Derideo_Te
Je Suis Charlie
- Mar 2, 2013
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Personally, I am disgusted at the blatant acts of the drug companies in commercials telling us to ask our doctors if blahblah is right for *you*, then listing all the awful things that drug CAN do to you that is worse than the disease itself. Since when is TV a non stop commerical of drug companies wanting your money but fuck you if you die taking it?
That is another example of government overreach for sure--the concept that all pharmaceutical companies must advertise all the known side effects of the drug along with the potential benefits of the drug. The reasoning for this is obvious, but the also obvious unintended consequence is that the people tune out that long list of side effects and most don't take them seriously at all. Or they are frightened into not taking a drug that really could help them.
It should suffice simply to make it a prescription drug and let your doctor tell you what side effects are associated with it. Or require that to be printed information furnished with the drug when you get it.
But for sure, the more government regulation there is and the more the government dictates what the people can and cannot legally say or advertise or do, and what people HAVE to do, it opens up a huge market for opportunistic trial lawyers.
It was Libertarian "free markets" dogma that resulted in Big Pharma being allowed to advertise their prescription drugs directly to the public.
Blaming the government of We the People now is disingenuous since it only did what was demanded of it by the corporate special interest lobbyists.