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I have been a doctor for 50 years. I am a just retired Prof of Medicine from UCLA. I have created a non-profit 501c3 corporation named No More Medicines, Inc. We have a website, nomoremedicines.com. Our mission is to reveal and explain the reasons for rising healthcare costs so that some sort of realistic corrective actions can be taken. (Yes Virginia, there is an explanation.)
When I started in Medicine there were few meds for high blood pressure and cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes was called "maturity onset diabetes" because we only saw it in patients >50 years old. The American diet and Big Pharma have changed all that. When I started in Medicine, McDonalds was new, a hamburger was 25 cents and you could hold it in one hand. Fries were 15 cents. “Supersize Me” had not been invented yet. Most people still ate “slow” food. You could only eat Pizza if/when you visited Rome.

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