Politics
The word politics covers a wide range of human experieces that reach from how to get agreement on what to have for supper, to how to best manage a world wide pandemic. Undestanding the politics helps explain how our disease care system eveolved and how it operates. This section lists some of the defining moments in the process of arriving where we are today iin terms of disease care.
The Flexner report
The funding of medical schools
The ban of "Snake oil sales"
Medical publishing
The imstitution of user fees.
The CDC ownereship of patents. and the funding therefrom
FDA funding from teh drug companies through user fees
Interchange of personell between the Gocernment agencies and the drug anc foos industries
The baning of sales of supplements and the work of the senator.
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Jerry W. Segers is not a doctor or other medical professional. He does not give medical advice. If you need medical advice please see a medical professional. There is nothing on these pages intended to treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The information presented here is from my own personal experience or gleaned from reading medical literature for over 50 years. If anyone chooses to follow any information on this website or e-mails, they do so at their own risk. Like all other sites on the Internet it is up to the reader alone to determine if sone piece of information is suitable for any purpose whatsoever. I hope you are entertained by what you find herin.