The good news about getting a positive rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis is that this is a treatable condition that sometimes even goes into remission. The bad news is that you are going to wish you were dead in trying to pay for that treatment. The cost of health care has skyrocketed while people's wages have not. So, even though treatments (if not an actual rheumatoid arthritis cure) is available, if you can’t afford it, tough luck.

Rise In Methamphetamine Deaths

Faced with the rising costs of healthcare, food and fuel, many people in severe pain come to the conclusion that they can make their own rheumatoid arthritis cures from street drugs. Patients are not only looking for a rheumatoid arthritis cure, they are also looking for migraine cures, back pain cures and even cancer pain cures. However, the cure is often worse than the affliction.

America has seen a dramatic rise in deaths from overdoses due to methamphetamine (crystal meth). This drug is now considered earlier than crack cocaine or heroin. The contributions to the overdose deaths are not entirely the fault of thrill-seeking youths or addicts trying to break one addiction by going onto another drug. They are because people are self-medicating.

Big Pharmacies Companies Are Sick

Until people refuse to pay an arm and a leg for a rheumatoid arthritis cure for their arms and legs, drug makers have absolutely no incentive to lower the costs of their medications. These companies justify the costs of their products by claiming that they have to cover the cost of advertising – and then launch the most expensive ad campaigns in pharmaceutical history.

There is always a blogger or nay-sayer who firmly believes that a rheumatoid arthritis cure exists – but is being suppressed in order to sell more arthritis pain medications. There is absolutely no proof to back this theory up. But arthritis medications do make a lot of money. It is thought that Celebrex makes on average $3 billion (US) per year (according to the New York Times).

Congress has already taken Big Oil to task for price gauging. It's time that Congress look at Big Pharmacies and take them to task for price gauging. Oil is a luxury in the sense that we really do not need it in order to survive. But medicine and a rheumatoid arthritis cure we do need in order to survive. We put pushers of illegal drugs like crystal meth into fail – we should do the same to Big Pharma.