It will restrict the profiteers and the profiteering, so I bet the "R" party will block it.

no change to what you see on the TV screen.

This sounds like it would be right up RFK, Jr’s Alley. I wonder if he’ll be weighing in on it.

Spoke about this often.

Most media makes the majority of their money from big Pharma- so they will not exactly mention any drug that is having reported side effects or has been recalled. Remember Viiox

“ The untold story of TV’s first prescription drug ad”

https://www.statnews.com/2015/12/11/untold-story-tvs-first-prescription-drug-ad/

“In 2008, approximately 27,000 Vioxx medical injury product-liability lawsuits were settled for $4.85 billion. In 2011, Merck paid over $1.6 billion to the Federal Government to resolve criminal charges and civil claims related to its alleged illegal promotion and marketing of Vioxx. Merck also agreed to settle a federal class action lawsuit filed by investors for $830 million in 2016. This global landmark victory set a precedent for MDLs to come.”
https://www.seegerweiss.com/drug-injury/vioxx-lawsuit/

Thanks. It’ll be interesting to see his position given his new role.

Bring back animated Duluth Trading commercials please.

Make them stop calling me about Medicare Advantage!

No more Medicare Advantage calls
No more Medicare Advantage texts & emails
No more Medicare Advantage TV ads

Call them “bug your doctor ads.” And that’s exactly what they are.

if you're allergic to it. First of all, if my doctor just prescribed it, and I had never taken it before, how the hell would I know if I was allergic or not? 2nd, if I had been on it previously and had a reaction to it, why would my primary care doctor re-subscribe it for me? 3. If I did know I was allergic to a med why the hell would I want to take it?

And ‘discontinue use in case of lower limb loss or the appearance of a severe, painful rash between your anus and genitals.’

And my culture shock was all the Pharma commercials! It’s wore out the mute button on my remote!

That allow direct-to-consumer Rx drug ads. The other? New Zealand. But, NZ has one thing we don’t: Universal healthcare, and that helps keep costs down overall.

US and New Zealand.

Basically the rest of the world says that if a drug needs to be prescribed, then a trained doctor should be involved in that decision.

start singing and dancing!
I really hate that.

But they don't have to tell me about it seventeen times a day in order for me to take the thing.

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Seriously, PLEASE take drug ads off TV! Some of these meds have side effects worse than the condition they're treating. "May cause lymphoma." WTF??!!

of some of these drugs are worse that the malady they claim they want to help cure.

just like Big PIll got the ads in the first place, the ethics of direct advertising to suggestible people with no way to go buy drugs off the shelf were horrendous, accounting for unnecessary doctor visits to obtain unnecessary prescription drugs, some of which might have caused real harm and even more medical costs.

I don't care if they do the right thing for the wrong reason, it's still the right thing.

...since this past March!
I watch a lot of Food Network. They run those ads constantly.

Pharma owns too many senators and house members.

and they know that.....

would not be the only losers, think of all that lost revenue in the Media...........

WASF

Heyyy! Download the app, link to your life savings account, and dream about that big yacht in your future!

that online gambling is going to contribute massively to the demise of the lower income individuals,
and most importantly an increase the corruption of professional and college sports by players and refs that throw games..............
The NFL and NHL have already seen their refs making unbelievably bad calls or non-calls, throwing the outcome of games.
Both the NFL and NHL have fired many refs already, but keeping it quiet and out of the main stream news for obvious reasons....

Back in 96? 97? the NHL had to fire their TOP FIVE REFS, for fixing games in the playoffs, leading up to the Stanley Cup that year..........

We get to pay more in the US because they get away with ripping us off. Capitalism pure and simple.

...I fully support this. Plus, I'd like to get that damn Skyrizi song out of my head once and for all.

May cause, pink eye, ring worm, impotence, rashes, loss of hair, yellowing of eyes, tooth decay, severe gas, diarrhea, constipation, green stools, purple stools, hemorrhoids, dizziness, fainting, bad breath, short term paralysis, long term paralysis, permanent paralysis, brain damage, heart damage, lung damage, liver damage, pancreas damage and death.

Unfortunately the orange taco Hitler would veto it after getting a secret offshore bank account payoff!

Half the time I have no idea what the meds they are advertising is even for.

It's just a tax write off for the drug companies

I worked at a drug company. You had to print the entire package insert. It takes a short novel to list the adverse reactions now.

Getting rid of those ads is a rare positive thing! Has to happen once in a while I guess.

...but, goodbye MSNBC...

Why would a company spend money on commercials to advertise a product that people can't buy!?

You can't just go to your doctor and say I have type 2 diabetes and I want Jardiance.
So how did advertising lead to increased consumer spending? Maybe OTC stuff but not prescription meds.
Boogles the mind

But that is exactly what the ads are designed for people to do (some even explicitly mention that the consumer should "ask your doctor" in the ad) and many people in fact DO do that. But that doesn't mean the doctor will automatically prescribe it for whatever reason.

I know for the past couple years, I had been seeing the Arexvy (from GSK) vaccine ads for RSV (there are a couple companies that make RSV vaccines). One that I saw a lot was this -

But for diabetes drugs I can't imagine a doctor prescribing a diabetes drug to someone who doesn't have diabetes. And without proper tests showing the need for the drug would an insurance policy cover the costs?
I know some are using for weightloss. But that's medical malpractice

and that applies to drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy (for weight loss) that took off over the past couple years -

Ozempic, Wegovy drug prescriptions hit 9 million, surge 300% in under three years (from 2023)

Ozempic went from this (2022) -

and made them pay their fair share, they would have less money burning a hole in their pockets to spend on increasing the amount of money they extracted from our healthcare system towards the bottom line in lieu of actual health care.

All the ads when Oprah interviewed Harry and Meghan.

The FDA, already "captured" by a reagan appointee, loosened their regulations on direct-to-consumer drug ads in 1985. What you're probably referring to was a further loosening of the FDA regulations in 1997 that unleashed the current fire hose of "happy smiling bee" ads with the fatal side effects given very short shrift in illegible tiny print and/or a too-fast-to-process voice-over.

Except that THIS was enacted -

S.830 - Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997

(trust me, I know full well and there was a lot of stuff in that law )

Now that's the ad we need to see