By Neenah Payne

How Big Ag/Big Pharma Keep America Sick explains that American medicine excels in treating trauma. So, it you get hit by a car, are in a fire, fall off a ladder, or are shot, you can expect help at a hospital. However, American medicine is failing in chronic disease.

Americans spend an average of $12,555 per person on health care annually according to the Peterson-KFF Health Care Tracker. By comparison, typical health care spending across other developed nations is about $6,651, However, Americans are the sickest, fattest, unhealthiest population. The US ranks high in infant mortality and ranks low in life expectancy compared to other industrialized nations. This shows that the American approach to healthcare is not working.

Del Bigtree is the host of The Highwire which airs online Thursdays from 2-4 PM ET. He was an Emmy Award-winning producer of the TV show The Doctors which he left in 2016 to make the film Vaxxed: From Coverup To Catastrophe which went viral. The courageous British doctor Andrew Wakefield who directed the film lost his medical license for merely suggesting that there might be a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.