The Medical Industrial Complex is indeed a monster (a very
dangerous and un-natural predator).

It only makes money if you are sick or afraid of becoming sick
and it is controlled by institutional and individual investors
who care about money above all things.

It only makes money if the treatment or preventive medicine involves
technology, which includes pharmaceuticals.

In order to make people afraid of becoming sick it spends enormous
amounts of money on advertising designed to convince them that
several falsehoods are instead facts:

1. That the human body is prone to disease.

If that were the case there wouldn't _be_ a human race. The
human body is obviously inherently healthy.

2. That aging automatically brings with it all sorts of diseasee
conditions including the loss of the senses.

Look around. There are old people all over the place who are
vigorously healthy and have keen senses. Talk to these people
and you will discover that they avoid the Medical Industrial
Complex like the plague and don't have TVs and thus avoid
their potent propaganda.

3. That only technological treatments and preventive medicine are
effective. They even go so far as to claim that depression is
caused only and directly by physical conditions, which is absurd.

They pretend to ignore the enormous body of evidence that
indicates that a person's state of mind is the most important
factor determining their overall health while making use of
that same knowledge to undermine people's health with the
above propaganda.

They also undermine people's health by using artificial drugs
rather than natural ones and constantly lobbying to have
all natural remedies and therapies banned.

Again, look around. Do you see the healthy people that the
MIC wants us to believe that techological medicine has
created? No. You see very unhealthy people who are spending
so much on disease care (to give health care a more accurate
label) that it is threatening our entire economy.

I remember being a kid in the 1950's. People were a LOT healthier
then. Almost no one had health insurance and they rarely went to
the doctor and rarely took drugs of any kind. The average person
could work hard all day long and enjoy it. Serious illnesses were
so rare that they were newsworthy and became the talk of the
town. Healthy old people died peacefully in their sleep after
playing with their great-grandchildren all day long.

Tom