My contention is that there are all-natural cures for virtually every disease and ailment. These cures are being suppressed and hidden from you by the pharmaceutical industry, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Federal Trade Commission, as well as other groups. The question that arises most often when I make these statements is, "What is the motive for such a thing to occur?" The answer is simple: money and power. Most people have no idea just how powerful a motivating force money and power can he. Money does indeed make the world go round. The love of money, which is the definition of greed, is in fact the root of all evil. Think about some obvious facts. Ninety percent of all people in prison today are there because of a money-related crime. Interesting, isn't it? Money is such a powerful force people will risk going to jail for it. Seventy-five percent of all murders are committed for money. People's insatiable desire to have money actually drives them to kill another human being!

All publicly traded corporations have a legal responsibility to increase profits, it's the law! Think about it: With rare exception, every single business has one objective—to make more profits. The only way companies make more profits is by producing their product at the lowest possible cost, selling it at the highest possible selling as much as they can. Every decision a company makes is to increase profits.
Companies, however, are run by people. People have two motivations—first, to make more money for themselves personally; and, second, to increase their power, prestige, or influence. Therefore, the individuals who run companies will always make decisions based on what can personally enrich themselves. Very few individuals are concerned about the good of mankind, the environment, or achieving some spiritual nirvana To varying degrees, decisions are based on the answer to the question, "What's in it for me?"

In business, is everything always about the money? Yes. Throughout the history of big business, planned obsolescence has been standard operating procedure. This is when a product is manufactured in such a way so that it will wear out or need to be replaced. The product could have been made to last a very long time; but in order for the company to ensure future profits, it knowingly manufactured an item that was inherently flawed. Thus it planned for the product's obsolescence, all in the name of profit.

In today's business environment, companies only do things that either increase sales, decrease the cost of the product, or guarantee a higher price for the product. A simplified example of this can be seen with restaurants that are located in airports. The restaurant has a monopoly, there is no competition. Since the restaurant knows it is not relying on repeat business, it does not have to give good-quality food, good service, or a fair price. Have you ever gotten a great meal with great service at a great price at an airport restaurant? I sure haven't. Why? Because they don't have to. Giving good service and a good product at a fair price will not increase profit at an airport restaurant because they are not relying on repeat customers. Another example is outsourcing. Why are hundreds of companies laying off millions of American workers and outsourcing this work to people in other countries? Because it's cheaper! Remember, the corporate officers and directors of publicly traded companies have a legal responsibility to increase profits. If they don't, they will lose their jobs. Big business will always make decisions based on profit, not what is good for the employees, what is good for the customer, what is good for the environment, what is good for society, or what is good for mankind.

Let's look at the drug industry. Let's say you sell insulin to diabetics. Would you be happy if someone discovered an herb that when taken cured a person's diabetes so that they never needed insulin again? Of course not. You would be out of business. As an interesting note, there is such a cure for diabetes. The person who discovered it was offered over $30 million by a major pharmaceutical company not to market it! It's all about the money.

Health care, defined as the treatment, prevention, and diagnosis of disease, is the most profitable industry in the world. As long as people are sick, billions and billions of dollars in profit are made every year. Think about it. There are enormous amounts of money to be made as long as people stay sick. A healthy person, on the other hand, doesn't spend any money on the health-care industry. A healthy person does not need to buy drugs, does not get medical treatment, and is a liability to the corporations involved in health care. If every person was healthy and disease-free, the drug companies and virtually the entire health-care industry would be out of business. To the drug companies and virtually all the corporations involved in health care, you are nothing more than a customer. As long as you are sick you are potentially a good customer. There is no financial incentive for the health-care industry in having people live disease-free. There is no financial incentive to prevent or cure disease. Rather, the entire health-care industry is driven by one overshadowing motive: to make money! The entire health-care industry is run by individual people in the form of officers and directors of the publicly traded corporations that make up the industry. These people are, with rare exception, some of the most ruthless, wealthiest, and greediest people on the planet. Is this true? Let's examine a fictitious— or maybe not so fictitious—scenario.

