15 Ways the Auto Industry Would Change if it Operated Like Drug Companies

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If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice

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1. Your average car would cost $4.5 million, representing a 30,000% markup over

cost, which is typical for prescription drugs. Automakers would justify this

price by saying they needed the money to fund research and development, but in

reality, most of their research would be funded by taxpayer dollars through

government grants and university research centers.

2. That exact same car could be purchased in Mexico or Canada for under $5,000.

3. Automakers would lobby Congress to outlaw or regulate alternative forms of

transportation such as bicycles and airplanes, forcing Americans to rely

exclusively on cars. Explanation: the drug industry works hard to discredit

alternative medicine, herbs and nutritional supplements, hoping to force

consumers to rely on drugs alone.

4. Cars with no safety systems (no seatbelts, no airbags, no crumple zones)

would be declared perfectly safe by federal regulators. Car companies, rather

than address this lack of safety features, would focus on publicizing the

dangers of riding bicycles. Explanation: the FDA currently approves deadly drugs

as " safe. " Meanwhile, drug companies ignore the dangers of their own drugs and,

instead, try to get people to believe that herbs or vitamins are dangerous.

5. The manufacturers of those cars with no safety systems would grow tired of

being sued by customers who were injured in their cars, and they would lobby

Congress to pass " legal reform " that would immunize all car companies against

class action lawsuits. Explanation: drug companies are currently trying to get

Congress to pass laws that would make it illegal for consumers to sue for

damages. This would shield them from the financial consequences of their

dangerous products that kill hundreds of thousands each year.

6. All auto imports would be banned, forcing consumers to buy only U.S.

manufactured cars. And if you bought a Toyota and drove it to the U.S., you

might be arrested or searched. Explanation: the FDA works hard to maintain a

U.S. monopoly on all prescription drug sales. The agency once famously conducted

a " drug raid " search of a bus load of senior citizens returning from Canada who

had purchased nothing more than prescription medications.

7. Car companies would heavily publicize the release of new car models each

year, but in reality, the new models would essentially be " me-too " cars with no

real improvements over those made in the 1970's. Explanation: most prescription

drugs, even though they are touted as " breakthrough " drugs, are little more than

me-too drugs that do nothing different than older, off-patent drugs.

8. Car crash dummy tests that produced fatalities and other disturbing data

would be censored by the auto industry, never to see the light of day. Any

safety scientist who produced such results would be blackballed from ever

conducting crash tests again. Explanation: drug companies routinely bury

clinical study results that show the dangers of their drugs. They specifically

design studies in a way that exaggerates benefits and minimizes risks.

Researchers who don't " play ball " and help distort these drug trial results are

blackballed and will never find work in the industry again.

9. Car dealers would be visited by hoards of automobile sales reps promising

bribes, first-class vacations, free food and free cars as long as those car

dealers would push the right products onto consumers. Explanation: drug

companies spend billions each year on handouts to physicians, including outright

bribes, fully-paid vacations to exotic resorts (disguised as " Continuing Medical

Education " programs), free drug samples, and a never-ending supply of free

lunches and other food items.

10. Driver's education programs would be cancelled nationwide. Instead of

teaching people how to avoid accidents or repair damaged cars, automakers would

encourage people to keep buying new cars. Explanation: organized medicine

doesn't teach healthy safety or disease prevention. Instead, the entire system

is designed around waiting for people to get sick, then treating them with

expensive drugs, surgeries and other medical procedures. The system actually

encourages chronic illness by neglecting to teach prevention.

11. Companies would make up new reasons why you need more automobiles, hoping to

convince you to buy a dozen or more. They might say you need one car to make you

feel happy, another for basic transportation, a third to match the color of your

house, and so on. Explanation: drug companies frequently invent new, fictitious

diseases, and then try to sell you drugs to treat those made-up afflictions.

Examples include ADHD, FSD (female sexual dysfunction), General Anxiety

Disorder, and other made-up diseases that have no purpose other than selling

drugs. Essentially, Big Pharma wants to define everyone as diseased in some way,

and then convince people they need a lifetime of prescription drugs to " manage "

those diseases. From the moment you're born, the drug companies say, you're

already diseased.

