A comprehensive study published in the Lancet1 shows that adult mortality in the United States is worse than many poor countries such as Chile, Tunisia, and Albania. There is only one reason for this: the excessive use of toxic drugs by Big Pharma and its legion of doctors who have a very poor understanding of the healthy function of the human body. Sure the US healthcare system has lots of high tech gadgetry and can perform complex surgeries better than anyone else. But when you get right down to the simple facts of can this drug-based system of health care produce real results the answering is a resounding NO.The research also shows that the United States has fallen significantly behind other countries in reducing deaths. In 1990, the United States ranked 34th in the world in female mortality and 41st in male mortality, but by 2010, it had dropped in the rankings to 49th for women and 45th for men. This puts it behind all of Western Europe.The healthcare debate in the United States is totally misguided. It should be on one thing and one thing only – the ability of treatments used to extend life and produce the result of health. Of course, it goes without saying that the majority of what Western medicine does, with close to a hundred billion dollars per year of useless drug sales, would fail to pass even the most rudimentary objective analysis of its actual results in terms of health produced. It is little wonder doctors are obsessed with numbers, as changing numbers is about all they can do. If the public held them accountable for actually keeping people alive and truly improving health the entire profession would be run out of town or made to walk the plank.