In 1907 John D. Rockefeller worked to expand his monopolistic power from oil to healthcare

9-11-20    Reps. Hal Rogers and Mary Bono proposed a bill in 2013 calling on the FDA to limit the prescription of opioids for “moderate” pain, only for it to die in Congress after industry-funded groups lobbied against it….While the $10 billion spent by the industry on marketing and advertisements catches the attention of most of the American public, it’s the $20 billion spent persuading doctors of a drug’s benefits which creates the greatest sway through the medical industry.  It starts early, as students train to become doctors….As doctors advance in their careers they are enticed with speaking fees to promote and prescribe pharmaceutical products.  These same companies also send individual representatives to hospitals to tout their latest drug. Approved drugs pushed in hospitals are always backed by randomized controlled trials and the latest research. Yet some of these studies fail to provide a totality of the drug’s effects….

  In 1907 John D. Rockefeller worked to expand his monopolistic power from oil to health care upon the discovery of “petrochemicals” used to make certain drugs.  During this time, holistic medicine was widely applied across the medical industry. Rockefeller donated over $100 million to various universities and hospitals to support centralization of the medical system, which led to stringent guidelines for medical professionals. While this was necessary in some sense for public safety and efficacy, holistic medicine soon fell out of the mainstream and drug companies bolstered by patent monopolies thrived.   http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IoGfkXtyItgJ:https://prospect.org/coronavirus/big-pharmas-game-of-control-covid-drug-treatment/&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IoGfkXtyItgJ:https://prospect.org/coronavirus/big-pharmas-game-of-control-covid-drug-treatment/&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0