Big Pharma has paid billions of dollars in criminal and civil settlements over the years because of marketing fraud that cost taxpayers billions and left others with debilitating medical conditions.
by Michelle Llamas
Greanville Post | July 26, 2019
ABOVE: Jardiance DTC ad, considered by many as one of the most annoying. Like most commercials, Big Pharma ads are intrusive and mendacious, and they make people look stupid, but with their constant reminders about our health vulnerabilities, they also depress our quality of life. Who needs 24/7 reminders about a multitude of diseases lying in wait to ambush us?
“[T]his advertising promotes only the most expensive products, it drives prescription costs up and also encourages the ‘medicalization’ of American life — the sense that pills are needed for most everyday problems that people notice, and many that they don’t.” —Jerry Avorn, New York Times
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Excellent article but too long. I couldn’t finish it but am happy you directed me to that site.
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Indeed, it is too long, katherine. Part of the reason I reposted the article was to keep it on file so I can refer to it in future.
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I’m keeping it on file, too, because you probably know this is a subject dear to my heart–and about which I write frequently–and the article does have good information.
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They put those stupid commercials up because, they get tax write-offs for them. No one can afford those drugs. The drugs have to be prescribed. The pceu industry is heavily subsidized by a dwindling, stupid american Taxpayer and, Patient base. It is collapsing on itself, like all the other phony, parasitic business models, in America.
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My dream is to see the pharmaceutical industry nationalized, Gloria – as far as I can see, that’s the only solution.
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