By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
According to an article published by Nando Media, U.S. Government estimates show that “health care” cost Americans a record $1.2 trillion last year. The article states that prescription drugs are accounting for nearly 10 percent of the costs related to maintaining one’s health.
Those numbers are growing steadily according to reports, the cost of prescription drugs are expected to grab an even larger share of the health care dollar as Americans spend more and more on drugs each year.
According to the article, overall health care spending will more than double to $2.6 trillion by 2010, this is expected since the costs of drugs are projected to rise an average of 12.6 percent every year. Americans spent $99.6 billion in 1999 on drugs, the last year for which figures for drug spending were available.
It seems as though everyone knows there is a problem yet the suggested solution is to continue doing the same thing over and over until we get the results we expect. If we keep giving drugs to healthy people what will we get?
Read this quote from the article, “Children won’t be getting the medicines they need to make them better. People of every age group will be suffering or they will have to neglect other basic needs.”
A picture painted of fear. These are the types of drug driven messages we see coming from a medically minded allopathic society. The message says that children cannot be healthy without taking drugs and that people of every age group will suffer if they can’t get their hands on the “life-giving pharmaceuticals” that are not available anywhere else but in a particular bottle of pills.
We hear questions such as: how do we get people to pay for drugs, how we get drugs to be more affordable, how do we get more drugs on the market?
I’d like to ask a few questions: How do we get people to be healthier without taking drugs? How do we get people to stop being dependent on drugs? How can we raise our children in a drug-free environment?
Nando Media: Health-care spending predicted to double by 2010
Did you ever hear the story about teaching a man to fish? Here is the pharmaceutical industry version: Give a man and drug and mask his symptom for a day. Teach a man that he can’t live without that drug and you have him hooked like a fish.
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