Mr. Obama You have Lost my Vote

Dear Mr. President,
You have lost my vote! Your promise to Big Pharma that they would not be required to negotiate prices for drugs that Medicare, Medicaid or a Public Option would pay dooms Health Care Reform. This rip off will inflate the cost of these programs without increasing care. This is Corpracratic pay back. Just like Senator Baucus.
Medicaid reductions of $300 million could have easily come from Big Pharma instead of care for those least able to pay will suffer for what will be denied
My hope is dashed as Big Pharma will feel no pain financially but many families and old people will continue to choose between Prescription Drugs and food or heat. Continuing to pay 70% more than other Nations do for Big Pharma products hurts all Americans. $2,000.00 to $4,000 more per person in “Medical Costs” contributes to Insurance Corporations being able to pay $23 million for a CEO. Obscene profits allow current stakeholders to spend $500 million to buy votes, media and Town Hall disruptors.
This is not really Health Care but Medical/Insurance/ Pharmaceuticals getting only as much Reform as stakeholders’ profits will allow. Just like the Clinton Reform it was only about who got to profit.
The root causes of many diseases are not looked for. The War on Cancer is a failure because the focus is not on building healthy bodies and sound minds. When I was told I had two years to live in 1987, I was referred to an Internist, a Neurologist, a Cardiologist and a Gynecologist but no one who looked at my whole body. I surrendered to God and asked for a Miracle.
Gerry Goh, M.D., 4th generation Acupuncturist, herbalist and FBI M.D. treated me and in 1993 he declared me brain tumor and cancer free. His treatment was not covered by my “Medical Insurance Plan.
In 1977 I was denied surgery by Group Health. A private surgeon spent two and a half hours doing surgery and I spent ten days in the hospital. I would have died from sepsis. Trained as a Registered Nurse I knew the risk and paid a very heavy price.
President Obama your choices of Michael Taylor at FDA/Monsanto and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, pro GMO/Monsanto insures that status quo pesticide use will destroy the health of millions and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to treat..
Mr. President you sold out. With a heavy heart and angst I quit as there is no hope.

Former Democratic Precinct Committeewoman; Delegate to Washington State Democratic Convention; Volunteer Democratic National Headquarters 1980 and fourth generation democrat. Democrats and Republicans, like you, are Corpracrats so I quit,
Theresa Marie K. Gandhi

250,000 percent mark-up on drug prices are Obscene!
As we have revealed in past issues of "Life Extension," a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries. In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America.
The information below speaks for itself.
Celebrex 100 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60 Percent markup: 21,712%;
Claritin 10 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71 Percent markup: 30,306%;
Norvasec 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14 Percent markup: 134,493%;
Prevacid 30 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01 Percent markup: 34,136%;
Prilosec 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97
Cost of general active ingredients $0.52 Percent markup: 69,417%;
Prozac 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $247.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11 Percent markup: 224,973%;
Tenormin 50 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13 Percent markup: 80,362%;
Vasotec 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20 Percent markup: 51,185%;
Xanax 1 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $136.79
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024 Percent markup: 569,958%; and
Zoloft 50 mg Consumer price: $206.87
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75 Percent markup: 11, 821% .
Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought everyone I knew should know about this. (...) Well we all know the drug companies make obscene profits but little did I know just how obscene they really are when it comes to ripping off an ever increasing number of sick people in the world.
August 8, 2009