Worried about wrong drug cartel

The drug cartel we in America should fear most is not from Columbia, but right here in the neighborhood drug store. They don't have to stand on the corner to sell their product or look out for the  cops.
 
The Food and Drug Administration, Congress and Homeland Security are all on their side. The American Medical Association, a powerful lot in themselves, trains and supplies the pushers. These drug cartels are so glutted with money that they buy up most of the television advertising time and ads in magazines, etc. Car dealers can hardly afford TV time slots anymore.
 
Washington, D.C., lobbyists (read bribers) spread the drug money around to our government people to make sure of their protection. Some of their products kill a few hundred "sick" people and they pull it off the market and settle the court action for a couple of hundred million.
 
Everybody is happy, including the lawyers who got about half of the settlement money. The drug company made maybe 10 billion in sales, so they kill a few and pay out a little. Why should they care? Is this what is known as blood money?
 
Reading about cholesterol, I learned that when cholesterol drugs first came out 300 was considered a good number. The drug companies got the AMA and FDA to lower the good number to 200. This alone boosted their sales by billions of dollars. Now the pusher wants to start testing kids 3 years and up for high cholesterol. How many billions will this increase their sales? What little good would it do, what great harm could it do?
 
Through TV ads, the drug companies are teaching us to be hypochondriacs to make sure we stay hooked on their drugs. Thousands of times a day, seven days a week you ask your doctor (pusher) about this or that drug. If I was not sick, I would be soon.
 
I think this practice should be stopped, but who is left to make a law against it? After the actor doctor tells us about all the possible bad side effects of the drug, I don't think I would want to take the drug anyway. What do you think? Ask your doctor.


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CARROLL RUSSELL
Yuma