Dr. Mary Ruwart is a quiet heroine of the liberty movement. In addition to being author of one of the most widely cited books on liberty, she is also a pharmaceutical industry insider, and at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, she told exactly why prescription drugs (and health care generally) are expensive and difficult to access, and how many people have died because of it.
Some of my readers hate “Big Pharma” for various reasons, such as not putting lifesaving drugs on the market, charging too much for drugs thus keeping them out of the hands of many who need them, using patents, and more. If you’re one of these people, you need to pay close attention, because it’s likely that everything you know about this problem is wrong.
Ruwart draws on her experience working for a major pharmaceutical company to illustrate why lifesaving drugs never come to market, why drug companies patent their drugs, and why the drugs that do get to market are so expensive. Regular readers here should not be surprised to find out that government intervention, especially from the Food and Drug Administration, lies at the heart of the health care problem.
What surprised me, though, was Ruwart’s estimates of how many people that government regulation of the pharmaceutical industry has killed.
Ruwart’s book, Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression, explains with abundant examples what a libertarian world would look like and how it would solve virtually every societal problem, from the economy to the environment. I recommend that anyone actually interested in solving world problems read this book.
You can also purchase the report on which this talk was based from Dr. Ruwart’s web site, and receive a copy of Healing Our World for free.
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My Opinion
Mar 26, 2009
How Free Are We?
Right now (3/25/2009) I am watching this report about the kids being assassins for the cartels and can not help but notice the date on the tape is from 7-28-2006; which of course means that this is old news which is true. Another point that I would like to state is that they talk about Garcia being killed with his wife pregnant wife in the car. Not only do they fail to state that this happened in 2005 they also fail to state that Garcia was a high ranking member in the Mexican Mafia and was involved in the drug trade ) (start watching at 6:45).The truth is that this has been going on for a long time! So what is the advantage of bringing it up now and making a big deal about something that has been going on for years? As did many other people in school I read the book 1984 by George Orwell and realized, like everyone else did, that I would not want to live in that kind of world; but when I look at where we are today it brings up some unsettling similarities. I see people setting up cameras in their homes in the form of computers and phones that allow you to see the person you’re talking to. Do you really think that the government could not access those cameras and see into your homes? There is GPS being put into cars and cell phones which makes it easy to follow your every movement should the government choose to. Even while driving around in my car I see random video cameras set up around the city and also there are now cameras set up on the side of the highway that takes your picture and sends you a ticket if you are speeding. On the news they are saying Mexico may become a failed state but do not go into detail of what that means. It is a term is very broad and does not include details. The term “terrorists” is also being used to strike fear into people. Now I may wrong but I do see something that can very possibly occur in the near future and that is using the Mexican drug war to strike fear in American citizens in order to slowly strip away our rights to privacy and our freedom. I hear of making national ID cards and RFID chips will hold all of your personal information including finger prints and DNA data. I see us heading in the direction of 1984 and I think we need to stand up and look at what is really going on here. We need to stand united and not allow this to happen. It is your everyday, average people who are the foundation of this nation and without a stable foundation everything will fall. This is just my opinion on our current situation and I am practicing my right to freedom of speech. If you agree I encourage you to repost this in as many blogs and places possible and talk to family and friends about it. I am not saying I am right or wrong but just take my opinion into consideration with an open mind.
Patrick
Mar 26, 2009
Thx a lot for posting these LF videos. I’m gonna download each of the .flv’s, convert them to .mp3s, then listen to them on my Ipod!
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