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To: Bill who wrote (68)	11/6/2002 4:05:05 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

I dont' think there are too many non-partisan links, since the lobbyists have saturated both parties. In 1963 there were 65 registered lobbyists, now with twice the population THERE ARE NOW 20,000 REGISTERED LOBBYISTS, jamming kleptocratic legislation down our throats. Those millions allow billions to be extracted from citizens. Here are some radicals to start with: " the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship." -- Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. uua.org libertarianthought.com Harsh indeed -- here was a guy who complained to General Washington about poor medical service to troops during his term as Surgeon General during the Revolutionary War. He saw even then the potential for insider profiteers creating a monopoly by special deals and withholding information. I sent that to my brother who is an East Coast doc, seeing other docs flee the high insurance and legal costs. Only a fraction of the funds we pay go to docs and nurses for actual care. The vast majority goes to the medical-industrial complex of insurance, attny firms and drug cos. Nader and others nader.org mnwelldir.org "...the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing diseases. The eradication of any disease inevitably destroys a multi-billion dollar market of prescription drugs. Therefore, pharmaceutical drugs are primarily developed to relieve symptoms, but not to cure. If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and developed, the industry has a basic interest to suppress, discredit and obstruct these medical breakthroughs in order to make sure that diseases continue as the very basis for a lucrative prescription drug market. The economic interest of the pharmaceutical industry is the main reason why no medical breakthrough has been made for the control of the most common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, cancer, and osteoporosis, and why these diseases continue like epidemics on a worldwide scale. For the same economic reasons, the pharmaceutical industry has now formed an international cartel by the code name "Codex Alimentarius" with the aim to outlaw any health information in connection with vitamins and to limit free access to natural therapies on a worldwide scale. citizen.org Drug Industry: Prices, Profits, R&D, Campaign Contributions & Lobbying