>Subject: Re: hygienic doctors
>From: [email protected] (David Wright)
>Date: 11/13/03 5:23 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <[email protected]>
>
>Gee, I hadn't realized homeopathy and (especially) chiropractic had
>disappeared. I must be imagining all those ads from chiropractors in
>my phone book.
>
> -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
You know as well as I that you cannot have a proper monopoly if you are not the
only choice that people have, especially a sick one. Go back to 1910 and you
will find out that the Carnegie/Rockefeller medical monopoly ran all the other
competition out of business ( 464 medical schools of various types) and then
gave the final 60 or so allopathic medical schools $10,000,000 each in 1910
dollars to get up and going. Every medical school offering an MD degree today
is an allopathic medical school. The last medical school offering a non
allopathic medical education in this country closed in 1909.
This does not mean that the other schools of medical thought are not
staging a comeback. Problem is that the monopoly has constructed a wall of
laws at the federal, state and local level to protect themselves. They have
the FDA to inforce their needs. And, most importantly, they control the
medical insurance industry, the money. Considering that they put up around
$600,000,000 and now have a monopoly that in the US alone brings in over
$1,500,000,000 yearly, I think the guys were absolute geniuses.
Dr. C.