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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx</link><description>Drug companies are billing the U.S. public for AT LEAST $1 trillion. This is, without any doubt in my mind, one of the biggest scandals in the history of the United States . This Medicare drug plan fiasco enriches pharmaceutical companies, fleeces taxpayers</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102142</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:25:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102142</guid><dc:creator>kryysteez</dc:creator><description>The first thing to do is to refuse to be vaccinated.&amp;nbsp; Vaccines are the whole cause of disease.&amp;nbsp; If we dont have disease we wont need the pharmaceuticals.&amp;nbsp; They are trying to ban the exemptions you need&amp;nbsp; to refuse vaccines.&amp;nbsp; They want to trap everyone into their mandatory GENOCIDE.&amp;nbsp; The spanish flu that killed 20,000,000 in 1918 came directly from the vaccine that they told every American to immediately&lt;br&gt;go stand in line for, only to drop like FLIES&amp;nbsp;to their death.&amp;nbsp; Those who did not get the vaccine, did not get sick even after caring for the dying&lt;br&gt;mass of people.&amp;nbsp; Vaccines are the major cause of SIDS and Shaken Baby Syndrome.&amp;nbsp; Doctors have caused alot of parents and daycare workers to go to prison after pointing the finger at them and not the vaccine that caused it.&amp;nbsp; Elizabeth Whittle in Arizona, is currently serving 150 years for shaking her quadruplets and causing major damage to them.&amp;nbsp; Common sense would tell you that she could not have shaken all four at the same time and give them all the same results and not be seen doing it.&amp;nbsp; She had a specialist at her trial to testify how vaccines produce the same effects as SBS, and the court would not allow him in to speak, nor would they allow any talk of vaccines.&amp;nbsp; There are many people like her in prison who are innocent.&amp;nbsp; Vaccines have caused more destruction than anything ever imaginable.&amp;nbsp; SIDS doesnt have to happen.&amp;nbsp; Stop giving vaccines to newborn infants, it destroys their immune system.&amp;nbsp; Leave their immune system alone and you will have a happy, disease free wonderful child.&amp;nbsp; Just like the Amish people do.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102142" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102141</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:57:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102141</guid><dc:creator>Cthulhu</dc:creator><description>They can pass all the bills they want, but, in the end, if we get people to stop taking those deadly drugs and educated them about TRUE HEALTH. I'm sure there were plenty of night birds watching this late at night, which is better than not having it air at all I guess.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102141" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102140</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:56:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102140</guid><dc:creator>curious7</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;As an American who tries to keep up with the comings, and goings on Capitol Hill, I am not shocked.&amp;nbsp; This is what I have come to expect from our government.&amp;nbsp; We have a single minded healthcare system in this country, that is designed to enrich the drugs companies, and this same type of deciet goes on in every industry that does business with our government.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Congress no longer writes legislation, big business does it for them, and they just rubber stamp the same, without so much as a look see as to what the bill actually says, or permits.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For more on how your Congress does not do it's J-O-B, read "Broken Branch" by Mann, and Ornstein.&amp;nbsp; See what fools the American people are thought to be.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102140" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102137</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:48:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102137</guid><dc:creator>Goddess38</dc:creator><description>Comment deleted due to inappropriate content.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102137" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102136</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:42:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102136</guid><dc:creator>richardg</dc:creator><description>The solution is really quite simple and I'm sure everyone has already heard it. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Just say no drugs!&lt;br&gt;I haven't used any drugs for over 20 years (except for novacaine) and at 61 I'm doing well. I credit reflexology for control of occasional headache or back pain. &lt;br&gt;If I don't like somebody I try to find ways to not support them. Now if I could just kick the gasoline habit.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102136" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102135</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:23:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102135</guid><dc:creator>Marnie1</dc:creator><description>I think we can take a step in the right direction by first getting all the prescription drug ads off television.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I didn't think anything about it for the most part, other than feeling so very sorry for Sally Fields' friend who had to "set aside time every week to take a osteoperisis pill"--how terrible to be inconvenienced by a 30 second act every week!!&amp;nbsp; Obviously, Boniva is the answer (certainly not broccoli).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, I was hit with the reality of how truly evil and vile the Pharma industry is when my 4 1/2 year son asked me if he should be concerned and find out about Cialis.&amp;nbsp; What the H**LL????&amp;nbsp; This is on prime time TV that he got this!!&amp;nbsp; And it's more than just the ads--think about it.&amp;nbsp; He is being programmed subliminally by these slick ads that he needs to take drugs!!&amp;nbsp; When he becomes an adult, will he be resistant to his doctor's advice to throw back a pill evey time the slightest ailment comes along?&amp;nbsp; (Yes he will, thanks to me, but what about all those kids that don't have diligent parents??)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And, by the way, what's with Public Broadcasting having ads for Lunesta?&amp;nbsp; I can't believe they have sold out to Pharma.&amp;nbsp; I know they need to make money, but Pharma?&amp;nbsp; And only a touch of irony here--isn't PBS in itself sometimes a good sleep&amp;nbsp; aid?&amp;nbsp; ;-)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&amp;nbsp;was done with Coca Cola and Married With Children a few years ago--lobby the broadcasting companies and tell them to get rid of the ads.&amp;nbsp; Lobby politicians and tell them to ban these ads.&amp;nbsp; Cigarettes and tobacco is banned--why can't we get rid of pharmaceuticals??? &lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102135" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102134</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:03:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102134</guid><dc:creator>anita_millencovey</dc:creator><description>You mentioned that Ron Paul is the smart person's candidate for president. I thought so until I read that he is in favor of the merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico. This sounds like a rotten idea to me. &lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102134" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102133</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:38:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102133</guid><dc:creator>MITCHIND</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;IN THE USA YOU ARE SCREWED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND PHARA COMPANIES.