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The Laws of the Pharmaceutical Business with Disease
Some people may say that the pharmaceutical industry cannot be that bad. Unfortunately, it is. Fortunately, however, it is very easy for everyone to understand why this industry has such a detrimental effect on millions of human lives.

It is not about individual drugs or individual companies. It is about the principles – the laws – of the pharmaceutical ‘business with disease’. The most important of these laws can be summarized in the following way:

1. The pharmaceutical industry is not a ‘health industry’, but an ‘investment business’ that thrives on the continuation and expansion of diseases.
2. The pharmaceutical industry makes more than 500 billion dollars in profits each year – but only as long as disease exist as their markets.
3. The pharmaceutical industry has built the largest fraud business in human history: it promises health to millions of people, but – instead of providing health – the drug industry delivers ever more diseases, because diseases are the economic basis for the existence of this investment business.
4. In order to protect their multi-billiondollar disease markets with cardiovascular disease, cancer, AIDS and other diseases, the pharmaceutical industry does everything to maintain these diseases and to avoid their eradication.
5. The multi-billion ‘merchandise’ of the pharmaceutical industry is synthetic drugs that are patented, in order to ensure huge profits from patent fees. Only newly invented synthetic molecules can be patented, which explains the toxicity and death rate in people taking these drugs.
6. Building this ‘business with disease’ over the past century, the pharmaceutical industry has raked so much money from this organized fraud that it has become one of the largest and most profitable industries on our planet today.
7. The pharmaceutical industry strategically invests the multi-billion profits from their global fraud business to infiltrate all sectors of society and influence public opinion around the globe.
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Interesting DrRathsite:
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I know that multi-national drug companies like to play God.

The price tag of expensive drugs that they charge is not based on the cost of research, the cost of production, or even the cost of marketing or distribution.

The costing is simple.

The more likelihood that the drug will keep you alive, the more expensive the drug. So if your life depends on the drug, that drug will be expensive. For example, Fluconzol costs up to $4,000 per month to treat a patient with some varieties of Meningitis.

HIV drugs cost almost as much. Imagine the strain on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Now that we are in the US Free Trade Agreement, there is little we can do with it. Australia is already under pressure over "non competitive trade practices" and patents laws over Australian generic brands.

Asprin in Woolworths costs 90 cents a box.

It is indeed an ethical death planet that you have discovered on the Dark Side of the corporate world. Even Darth Vader needs Ventalin.

It costs a lot of money for pharmaceutical companies to come up with a new drug. There is significant upfront costs in research, development, lab testing, implementation and approval. A lot of them fail along the way. While it is always desirable to have lower cost drugs (better through government subsidy for people who cannot afford it), it is important to acknowledge that these companies require a fair return for the risk they are taking and as incentives for further research.

It would be inappropriate to single out the pharmaceutical industry and not anyone other companies (big or small) for their profit-making motives. As with your other concern that pharma companies are deliberately making people sick etc, it is the job of the government and regulator to do their job properly, no different to other industries.

Yes, it is the job of government to regulate the industry. So why haven't they?

Secret conspiracy theories! I suppose man did not land on the moon eftfnc and 9/11 was an inside job done by the American government just so they could invade Iraq!

Did it ever cross your mind that it is these horrible companies are responsible for making all the medical break through and have improved our standard of living and life expectancy for decades and even today still continue to do so.

You honestly think that every company that produces drugs has a “secret” agreement with all others to hold back medical break throughs in the interests of their hip pockets?

Not even one has broken ranks to give the world the cure for cancer or a cure for aids? Imagine how much glory/money and Nobel prizes that person/company would receive! I am sure it would have tempted at least one person to break ranks if what you are saying is true eftfnc.

Do you think that the people who are holding back this research don’t have family and friends who desperately need there help but just so they can make afew extra bucks we will just keep it a secret and let mum die a slow painful death!

You see disease and death are self fulfilling prophecies if heart disease does not get you cancer will, if cancer does not get you MS will, if MS does not get you kidney disease will, if kidney disease does not get you……..
Until we are immortals and godly in physical nature there will always be a squillion dollars to be made when it comes to human health.

This is just another “Big business is out to get us” article!

Jesus have you looked at the linked site? Nutty stuff about how nutrients can fix just about any thing. Itll save the goverment a fortune though if people belive this crap because if they get sick theyll leave doctors allone and do there own thing with micronutrients.