re: Drug ads on television must end now. Some drugs have more side effects than cigarettes.

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Doesn’t make socialized medicine the de facto solution but our current system is untenable.

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Um... the solution to any problem anywhere NEVER EVER EVER starts with the word "socialized". "Socialized" anything is NEVER the answer.

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How about being a free country with less government control? Why should government limit ads for a legal product?

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I'm all about less govt, and less govt control.
But the job of the govt is to protect people. Not protect big companies. That's gotten twisted around where the govt protects big companies, from people.
It needs to be set right. This is just one small step in setting it right.

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You can't buy them over the counter like cigarettes. And, nobody who doesn't have ulcerative colitis is popping into their primary care doc and asking for that med. The ads are just made to get annoying patients with the particular condition to make demands of their docs. I'd bet 90% of doctors would prefer to see med advertising stopped.

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You're not wrong. And that's a great point.
But you can buy ibuprofen off the shelf, which can destroy organs, and increase chances of strokes. Too much aspirin can harm your stomach. Both of which has adverts all over the place.
But let's also look at how many millions these companies dump into advertising. Money that allows them to threaten channels with pulling that money, if said channel starts leaning the wrong way politically. Or doesn't lean a certain way politically.
Just an example... Elon Musk saying GFY to those same advertisers.

And not once did she advocate for NEJM to stop taking Pharma dollars.

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I'm all about less govt, and less govt control.
But the job of the govt is to protect people

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Well, what they do is make it extremely expensive and time consuming. I dont see a lot of protecting.

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Good ole progressive consumer protection.

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What's the alternative? The free market? Let's do a thought exercise about how life would be without consumer protection.

Lead was removed from gasoline due to consumer protection. Without that protection, companies would still make leaded gasoline because it's cheaper and creates more profits. Millions of people were already sick and dead when leaded gas was banned. This means millions of more dead people than we already have. For someone who constantly talks about needing immigration due to low birth rates, you should be able to see how this would be problematic.

Even if a company decided to make use of the free market and create unleaded, my use of that gas would not limit my exposure when leaded gas is still used due to how air works. We all get to live sick and die early so a handful of corporations can make money. Hooray for the free market!

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How about being a free country with less government control? Why should government limit ads for a legal product?

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I think the issue is that even though they are a legal product, it's not legal for the consumer to just go to the store/pharmacy and buy it. They can only obtain the product with a doctor's prescription. Thus, the advertisement should be irrelevant and really more in the nature of "go ask your doctor if he will give you this prescription."

The sad thing is many of these drugs were created first (by accident through failed clinical trials for other ailments), then conditions were "created" by pharmaceutical companies to encourage you to buy the medicine you probably otherwise didn't need.

Side note, what in the hell are they putting in medicine that somehow can specifically target your taint? There do not seem to be rare and serious infections of your arms, feet, ears, etc. Just the 1-2 cm area between the a-hole and nutsack/growler. That can't be just an accident, right?

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I would hope so, deer don't respond well to dry fires.

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True. They very often show that big puffy tail, like a middle finger, as they prance off egotistically, if they hear the click!

And then they plan to wait and ambush you when you leave, and just completely ruin your car.

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I'm all about less govt, and less govt control.
But the job of the govt is to protect people


Well, what they do is make it extremely expensive and time consuming. I dont see a lot of protecting.

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This is true. It's an issue with the litigation system. There's a lot of issues there, that don't favor the people in that scenario.
Ok, not to open the whole "jab" can of worms... Let's avoid that. But some pharma, like for example... Pfizer, have enjoyed gov granted civil immunity. Even before COVID.
I may not be remembering it properly, but I remember a case where one of their meds had a huge detrimental effect on a large group of children. And the parents couldn't sue because of civil immunity.

O-o-o-ozempic.