Society was conditioned to believe that they needed a doctor to be healthy, rather than health being viewed as something each individual was empowered to seek for themselves.

Hundreds (or possibly thousands) of highly effective medical treatments for common diseases have been kept off the market to preserve the market for expensive but ineffective treatments that often require lifelong purchasing. For example, prior to the legislative battle to legalize acupuncture, I remember cases where Chinese immigrants were raided at gunpoint for practicing acupuncture in their own community without a license. 

If you weren't convinced before, what say you now? Liars, criminals and thieves......#ProsecuteFauci https://t.co/fr5Pip3R97

— Dr Sherri Tenpenny (@BusyDrT) August 15, 2023

Please read "How Corruption Dictates the Practice of Medicine," A Midwestern Doctor, April 16, 2022.

Society was conditioned to believe that they needed a doctor to be healthy, rather than health being viewed as something each individual was empowered to seek for themselves. This effectively created an unlimited demand for medical services, and as the above graphs show, an ever-growing need for medical spending.  Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich was the earliest work I was able to locate detailing this change and its consequences.

Things that genuinely improve public health (and thereby reduce medical expenses) are typically not allowed to emerge, while pointless initiatives that do not improve public health (water fluoridation or annual flu shots) are continually promoted. Likewise, basic health education is not taught to most people, and instead, health behaviors developed by corporate interests constitute the majority of “health education” (industry-funded nutrition textbooks for example are very common in college courses). In short, there are dozens of simple and obvious policy changes that many have independently identified which could rapidly improve public health and save a lot of money, but despite decades of campaigning to enact them, most have never been adopted.

Hundreds (or possibly thousands) of highly effective medical treatments for common diseases have been kept off the market to preserve the market for expensive but ineffective treatments that often require lifelong purchasing. For example, prior to the legislative battle to legalize acupuncture, I remember cases where Chinese immigrants were raided at gunpoint for practicing acupuncture in their own community without a license. 

For those interested, I’ve spent decades tracking those “forgotten cures” down, and while I have found many that for one reason or another were oversold and didn’t really work, I also found many others that were highly effective.

Every medical service or product is designed to encourage the consumption of more medical services or products.

A rigid hierarchy was created to support this monopoly.