Multidrug pills were anathema not too many years ago because someone with knowledge (a rare commodity amongst today's health professionals) regognized that there can be significant differences between doses and drugs required to treat a multitude of individuals, and a single pill cannot meet the challenge. Now we have a regression of intelligent and reasonable thinking to come up with a "Polypill" that will do minimal or nothing for patients but will continue to enrich the pharmaceutical industry, the industry which by default now educates (brainwashes) the medical professions practitioners. American doctors no longer are taught how to treat "causes" (too demanding of precious time!), they only know how to focus on "symptoms", because the pharmaceutical industry wants it this way. After all, if causes can be prevented or corrected, there will be much less need for pharmaceuticals that just treat the symptoms. American medicine is a high-tech, costly, low efficiency, wrongly motivated and declining profession. It has been said that no great civilization can be conquered from the outside until it has destroyed itself from within. The same is true of the once-great American medicine profession.