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Online Video & DVD: Cancer Conquest - The Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine, by Burton Goldberg

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6/18/09: Dr. Ron Paul on Reforming Healthcare

 

6/16/09: Dr. Ron Paul on Reforming Healthcare

 

5/6/09: Dr. Ron Paul on Swin Flu Deaths and Vaccine Injuries

 

4/1/09: Would You Tolerate This Abuse? by William Faloon of Life Extension Foundation

Americans needlessly die while scientific discoveries that could save their lives remain trapped in bureaucratic red tape. There is a solution to this travesty. Allow free market innovation into the health care arena, and the development of new medical therapies will progress as rapidly as other technologies. Do you remember how expensive long distance phone calling used to be?

Back in 1980, archaic federal rules enabled the original AT&T to control national long distance dialing. You could recognize a long distance call by the hissing and crackling noise heard before the caller spoke. High-speed internet and mobile phone connections were not available.

In 1980, the Life Extension Foundation was in its infancy. Making long distance calls during the day was unaffordable to us. We waited until after 5:00 PM to make brief long distance calls. For calls that involved a lot of talk time, we scheduled these after 11:00 PM (or on weekends) when rates were at their lowest.

By 1982, we needed to install a toll-free "800" line, but feared the high cost. The 50-cent per minute rate caused concern that we might not be able to afford the monthly bill. Factoring in inflation, 50 cents in 1982 is equivalent to $1.16 today. That meant that if our 800 line was used just four hours a day, the monthly cost would be $6,960 in today's dollars.

Consumers Fought Back

There was quite a debate around 1980 as to whether consumers would benefit if other companies were allowed to compete in offering long distance services. AT&T heavily lobbied Congress arguing that all kinds of terrible problems would occur if it lost its monopoly.

AT&T pointed to its stellar record of scientific advances and threatened that if it could not charge its monopolistic rates, then further improvements in communications technology would be hindered. AT&T's track record for scientific prowess gave them a strong argument.

Fortunately, free market theory prevailed and AT&T was forced to relinquish its stranglehold over long distance calling in the United States. The transition was by no means smooth. The initial long distance competitors' services were clearly inferior to AT&T. We at Life Extension found it frustrating to initiate long distance calls over these discount carriers' networks. One newspaper columnist complained that he was tired of being solicited by these substandard discount carriers and wanted the government to reinstate AT&T's monopoly.

Why Do Americans Tolerate Pharmaceutical Monopolies?

What if the federal government outlawed long distance competition and returned to the monopolistic ways of the past? If this were to occur, I am certain that every elected politician (who voted for this) would be thrown out of office.

Yet the public today tolerates federal and state laws that enable pharmaceutical companies to conduct business as a virtual monopoly. The result is that Americans pay outlandish prices for mediocre drugs that are often laden with side effects. Continue reading...

 

3/31/09: Health Reform "Public Plan Option" Equals More Taxpayer Bailouts

• As President Obama lays out his budget over the next few weeks, no area will likely be more contentious than health care. At his press conference on March 24th, the President admitted, “the biggest driver of long-term deficits are the huge health care costs.”
  
  The President is right: long-term health care costs have the potential to cripple our economy. Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress, however, should take a deep breath and look around.
  
  The American people are saying enough to reckless bailouts, enough to spending our children’s and grandchildren's future, enough to creating new government spending programs that will, however well-intentioned, cost more than the rosy projections splashed across our televisions, computers, and newspapers. Read the full article online...

 

3/30/09: The End of Small Farms? What you should know about HR 875, HR 759, NAIS and Monsanto

 

3/16/09: Lose your property for growing food? Big Brother legislation could mean prosecution, fines up to $1 million

 

3/10/09: Obama OK's embryonic stem cell research; actions are immoral and ineffective

• Ethical Stem Cells Now Video/DVD
  This video shows ethical stem cell treatments (from adult stem cells and umbilical cord stem cells) being used to successfully treat many illnesses: ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Asthma, Autism, Blindness, Brain Damage, Cardiovascular Disease, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Fatigue, Congestive Heart Failure, Dementia, Lyme Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Paralysis, Parkinson's, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury.
  

2/20/09: Burtongoldberg.com e-newsletter

• New Facebook Group for Sharing Top Alternative Medicine Research and Promoting Healthcare Freedom
• Treatment of Primary Brain Tumors with Sehydrin (hydrazine sulfate)
• Healthcare Consultancy Service available for treating cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression and many other healthcare concerns

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