The Drug Companies Next Big Scheme to Grab Your Cash

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Companies Next Big Scheme to Grab Your Cash

 

The Drug Companies Next Big Scheme to Grab Your Cash-

 

Coming Soon: a new series of ads by the drug companies designed to scare you

into your doctor’s office to have your blood pressure checked. Even if your

blood pressure has been perfectly normal in the past, your M. D may likely

tell you " It’s now too high. " That’s because a new understanding of

hypertension has prompted the AMA to change their guidelines for healthy

blood pressure. A reading of 120/80 is no longer safe. " You’ve got to bring

your blood pressure down right away, " your doctor may say. Of course, the

fastest, easiest way to accomplish this, he’ll probably tell you, is to go

on one of today’s new wonder drugs.

 

It worked before, so they’re trying it again

 

Sound familiar? It should. This is the same strategy the drug companies used

two years ago to capitalize on the change in the official cholesterol

guidelines. When doctors lowered the level for healthy cholesterol from 220

to 200, the number of people in the U. S who " should be " on medication

TRIPLED. Overnight, 24 million potential new customers were created!

 

The drug companies profited handsomely. In just two years, cholesterol-drug

sales increased by a whopping 32.5 percent! Last year alone, doctors wrote

more than 119 million statin prescriptions, and the drug companies made

$12.5 billion from them. (The $1.4 billion they spent on all those scary TV

and magazine ads didn’t hurt either).

 

The scheme worked so well, they’re at it again with blood pressure drugs.

This time, 45 million Americans who once thought they had " healthy " blood

pressure will be told they have a new medical condition called

" pre-hypertension " that needs treatment.

 

Doctors orders- Because it’s the doctor saying this, most patients will

comply. The drug companies realize this. That’s why they spend more than

$14,000 on every M. D in this country, currying their favor and pushing

their products with free samples…. Lavish dinners… free tickets to sporting

events and concerts plus all expenses paid golf vacations in the Caribbean

Islands billed as " educational seminars. " When Big Pharma spends billions of

dollars on slick TV ads to frighten you into " seeing your doctor " they

already know what your doctor is going to say. This strategy is so sneaky it

ought to be illegal. But the overwhelming wealth and power of the drug

industry is beyond belief- and beyond law. They control every aspect of

modern medicine. They've brainwashed physicians and patients into believing

that drugs are the only trustworthy treatments we have. They wield influence

over the medical boards who write treatment guidelines over the insurance

companies who determine which treatments they’ll pay for over the FDA who

" approve " these drugs and over Congress and the White House who write and

pass laws that protect and favor the drug industry. When you are the single

most profitable industry on the planet (which they are), you can buy a lot

of clout. And part of that clout is directed at squashing any competition,

especially non-drug therapies. But don’t be foolish either. Untreated

hypertension is the most serious danger to your health today, but you don’t

have to get sucked into going the drug route because there are many natural

solutions solutions for any kind of aliment.

 

Source information: Repost: Health & Healing, Dr. Julian Whitaker