[Editor's Note: I'm re posting this story to remind you that it's INSANITY to be paying obscene sums of money for pharmaceutical prescriptions when you can relieve and CURE any disease condition using inexpensive Nature-based medicine and employing natural, non-drug therapies. You don't NEED drugs to address health concerns. Besides being the most expensive and the most harmful 'treatment' for the body, allopathic (drug based) medicine is the WORST possible way to treat disease from a view of long term recovery. Drug based medicine is CONTROLLED POISONING of the body to permit a TEMPORARY RELIEF of symptoms. Pharmaceuticals have NEVER cured any disease condition and NEVER will. The body's own immune system, a function of Nature, is alone responsible for the cure of disease. The BEST way to assist the body in ridding itself of disease or discomfort is to use medicinal substances or therapies which are Nature based and therefore in HARMONY with the energy fields and complex chemistry of the human body. There are many excellent books on natural medicine and Nature based healing, but "The Cure for All Disease" by Dr. Hulda Clark is the book I turn to most often when investigating a health problem. ...Ken Adachi]

By Greg Palast
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July 1, 2005

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I was in the drug store today out here in Podunk. Some old guy in front of me was picking up his little paper bag of prescription medicine. The lady behind the counter handed him a credit card slip and said, "I'm sorry."

She was sorry because the bill was over $1,200. The old man stared at the charge card receipt and stared at it some more. Hesitating, he signed, then said, "I hope I die before I have to pay for the next re-fill."

He wasn't joking. The lady behind the counter said, "Oh, don't ever say that." And she said it in such a way that it was clear she'd heard the same thought before, in different words, from too many of the old folk that come by.

And I was thinking, "I wonder if he voted for Bush?"

I mean, did he vote for the man who would stop boys from kissing boys, who would allow big stone icons of the Ten Commandments in the Podunk courthouse, who would get Saddam before he got us? In other words, was he a blind soldier in Karl Rove's army of the angry who would rather vote against themselves, for deadly high drug prices dictated by Big Pharma, for no national health insurance, in return for a promise from George Bush that he will be the malicious defender of their prejudices?

The polls tell us that Americans are in an ugly mood: too many jobs leaving for China, too many body bags returning from Iraq, and a bad feeling about a President grabbing for grandma's social security check.

America is hurting. But what really hurts is that the wounds are self-inflicted.

Happy Fourth of July, compadres. And stay healthy.

Greg Palast

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