Imagine there is a scientist working in a lab somewhere. He makes a breakthrough discovery: A small plant is found in the Amazon that, when made into a tea and consumed, eliminates all cancer in the body within one week. Imagine this researcher proclaiming that he has given this tea to one thousand cancer patients and that every single one of them, within one week and without having undergone surgery, was found to have absolutely no cancer in their body. Eureka! A cure for cancer! A simple, inexpensive, all-natural cure with no side effects. Just a simple plant that you make into a tea and drink. It has absolutely no side effects at all. It's pure, all-natural, and costs just pennies.
Imagine this scientist announcing his discovery to the world. Certainly he would win a Nobel Prize. Certainly the world medical person who lives with the fear of getting cancer could now know that they could simply drink a few cups of this tea, which costs them only a few pennies, and they could avoid ever getting cancer. My, my, the world would be a better place.

Unfortunately, you'll never hear this story. Not because the story is not true, but because if this simple herbal tea which cures all cancer was allowed to be sold, there would be no need for the American Cancer Society. There would be no need for any of the drug companies that are manufacturing and selling cancer drugs. There would be no need for any additional cancer research funding. Cancer clinics around the world would close, hundreds of thousands of people would be put out of work, entire industries would shut down overnight and billions and billions and billions of dollars in profit would no longer be funneling in to the kingpins who control the cancer industry.

So when this person makes this discovery, what happens? In some eases these people simply vanished. In other cases these people were given hundreds of millions of dollars for their research. In still other cases the federal government raided these researchers' offices, confiscated the data, and jailed the researchers for practicing medicine without a license Is this fantasy or is this the truth? Well, the health-care industry has a dirty little secret, and I am blowing the whistle on it.

The conversations I've heard, the meetings I have attended, the papers that I've read, and the inside information that I have received about the health-care fraud going on in this world has made me mad as hell—and I'm not going to take it anymore. I've been dubbed "the Whistleblower" because I am blowing the whistle on the most profitable industry in the world: health care. I'm exposing the lies, the frauds, and the scams. I'm letting the cat out of the bag. Like other industries, once the truth is made known, things begin to change.

Is it true that the health-care industry is holding back natural, inexpensive cures for disease and illness? Could it be true that the only motivation in health care is profits? Let's just look at recent history.
We've all heard the stories of the inventors who had carburetors that would make automobiles run a thousand miles to a gallon of gasoline. We've heard that the automobile industry paid off those inventors with millions of dollars to secure the patents and then buried those patents and never used that technology. Why? Because it would cost the automotive industry billions of dollars in profits.

We all know the story of how the big three automobile manufacturers purchased the Redline Train System in California, only to dismantle it to make sure that more automobiles were sold. Most people don't know that a lawsuit was filed regarding this obvious antitrust issue and the "big three" were found guilty! Corruption runs deep. In this case it was evidenced by the judge awarding the plaintiffs an insulting $1 in damages! That's right, just $1! The big three automakers obviously paid off the right people to make sure that there were no consequences to their illegal actions.

Most recently, many of you have seen the movie The Insider or read the book about how for years the tobacco industry lied about their knowledge that the ingredients in cigarettes were highly addictive. Finally, an insider blew the whistle and told the truth. He exposed, finally, what we all assumed was true, that the research was conclusive, cigarettes are addictive, and that the manufacturers of cigarettes knew this for years and years and years but lied before Congress and said that they "have no knowledge" or "credible scientific evidence" that cigarettes are addictive. It was a flat-out lie. Why did they lie? Money. It's all about the money!

I happen to be a capitalist and an entrepreneur. Throughout my life I have been motivated to make money. Money itself is not bad. Making money and profits is not bad. It becomes bad when it becomes greed. Making money becomes very bad when you "love money." Making money and making profits is very bad when you hurt your employees, lie and deceive your customers, destroy the environment, exploit workers, illegally drive competitors out of business, and purposely sell inferior products and services. When you put money above everything else, that is when making money is a problem. Money should be used and people loved. The problem is that money is loved and people used!

We have heard the phrase, "The love of money is the root of all evil." The more multimillionaires I talk to, the more billionaires I talk to, the more Wall Street insiders I talk to, the more CEOs of major corporations I talk to, the more big business corporate directors I talk to, the more politicians I talk to, the more I believe that the love of money is indeed the root of all evil. I can tell you from firsthand experience that the majority of officers and directors of major publicly traded corporations are greedy beyond belief and corrupt beyond belief! Making money becomes an addiction. Making more money becomes the all-consuming compulsive motivator of these people. Making money becomes the most important thing in these people's lives. Making money and doing whatever it takes to make more money becomes the chief motivation in virtually all their decisions and actions. If making more money means lying, stealing, defrauding, falsifying, or harming other people, it's okay. If making more money means breaking the laws, destroying the environment, or seeing other people suffer, it's okay. Don't believe me? Let me point out a few examples.

