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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Really hoping this gets off the ground in a big way. A lot of us have gone to great pains to keep this stuff out of our bodies. Would like to keep it that way!

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John Q Liberty's avatar

We very much need a 'shadow' medical system in this country. Medical practices are mostly owned by hospital systems, which are largely beholden to Medicaid, Medicare, and the ' health care' insurers, all of whom have powerful incentive not to irritate their state and federal overmasters - who, in turn, do the bidding of the pharmaceutical conglomerates.

The game for the patient is this: when I solicit advice from my doctor, I can never be sure who's calling the shots. The hospital administrator? The state medical authorities? The federal alphabet soup bureaucracy? The pharmaceutical companies? Trust, once shattered, is not easy to regain - especially with the doctor facing the omnipresent threat of having his job canceled.

The medical system has been irretrievably corrupted. That's the sad state of affairs right now.

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