"If mainstream medicine really works, why are Americans so \nunhealthy?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nby Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, \nNaturalNews Editor \n\nDid you ever \nwonder why such an alarmingly high percentage of Americans are obese, diabetic, \ndepressed and suffering from cancer, heart disease, kidney disorders and skin \nproblems? Now consider the fact that \nAmericans pay more per capita for health \ncare than any other nation in the world\n. Americans pay the highest prices, \nby far, for medications, medical imaging scans, blood work, surgeries, \nchemotherapy and hospital stays. And yet what does America have to show for it? \nThe most universally diseased population in the world -- and a nation on the \nverge of bankruptcy caused in part by mainstream medicine.\nBut this isn't \na slam on America itself: It's an indictment of the mainstream medical system \nthat has been running a monopoly medical racket in America for roughly the last \nhundred years. Under the system of monopolistic medical practices enforced by \nthe FDA, AMA, FTC and state medical boards, "mainstream medicine" has taken a \nnation that was once relatively healthy and turned it into a disease dystopia \nwhere patients are actually taught that nutrition doesn't work and that they \nmust submit to patented chemicals in order to be "normal" or \nhealthy.\nMainstream medicine has reached such a level of insanity that \nits corporations now claim intellectual ownership over nearly 20 percent of the \nhuman genome. This has all been done to create a corporate monopoly over human \ngenes in the same way that mainstream medicine has already created an \nFDA-enforced monopoly over isolated chemicals -- many of which were ripped off \nfrom nature.\nAt the same time that mainstream medicine has created for \nitself an oppressively-enforced monopoly over medical treatments, it has brought \nAmerica to the brink of bankruptcy while delivering only pain, suffering and \npharmaceutical addiction to the masses. Mainstream medicine says poison is \nmedicine