The Money is in the Medicine

Read the passage below. It is a fictitious editorial piece that could have been published in a popular online news source. Then answer the questions below:
Evaluating Claims for Truth, Bias, Error, or Falsity
1. What is the claim Evaluate the claim. Is it true or a claim without reason
2. Is the author an expert or an authority Why or why not
3. Is the source of the claim credible Why or why not
4. How credible is the evidence used to support the claim
Your response should be one-two pages in length and follow these guidelines:
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Correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Use class text terms and concepts
The Money is in the Medicine, Not the Cure
By Jerry Spencer, Esq. (Fictitious author)
I must first disclose that I dont practice medicine nor do I work in the healthcare finance field. Yet there is enough information out there to plainly see that health care companies dont want you to be cured. They want to keep you hooked on their medicine. They are the modern day drug dealers who hide behind fancy degrees and white coatsbut they can reveal who their supplier is, and his name is Big Pharma.
There are more deaths due to prescription pain killer overdoses annually than heroin and cocaine combined. Why doesnt the government declare a War on Opiates Simplethere are 15 pharmaceutical lobbyists for every one person on Capitol Hill. The Pharmaceutical Industry has been the most profitable industry in the history of the world.
Pain clinics in Florida commonly prescribe 200 Oxycontin pills based solely upon the patient paying 300 dollars and saying that they are in pain. In fact, 80 percent of the painkillers in the country originate from Florida. Why doesnt the Sunshine State enforce regulation As the Wu-Tang Clan stated, Cash rules everything around me, CREAM get the money, dolla dolla bill yall. The money is in keeping addicts hooked on painkillers and not in the needed regulation that could easily bring the national abuse epidemic to a quick halt.
I was in the military and worked as an Intelligence Officer. I often worked with various government branches. One time, while working a joint operation with the CIA, one of their officers confided in me that the government has a cure for cancer, yet will not let it out because it would take away too many jobs and be too costly for Big Pharma. This is a classified secret and I could be killed just writing about it. Think about it: If there was a cure for cancer, all of the oncology centers, research universities, oncologists, and drugs to treat cancer would no longer be needed. Big Pharma is so profitable that they wont release a known cure because they put profits before people.
In the end, the government wants us to get hooked on drugs, spend all of our income at the pharmacy, and then we are only allowed to die in a bed if we have the expensive new government-mandated health insurance. They give us the leftovers and keep the truth to themselves. Remember-never ask a barber if you need a haircut, a psychologist if you have a mental disorder, or the doctor if a pill is bad for you.