Fucking PUH-LEEZE! If I have to see another plaque psoriasis ad during my dinner time viewing of Love After Lockup, I’m gonna blow chunks
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we just had a no kings protests.
srsly wtf bernie
it's unbelievable that the us has straight up drug ads to consumers
At least we're not the only one! Iirc new Zealand does/did as well
world most overpriced drugs, and ads.
in most of the world that would be a ridiculously sci fi dystopia that no one would think is possible
Don't forget the U.S. taxpayers subsidize a huge chunk of pharmaceutical R&D only to get fucked and have to pay again for that R&D in the final price.
Great start.
Advertising in general should be illegal.
But but how will companies convince you their shity quality products is what everyone is buying??
Yeah, how will I know what drug of the week to demand my doctor prescribe to me?
"Ask your doctor if Phuckettal is right for you today!"
No. The doctor should be telling me what I need; not me telling them what I want. It's not a fucking candy store. Not only do I hate the ads, I hate not knowing with certainty if I am being prescribed something because I need it or if the pharma company that makes the drug simply pays the doctor to prescribe it. 😬
Sounds complicated. What if we just banned all ads?
That would take away a major advantage rich people have over us, so you'd better believe the useful idiots among us will not support it.
Even if this doesn't pass, get rid of the fucking jardiance musical commercials.
My man.
It fucking sucks that he is kneecapped by every other politician and is rendered mostly to just a voice.
Disgusting isn't it? I firmly believe that if Bernie had become president in 2016 and or 2020, Trump's name would be nothing more than board game worthy. The Democratic party gave us trump.
There was a time when ads for both pharmaceuticals and lawyers were both illegal. Considering how many of each I see every day, it makes me wonder how they filled their ad schedules in the olden days.
Laundry detergent and other household cleaners targeting stay-at-home wives.
It's why daytime dramas are called Soap Operas.
I have barely watched non-streaming TV for probably a decade or more, but I believe that in Canada it is much more difficult to advertise pharmaceuticals or law services. I think they can do it, but there are a lot of restrictions.
Certainly when I'm ~~subjected~~ exposed to American TV, the number of pharmaceutical commercials is staggering.
I don't know about lawyers, but as far as I know, the only two countries that allow pharmaceuticals advertising are the United States and New Zealand.
Prescription drug ads are a global oddity to begin with. Last I heard, only the U.S. and New Zealand allow them.
If this is passed(lol), then it will put a lot of actors who specialize in pretending to garden out of work.
Good!
Everyone involved in advertising can get real jobs instead of being paid to psychologically manipulate us with fake smiles!
Not to mention the people who come up with all that cheesy music and lyrics that try to rhyme with the nonsensical words the industry uses for drug names.
Finally, some good fucking legislation
If we get pissed off enough as a country we can make this happen
Drug ads were only legalized in the 1990s. It was much better to not have to constantly see them.
1980s. Brought to you by Reagan.
“Fast-forward to the 1980s: while Ronald Reagan was telling Americans to "Just Say No," the feds cozied up to the pharmaceutical industry, and relaxed their legal restrictions. Direct-to-consumer marketing (DTCM), what you probably know as "drug commercials," was first given the seal of approval in the US in 1985.”
https://www.thrillist.com/health/nation/why-are-prescription-drug-advertisements-legal-in-america
"Drug commercials as you know them really only began in 1997, when constraints were further loosened, and new meds began to feature in television commercials. For its part, the FDA notes that no federal law has ever outlawed drug ads, justifying its progressively lax regulation."
The next paragraph explains why I mention the 1990sbecause before then you would have to have printed on screen the side effects.
How else will I know what drugs to tell me doctor I have to take for diseases I don’t have?
Viewers think those ads are aimed at them, but many of them are for such specific versions of a disease, that the viewership must be extremely tiny. They wouldn't spend that kind of money to reach such a miniscule audience.
The ads are really aimed at the doctors themselves. A doctor with a specific specialty may have several patients that the drug might help. That's whose attention they are trying to get.
Have you asked your doctor about Ozempic yet? Maybe you need to see a couple hundred more ads about it.
But then how will they try to defend exorbitant drug prices when they no longer have tens of millions of dollars of advertising expenditures and are still developing drugs largely via publicly funded research?
Think of how insanely expensive those ads are: Besides the exorbitant cost of running them multiple times a day on numerous expensive broadcast channels during every day part, there's the production costs.
Big casts, big crew, location shooting, lots of costumes, etc. Then there is the music. They tend to use great classic rock songs, which carry extremely heavy royalty rates. In addition, they usually change the arrangement, and even write new lyrics. Changing the lyrics costs a FORTUNE.
The costs for the ad before it even runs, is incredible. The marketing costs for the entire campaign must be enormous. No wonder prescription drug costs are so high.
Hey, those bonuses and stock buybacks aren’t going to pay for themselves!!!
My first thought was they meant trump when they said King. SMH.
LMFAO. Yeah that will totally pass. The billionaire class totally wants to nerf their biggest source of revenue.
It probably won't pass, but we should still be fighting back.
There goes the Golf channel
It’s good to have independents!
Yeah, democrats hate him because he's not beholden to the ruling class.
Fuck democrats and republicans.
But what will be shown during the nightly national news programs??
If they can't run same 12 medical ads every, fucking, day, whatever will they do?
If I never have to hear that idiotic Jardiance song again, I would be so happy.
Won’t anyone think of the media companies?
Great bill but feels like throwing a diet coke can's worth of water onto the worlds greasiest fire.
If it helps I’ll take it.
Water + grease fire = moar fire
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