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;In Australia the government subsidises us as citizens by buying 2600 drugs under the PBS pharmaceutical benefits scheme. It means big business to whos on the list. Say a $80 or $400 drug on this list we pay $32.00 or if a pensioner or&amp;nbsp;veteran around $12.00&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To be on the list a company has to prove its porducts can do good. Plus it has to come to the party the government on price.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We have a big pharma industries here with most of the giants with substantial factories and labs. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also its&amp;nbsp; smaller countries or a small pond with many big fihses so the prices are lower anyway even unsubsidised.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Do a web search on the PBS and show it your congress person or sentaor and tell them you want something like this and for them to screw the pharma company for bulk buys liske the aussien government does , plus most EU governments too.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I know your does not. it said so in a TIME article 2-3 years ago. If your federal government and ( state too) got the same prices as your private hospital chains it would save usd 675 million per year, lets alone what it could gte if it did what our government does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If they do not respond do a California and do a recall like with Davis grey, use the power of your constitution, after a few recals those on the hill will get the message.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We spend less per health per capita and live 3 years longer than you. Your Seven day adventisits and their diet which is better but not ideal live 6.5 years longer than your average. See &lt;a href="http://www.annewigmore.org"&gt;www.annewigmore.org&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.hippocrates.com.au"&gt;www.hippocrates.com.au&lt;/a&gt; and send the inefficients pahrma broke.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Remember your most powerfl vote is how you spend your money&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102133" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102132</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:06:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102132</guid><dc:creator>pookey</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why spread the poison? Recycle the plastic and avoid it in the future. &lt;br&gt;Kudos to the lobbying. This is easier than you'd think, and also harder than you'd think. But we have to keep trying.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102132" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102131</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:49:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102131</guid><dc:creator>Rett</dc:creator><description>It is no surprise to me.&amp;nbsp; We are destroying ourselves from the inside out thanks to lies and greed and corruption.&amp;nbsp; I damaged myself all those years when I didn't want to hear that all those soda pops&amp;nbsp;and bad food choices were&amp;nbsp;not good for me.&amp;nbsp; I've had two doctors in the last two years&amp;nbsp;refuse me care because I have learned that drugs are not the answer to my health concerns. Many doctors are useless thanks to the influences of big pharma.&amp;nbsp; My husband is retired military. I can get prescriptions filled free. :) Why must I&amp;nbsp;be so difficult about this?&amp;nbsp; Daaa!&amp;nbsp;What is classified as food in grocery stores is not even close to nutritious.&amp;nbsp; I had a mild heart attack that lead to me okaying a triple bypass&amp;nbsp;because I didn't know any better.&amp;nbsp;Before that happened, I had avoided doctors like the plague. &amp;nbsp;I have type 2 diabetes and I have a very bad case of psoriasis and I'm maybe 75 to 100 pounds over-weight.&amp;nbsp;And I'm over 61 years. &amp;nbsp;Now there is a commercial on TV that tells parents it's&amp;nbsp;"smart" to give your kids a popular sweet cereal as an afternoon snack.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;May God have mercy on us all.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102131" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102129</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:46:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102129</guid><dc:creator>Katee</dc:creator><description>Comment deleted due to inappropriate content.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102129" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102128</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:50:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102128</guid><dc:creator>Mrs.Smith</dc:creator><description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;I wish we would elect Ron Paul for our next President.&lt;br&gt;I agree with everything in this article.&lt;br&gt;Mary S,&amp;nbsp; Tn.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102128" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102127</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:07:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102127</guid><dc:creator>LENZKESR</dc:creator><description>Just thought I'd do a little "fair and balance" act. I've recently heard that most of our vitamins and supplements are now made in China. I believe that the healthfood business is almost as devious as "big drug". When I go to health food stores I see a ton of JUNK that I wouldn't put in my body! Most of the baked goods are made with canola oil for one. Also, what supplements do I really need when I have my own garden, eat fish from Alaska, and buy grass fed beef.&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102127" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102125</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:27:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102125</guid><dc:creator>freetorun</dc:creator><description>This is my first time commeting on this site, and I have to say, there is great information here.&amp;nbsp; I have been very cynical of the conventional medical establishment for years...I stopped vaccinating my children when my 14 year old was 18 months, and we rarely see a doctor, only when there has been a physical injury.&amp;nbsp; I am aiming more and more to stay away from processed foods, chemical cleaners, etc...I now raise goats for milk, have chickens for fresh eggs and meat, and grow a veggie garden.&amp;nbsp; And I totally believe in getting the word out on the dangers of processed foods, and our medical system.&amp;nbsp; The problem I have is that either people think I am an extremist (my husband) and or believe there is nothing they can do about it.&amp;nbsp; It makes me feel helpless against the machine.&amp;nbsp; The government is now putting pressure on us people who raise our own animals for food with the national animal id system and all the expenses of tagging and testing...what can we do?&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102125" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Trillion Dollar Health Scam</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/06/06/Trillion-Dollar-Health-Scam.aspx#102124</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:18:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:102124</guid><dc:creator>Rick Burgess</dc:creator><description>Dr. Mercola,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks again for a daring and revealing article in your never ending quest to expose those who take avantage of us and tinker with our health. You are my favortie source of true unadulterated information. As soon as we learn to live healthy we could effectively put the huge pharmacueticals out of business..&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thankyou,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rick Burgess&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=102124" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>