It is no secret to anyone in the natural health community that the pharmaceutical industry has a stronghold on mainstream medicine in the United States, costing society tens of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of human lives every single year. But if you thought things were bad here, consider the current state of affairs in communist China, where nearly half of all health care expenditures are spent on drugs, many of which are not even necessary for those to whom they are being prescribed.

While about 10 percent of America's healthcare budget is spent on pharmaceuticals, China spends up to five times this amount, thanks to extreme drug industry corruption.