12. Car advertising would show happy, healthy people driving down country

highways with the wind blowing through their hair. But once you get the car, you

find out it breaks all the time, it doesn't perform as promised, and after a

couple of years, it won't even start anymore. Explanation: prescription drugs

are advertised with images of happy, healthy, youthful, energetic people. But

the reality is that once you start taking prescription drugs, the health of your

entire body and nervous system (brain included) starts to go downhill. People

who take lots of prescription drugs are nearly always extremely unhealthy, with

obvious disease physiology and muddled cognitive function.

13. Cars would be hyped to buyers with fancy, full-color brochures touting all

the benefits of the vehicle. But federally-mandated warnings about car safety

problems would be printed in 6-point type on a tiny label hidden under the

driver's seat. Explanation: drug companies are required by the FDA to print

safety warnings on certain product labels and advertisements, but these warnings

are almost always presented in an impossible-to-read format and are, therefore,

routinely ignored by doctors and patients alike.

14. Driving certain cars would have unexpected side effects. Driving one car,

for example, would make you extremely aggressive and violent... perhaps even

suicidal. Driving another car might make all your muscles hurt. And a third car

might make you feel an instant loss of sexual drive. Explanation: prescription

drugs always have unintended side effects. Antidepressant drugs cause violent

behavior and suicides. Statin drugs can cause severe muscle pain

(rhabdomyolysis) and loss of cognitive function. They also block the production

of cholesterol, the precursor to sex hormones.

..... and finally ...

15. Cars would be sold to you with high-priced features like a sunroof, air

conditioning, 6-CD changer, navigation system and other items, but upon

delivery, you would find none of the features you paid for. The car would be

completely different from the one you thought you bought. Explanation: drugs are

sold to patients with hyped-up promises of multiple health benefits. But once

people start taking the drugs, they find the benefits were exaggerated. In other

words, the drug they end up taking is nothing like the drug they thought they

purchased -- the drug advertised with all the features and benefits on TV.

This list was authored by Mike , the Health Ranger. To see more

list-oriented commentary on organized medicine and the drug industry, check out:

The top ten reasons why the U.S. needs more pharmaceutical companies

The top ten things we'd see if the FDA were put in charge of the criminal

justice system

The top ten things you'd be able to do if you didn't live under a system of

health oppression masquerading as modern medicine

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

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health.

Unfortunately, this parody does not only apply to the pharmaceutical industry.

The obscene business practices of companies that sell dangerous chemicals in the

form of drugs, processed foods, and toxic products, coupled with the

industry-friendly laws of a bought-and-paid-for Congress, have slowly evolved

into a deadly system that would be clearly insane if applied to any other aspect

of life.

When it comes to protecting your health from deadly chemicals, neither the

government nor the industries that sell the dangerous products have your best

interests foremost in their minds. Here are a few more analogies showing how

deranged the system currently is:

If the movie industry were run like the food industry, any film critic who wrote

a negative review would be sued under the terms of " movie disparagement laws "

passed by a heavily lobbied Congress. The movie producers might not win the

case, but the critics would be bankrupted by legal fees.

If restaurants were regulated like the chemical industry, then restaurant owners

would perform their own health inspections on a voluntary basis. Only the very

largest chain restaurants would even do that.

If the police operated like the EPA, they would only arrest people for five very

specific types of crime, like murder with a blunt instrument committed on a

Tuesday. They would ignore all of the others.

Usually, they wouldn't even bother to investigate.

If the school system were run like the FDA, students would test themselves at

home and then simply tell the teachers how they did. The school system would

depend on fees paid by the students' parents, so they would pass nearly

everyone. Of course, only wealthy families could afford the fees -- poorer

students would be unable to get a high school diploma at all, and would be

barred from most jobs.

Your safety from dangerous chemicals is clearly largely in your own hands. Play

it safe and minimize your exposure to them:

Rather than becoming dependent on drugs, maintain your health with proper

nutrition and exercise.

Buy organic, prepare your own food as much as possible, and avoid fast food at

all costs.

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Ford's going to fix their problems with generics. They're firing

everyone but 50 workers who will change the decals on KIA's. :0

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