{"id":12569,"date":"2009-06-24T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/24\/the-medical-industrial-complex\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:20:10","slug":"the-medical-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/24\/the-medical-industrial-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medical-Industrial Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">No doubt you have heard of ADD. Recently I learned of a new medical condition known as ADHD: attention deficit hyperactive disorder.<\/p>\n<p>What could be called the <em>medical-industrial complex<\/em> is a curious alliance of soft-headed liberals eager to invent diseases and celebrate their &#39;victims&#39; and money-grubbing corporate types out to turn a quick buck. Liberals invent the diseases and syndromes, while the big pharmaceutical companies supply the drugs for their alleviation. Compliant shrinks and medicos write the&#0160;prescriptions and serve as go-betweens while Big Government programs divert tax dollars from legitimate uses to enrich the doctors and drug companies.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt you have heard of ADD. Recently I learned of a new medical condition known as ADHD: attention deficit hyperactive disorder. What could be called the medical-industrial complex is a curious alliance of soft-headed liberals eager to invent diseases and celebrate their &#39;victims&#39; and money-grubbing corporate types out to turn a quick buck. Liberals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/24\/the-medical-industrial-complex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Medical-Industrial Complex&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}