Did you know there are thousands and thousands of millionaires, multimillionaires, and billionaires in prisons all around the world? Why are they in prison? Because even with their millions, they had such greed that they were willing to break the law to make more money. You may think these people are the exceptions. Consider this: For every drug dealer that was caught and is in prison, there are probably one thousand drug dealers on the streets that were not caught! I can tell you firsthand that for every millionaire or corporate officer or director that is in prison for breaking the law out of greed, there are hundreds if not thousands of officers, directors, and wealthy stockholders who are defrauding the public motivated by personal greed. Do you know what the number one motive for murder is? Money! That's right, money. The love of money and greed are such strong motivators that they are the number one reason people kill other human beings. It most definitely is true: Greed, defined as the love of money, is indeed the root of all evil.

We see it on TV with Enron and WorldCom and Martha Stewart. Individuals who have tens of millions of dollars in their bank accounts and are so greedy they want more. They will lie and defraud, cheat and effectively steal money from shareholders and employees for their own personal gain. Their ethics have been thrown out the window. They've sold their soul to the devil. There are thousands of people in every aspect of business and government that commit illegal acts all because they want more money. It's always all about the money. Just watch reality TV! Do you know that the producers of most reality TV shows are hoping that the real people on these shows have their lives ruined on national television? The producers make money with great ratings. If a person is physically hurt or has an emotionally traumatizing event happen, the ratings soar and the producers make more money. The more "bad" that happens to the individual the more money is made. It's like feeding Christians to the lions. Why are people so happy when another person's life has been destroyed on national TV? Because when you are so interested in money, even voyeuristically, you stop caring about other people's lives.

I've been in the corporate boardrooms of major corporations all around the world. I've listened to these people talk. I've heard firsthand, so I know that what I am saying is true; and most important, I have been there myself. Greed motivated me to break the rules, and I spent two years in federal prison because of it. Believe me, I know firsthand what I am talking about. Why haven't you heard this before? Well, for decades what went on in the Mafia was a secret. No one even admitted that La Cosa Nostra existed. Finally, one person, Joe Velacci, came forward and blew the whistle on the inner workings of organized crime. Since that time, dozens of former mafiosi have come forward to share the secrets that went on behind closed doors. In a similar fashion, the inner workings of the tobacco industry have been shrouded in secrecy. Finally, a man with a conscience came forward at the risk of his own life to blow the whistle on the greed, lies, and deceit that was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Think about it. Where are weapons of mass destruction? They are in every package of cigarettes! Today, I am one of the first to come forward from the inside and tell you the truth about the people who run "big pharma." You may be under the illusion that drug companies have officers and directors whose sole passion in life is to prevent and cure disease for the benefit of mankind. But I am pulling back the curtain and exposing the great Oz for the fraud that he really is. You may hear the cry "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," but do not be deceived. The officers and directors of the big corporations that make up the health-care industry are not benevolent, wonderful people with compassion and a desire to rid the world of illness. When the curtain is pulled back and the true identities are revealed, we see outrageously wealthy people whose greed, insatiable desire to make more money, and contempt for humanity is startling and mind-blowing. If you'd had the chance to shake these people's hands and look into their eyes, you would no longer feel safe.

Just remember that health care is the most profitable industry in the world and as long as people are sick, people are making billions of dollars in profits.

The bottom line is this: The health-care industry has no incentive for curing disease. If the health-care industry cured disease they would all be out of business. Their focus, as unbelievable as it sounds, is to ensure more people get sick and more people need medical treatment. That ensures profits. It's all about the money! Hospitals, drug companies, and the entire health-care industry should really be called the "sick care" industry. This money machine does not make their profits by keeping people healthy but rather finding a sick person and then selling them their outrageously expensive drugs, surgical procedures, and other medical procedures. And they make over $1.3 trillion annually doing it. Folks, I've been in the boardrooms. I've listened to these people. I've heard CEOs of major pharmaceutical companies say things such as this: "I don't care how much liver damage this drug causes, get it approved by the FDA. Pay whoever you have to pay, get the lobbyists that you have to get, but just get this drug approved. Do it, and our stock price goes up threefold. We sell our stock and move on. And five years from now, when they find out about the liver damage, they'll take the drug off the market. But who cares, we'll have our money. Just do it." That is why I am mad as hell, and I am not going to take it anymore.