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Senators Propose Ban on Drug Advertising to Consumers

The left wants a socialist state. Something that has never worked and always has that little elite group at the top with the money and the power telling the rest of us what they should have and can have.
 

Both can happen - the advertisement to raise awareness and then the steps a physician would take to determine suitability for their patient.
 
Big pharma doesnt really care about the advertising. It's all about buying off the media companies so they won't report anything critical about big pharma.

 
I would agree if the majority of people weren't wholly unqualified to have an opinion on the subject. And those that are - the people who bother to educate themselves and take an active part in managing their own healthcare - aren't getting their info from commercials.
 
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Banning drug ads is government censorship of legal speech. If a pharmaceutical company is selling a state-approved drug, it has every right to advertise it. As consumers we deserve access to information - not just what mommy government approves of. A ban treats adults like children and you can bet it won't stop with just drugs.
 
The advertising is done to bribe the media companies not to report anything negative about big pharma and thats why just about every country in the world doesn't allow it.

The ads are ridiculous and usually most people have no idea what products the commercials are for. What drug makes you dance, parade in the street or walk your dog in the park because that's what the last 3 commercials I saw showed?
 
The left wants a socialist state. Something that has never worked and always has that little elite group at the top with the money and the power telling the rest of us what they should have and can have.
Right wing bs
 
Right wing bs

No it isn't. Something like 3/4 of all democrats have a positive view of socialism and for the left it's 100%.

Hence it is not unreasonable to presume the left wants a socialist state.
 
Which makes its incentive to not improve health since that affects its profits.
 
I like it. Doctors should tell patients what medications would help, not patients telling their doctors they need something because they saw a slick add produced by the pharmecutical company that is trying to increase sales to maximize proffit not to help.patients.
 
I don't have a strong opinion on this. I suppose I support it but mainly because those advertisements are annoying and weirdly ironic as they show happy smiling people while the voice over lists 20 horrific maladies that are side effects of the drug. Then again, that part is somewhat entertaining and if the advertisements were banned, I'd lose that source of entertainment.

On the flip side I'm struggling to understand the legal basis for banning such advertising.
 
Yeah, seeing people frolicking on the beach while a voiceover lists the sometimes fatal side effects at 1.5x speed to a cheerful song has its entertainment value.
 
Then there are countries without a mommy government, where she says "you're on your own kiddos!" then you're fighting jerk baby daddy warlords coming to eat your lunch every day and take a dump on your front porch. Have you lived in that kind of environment to give us first hand information on the trade offs?
 

I see, so you're trading off a shitting warlord for a mommy government.
 
No it isn't. Something like 3/4 of all democrats have a positive view of socialism and for the left it's 100%.

Hence it is not unreasonable to presume the left wants a socialist state.
Elite group at the top blah blah blah the whole post was just right wing vague bs
And irrelevant
 
If there is a good reason to do this, it is NOT to decrease their expenditures so that they can pass the savings on to consumers. Have you looked at their profit margins of late, over the last two decades? If there is 2025 naivete award, congratulations, you have won it.
 
Ya might have a point re: censorship if I could control what commercials I'm subjected to but I can't.

As to information? The information content of most of these approaches 0.