Critique of Chemotherapy and Pharmaceutical Profits
Chemotherapeutic drugs are the
only classification of drugs that the prescribing doctor gets a direct cut up.
So if your doctor prescribes chemotherapy for you, here's how it goes more or less.
The doctor buys it from the
pharmaceutical company for 5 000,
sells it to the patient for 12 000,
insurance pays 9 000 and the doctor pockets the 4 000 difference.
And there ought to be a lot.
The only reason chemotherapy is used
is because doctors make money from it, period.
It doesn't work 97 of the time.
If Ford Motor Company made an automobile
that exploded 97 of the time, would they still be in business? No.
This is the tip of the iceberg of the control
that the pharmaceutical industry has on us.
When women get together and do a 5K run for breast cancer,
all of that money, do you think any of that money goes to nutritional research?
Do you think any of that money goes to homeopathic research or
acupuncture or traditional Chinese medicine or naturopathic research? No.
All of it goes to...
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