You Are Paying for Your Medicine 3 Times: The Documented Fraud of Modern Healthcare
Most Americans believe high drug prices are the “cost of innovation.” They are wrong. It is a structural extraction system designed to make you pay for your own life three times over. This is not an opinion; it is a matter of public record.
1. The First Payment: Your Taxes (The Research Foundation)
Every year, the U.S. Government, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), invests billions of taxpayer dollars into medical research.
- The Fact: For 2024/2025, the NIH budget stands at approximately $48 – $50 Billion annually.
- The Proof: A landmark study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) analyzed all 210 new drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2016. Every single one of them (100%) was funded by the NIH—your money.
- Source: PNAS.org – “Contribution of NIH funding to new drug approvals 2010–2016”
2. The Second Payment: The Patent (The Legal Heist)
Under the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, private corporations are allowed to patent inventions that were discovered using Federal funds.
- The Result: Big Pharma takes the high-risk research you paid for, puts a “legal lock” (patent) on it, and claims exclusive ownership. They didn’t invent the biology; they just captured the legal right to rent it back to you.
- The Glitch: This is the ultimate “privatization of profits and socialization of risks.”
3. The Third Payment: The Market Price (The “Rental” Fee)
After paying for the R&D and giving away the patent, you go to the pharmacy and pay the highest prices on Earth.
- The Fact: Americans pay, on average, 2.5 times more for prescription drugs than other high-income nations.
- The Irony: You are paying a premium to a corporation that used your initial tax investment to build its monopoly.
- Source: RAND Corporation – “International Prescription Drug Price Comparisons”
🏥 The P.C.M. Solution: Healthcare as a Vertical Necessity
In the P.C.M. (Public Cash Money) architecture, Healthcare is not a “cost” to be squeezed—it is a Vertical Investment in the nation’s survival.
- Direct Sovereign Funding: Under a P.C.M. system, the State issues debt-free value directly to public research centers. We stop “renting” money at interest ($1.x) to find cures.
- The End of Patents on Public Cures: Since the funding is 100% public and debt-free, the resulting drugs remain in the Public Domain. No middleman, no 1000% markups, no “extortion fees.”
- Mutual Necessity (Pillar 1): Money flows toward real human needs (healing) rather than speculative bubbles.
Conclusion: Reclaim Your Health Sovereignty
You have already paid for the science. You shouldn’t have to “rent” the cure from a system that uses your taxes to build its own cage.
Either we reclaim our Monetary Sovereignty to fund our survival, or we continue to pay for the privilege of being a line item in a mathematical glitch.
$2+2=4. Period.
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