Duality of the Heart and Washington

By Dr. Evelyn Higgins

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the U.S. The ridiculous part is that the largest killer is PREVENTABLE! And, by the way, we consider ourselves to be an educated, evolved society. Preventable, yet what we “prescribe” culturally as the answer is Big Pharma. The statin drug market is a $20 billion-a-year racket alone. In an industry that spends $50 billion on advertising alone, with an additional $20 billion on lobbying, the first action step requires an honest inventory of the relationship of Big Pharma and the politicians it gets elected to run “our” government. You can afford $50 billion in advertising when you make $20 billion just on statins. And, I would totally agree with the statin mentality if it solved the problem. We wouldn’t have a $500 billion tab for heart disease yearly if the stuff was the answer! [more…]