nation, we've chosen to let psychiatry drug our schoolchildren with mind-altering chemicals rather than actually teach them something useful. So we're producing a generation of brain-suppressed drug addicts and calling it public education. How will these children compete with the extremely smart, disciplined, hard-working students of countries like India, China, and Korea when it comes time to find a job in the global marketplace?

The answer, of course, is that they won't compete. There's no competition. U.S. citizens will be increasingly relegated to switching to jobs that can't be outsourced to other countries, like flipping burgers, greeting customers at Wal-Mart, or working as nurses.

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