To help you understand how the system works, you have to understand you have to do a lot of pr and spend a lot of money in the mass media, books etc convincing the public there is an ailment their "chemical" prevents fixes or lessens, and it is absolutely essential for you to take to Fix, or maintain your health. The following is an example of how it works and what you have been caught up in. A year's supply of Claritin In 2001 = about $1,066. Two doctor prescriptions (office visits) necessary made total $1150 plus Drug Patent About To Run Out Claritin 2002 approved for Over The Counter sale, price dropped immediately to about a buck a tablet, ($365) no doctor visit costs involved.

Now a year's supply of OTC Generic version of Claritin, for $30 area at Walmart, even local dollar stores. It would appear that it likely costs under $10 to produce, so there was a $1,056 profit margin for the drug industry when sold the doctor route plus good old doc took in a $100 or more simply to write two annual prescriptions. Same drug, same results. Now you understand how they can invest millions getting "the media medicine system" to promote some "cure" concept etc that is all smoke and mirrors. All of that ad and pr money comes right out of your pocket and convinces you that your doctor can supply your health needs writing prescriptions for their chemicals. Your doctor likes steady income simply writing 2 renewal annually prescriptions for this sort of stuff and your druggist loves it, with this kind of margin big pharmaceutical, spends millions controlling the ad media, and makes a big political donation to keep the system intact and declares a big dividend and the stock rises....your retirement fund is in good shape and you are convinced it is a great system, and everybody is happy.......

......who are we to complain....