AMA calls for a ban on drug ads

[NHE]

The sleeping giant has awakened. The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest organization of physicians in the U.S. At its interim meeting in November, the AMA called for a ban on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs.

The doctors are concerned about:

• “the negative impact of commercially-driven promotions, and the role that marketing costs play in fueling escalating drug prices…Direct-to-consumer advertising also inflates demand for new and more expensive drugs, even when these drugs may not be appropriate.”

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2015/12/ ... -drug-ads/

[Sailorlal]

They should be banned. I wish Americans would realize that spending money is not the same thing as free speech.

[1eye]

They should be banned. I wish Americans would realize that spending money is not the same thing as free speech.

Or free enterprise.
Or any kind of freedom, especially the freedom to make a profit. We should not be free to collect statistics on known deadly substances, let alone to even sell them. Or sell them or prescriptions for them, at usurious prices. Or manufacture them in industrial quantity