Governments collapse when ineptitude and corruption reach such outrageous magnitudes that the citizenry has no choice but to revolt.
Since 1980, William Faloon and the Life Extension Foundation® have published articles exposing how over-regulation in the United States causes lifesaving medications to be delayed, or suppressed altogether. In this book, Faloon reveals in meticulous detail how consumers pay inflated prices for what are often dangerous and only minimally effective FDA-approved therapies.
While Pharmocracy uncovers egregious FDA incompetence and abuse, it is Congress that provides the FDA with enabling laws that result in needless suffering and death.
Pharmocracy presents factual and irrefutable logic to reform today’s broken healthcare system that is financially devastating the United States.
“There’s an entire world of reliable research-based scientific information about preventing illness and treating disease with safe natural substances—vitamins, minerals, botanicals, and other things—that’s being deliberately hidden from you! If you prefer patent medicines (“pharmaceuticals”), you are also being deliberately prevented from accessing them at the very best prices. No, I’m not kidding or exaggerating at all. If all of this information were made freely available, and barriers to access were eliminated, the cost of health care would drop dramatically within just a few years, and both as individuals and a nation, we’d be much healthier with much less expense.
Bill Faloon’s Pharmocracy details exactly why this enormous amount of information is being withheld, and describes precisely how it is being done, despite our Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. He writes about the “barriers to access” to less expensive patent medicines (“pharmaceuticals”). Please read this book if you want to know why—despite miracle surgeries and diagnostic techniques—American health care is much more costly and less effective than it could be if we truly had freedom of choice, freedom of information and freedom of access here in these United States of America.
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Healthcare is bankrupting the United States. Medical costs have escalated to a level that individuals, businesses, and debt-laden governments can no longer afford to pay for it.
There is a real-world solution.
Congress can create new legislation that will allow free-market forces to drive down sick care costs, better enable disease prevention, and rapidly perfect curative therapies. This book provides factual documentation on just how broken the US healthcare system is today. It is over 300 pages long because there are at least that many reasons why healthcare costs far more than it should.
Until now, no one has identified and amalgamated the plethora of illogical regulations that directly cause healthcare to be so overpriced.
While this book attacks FDA corruption and ineptitude, Congress is the body of government that provides the FDA with enabling laws that ultimately result in needless suffering and death—while the nation descends into financial ruination.
Implementing free-market approaches can spare Medicare and Medicaid from insolvency, while significantly improving the health and productivity of the American public.
Pharmocracy provides an irrefutable and rational basis to remove the suffocating compulsory aspect of healthcare regulation and allow free-market forces to compete against government-sanctioned medicine.
This book documents how the free market can provide superior healthcare at far lower prices while better protecting consumers.
I fear that disregard of the obvious problems revealed in this book will condemn the United States to a downward economic spiral with little improvement in human longevity.
A fierce debate is raging as to who will pay for this nation’s skyrocketing “sick-care” costs.
Private companies have scaled back sharply on the healthcare coverage they used to provide. Employees now pay an increasing percentage of their medical insurance premiums, along with higher deductibles, co-pays, and no-pays (i.e., exclusions). Many businesses provide their employees with no health coverage.
Based on the median income in the United States, the typical family cannot come close to paying the staggering cost of healthcare themselves.
It seems rather odd, but since neither the private business sector nor individuals can afford today’s sick-care costs, the burden is increasingly being borne by the sector least able to pay, i.e., heavily indebted local, state, and federal governments. Even those covered by government insurance (such as retired veterans, municipal employees, and Medicare recipients) are facing higher medical insurance premiums.
The federal government is already saddled with a huge unfunded Medicare liability. No one has figured out where the money will come from to cover these future healthcare costs.
To put Medicare alone into context, the unfunded liability is now $24.6 trillion. Yet total federal tax revenue taken in annually (which includes Medicare premiums) is only around $2 trillion. As our president stated in 2010, we are approaching a point where government will have to spend more money on Medicare than on every other federal program combined!
This does not count the escalating costs of Medicaid (sick-care coverage for the poor) that are shared by federal and state governments. Medicaid is funded with current tax revenue and newly issued debt, but its spiraling growth has created a new multi-trillion dollar unfunded liability, and no one knows where the money will come from to pay it.
Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison because he took investors’ money and diverted it to other purposes. The federal government forced Americans to pay Medicare premiums their entire lives. Instead of those premiums being placed in a reserve fund for future use, they were squandered on whatever was most politically expedient at the time, which included overpaying—with tax dollars— those with the right connections.
While Madoff will spend the rest of his life incarcerated, no one talks about bringing civil or criminal charges against those responsible for the largest Ponzi scheme in the history of the human race: Medicare, with its $24.6 trillion of unfunded liabilities.
Like the federal government, many local and state governments have also operated a Ponzi scheme of unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities they cannot pay. Since the federal government is mathematically insolvent, it seems ludicrous to assume that exorbitant sick-care costs can be resolved by any level of government.
While politicians aimlessly point fingers over who should pay America’s medical bills, please remember that there is a real-world solution. Healthcare in the United States is so tightly regulated that it in many ways resembles the inefficiencies of Maoist China, where the economy suffocated for decades from erratic and illogical governmental decrees. As China lifted its regulatory stranglehold, prosperity flourished. It’s time for US leaders to follow China’s example and stop over-regulating medicine!
Let’s take a look at the science supporting the consumption of walnuts to see what the FDA censored . . . and what you can do to stop it in the future!
Ingesting nuts used to be considered unhealthy because of their high fat content. This misconception has changed over the past 18 years as human studies have revealed sharply reduced incidence of heart disease in those who consume walnuts.
Unlike some nuts, walnuts provide a unique blend of polyunsaturated fatty acids (including omega-3s), along with nutrients like gamma-tocopherol that have demonstrated heart health benefits.
The March 4, 1993 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published the first clinical study showing significant reductions in dangerous LDL and improvement in the lipoprotein profile in response to moderate consumption of walnuts. Later studies revealed that walnuts improve endothelial function in ways that are independent of cholesterol reduction.
As most Life Extension® members are aware, the underlying cause of atherosclerosis is progressive endothelial dysfunction. Walnuts contain a variety of nutrients including arginine, polyphenols, and omega-3s that support the inner arterial lining and guard against abnormal platelet aggregation. These favorable biological effects explain why walnut consumption confers protection against coronary artery disease.
In the FDA’s warning letter to Diamond Foods, nowhere is there any challenge questioning the science cited by Diamond Foods to support their health claims.
Based on our review, we have concluded that your walnut products are in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and the applicable regulations in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR).
Additionally, your walnut products are offered for conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners; therefore, adequate directions for use cannot be written so that a layperson can use these drugs safely for their intended purposes. Thus, your walnut products are also misbranded under section 502(f)(1) of the Act, in that the labeling for these drugs fails to bear adequate directions for use [21 U.S.C. §352(f)(1)].