Congress passed a Medicare prescription drug bill that is said to cost $400 billion over the next decade. This bill represents the largest expansion of the federal welfare state since the 1960s. The Medicare drug plan will force millions of older Americans to accept inferior drug coverage while it enriches pharmaceutical companies and cheats taxpayers.
It has been said, "nothing in the government is free," and prescription drugs will be no exception. As a result of the bill, 78% of seniors who have private prescription drug coverage will lose it altogether. The Congressional Budget office estimates that at least one-third of all private companies will dump their retirees into the Medicare system.
The Medicare program in the past cost four times more than estimated. If the government’s estimation of the drug program is $400 billion now then over the next 10 years the cost will be around one trillion dollars.
LewRockwell.com December 2, 2003
Can anyone honestly say that when the federal government gets involved they ever wind up spending less money than they had planned?
The $400 billion Medicare prescription drug bill that has passed is likely going to cost a great deal more. Looking at past history, in 1966 Medicare was introduced and was predicted to cost $12 billion by 1990. However, the cost was actually over $107 billion that year.
These are enormous sums of money.
And for what purpose?
For the ostensibly noble goal of improving the health of our senior citizens?
Absolutely not.
If you can't see through this smoke screen let me help you. The drug companies are behind this all the way -- they are the ones who will benefit from this government largesse.
The drug companies have spent over two billion dollars in the last couple of years on direct-to-consumer advertising so they could convince the public that their drug-based solutions were the way to health.
Fortunately, there are solutions, and I am committed to facilitate those with your help. There is no reason that the drug companies need to be enriched any further at the expense of our citizens.
I am dedicating the profits from my new book, "Dr. Mercola’s TOTAL HEALTH Cookbook & Program," to a major new non-profit health association I have co-founded with several other health partners. The mission of this non-profit will be to transform the healthcare paradigm in this nation, and eventually even beyond, to one focused on authentic health solutions. To one focused, in a word, on "wellness," versus the current prevalent model of merely treating disease and disorder after the fact.
My new book is one of the most important diet and health books you can own because it is guaranteed to improve your health, but at the same time it will go toward truly improving our healthcare system -- unlike the Medicare prescription drug bill disaster of 2003.
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