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Posted on 11/17/2015 4:51:34 PM PST by markomalley
The American Medical Association on Tuesday called for a ban on consumer advertising for prescription drugs and medical devices, saying such marketing could be driving demand for unnecessary expensive treatments.
The Chicago-based association said it adopted a policy supporting an advertising ban and called for greater transparency in prescription drug prices and costs. The policy was adopted by physicians at an AMA meeting in Atlanta.
"Today's vote in support of an advertising ban reflects concerns among physicians about the negative impact of commercially driven promotions, and the role that marketing costs play in fueling escalating drug prices," Dr. Patrice A. Harris, the AMA's incoming chair, said in a statement.
Last year, drugmakers spent $4.5 billion on consumer advertising, a 30 percent jump from 2012, according to Kantar Media, a market research firm that specializes in media consumption.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Having said that, unless they're false, they should be voluntarily eliminated because of taste...not because of eeeeeevvvvvviiiiiillllll capitalism.
I won’t miss them.
In an addendum, the FDA has ruled that Cialis may not be prescribed to attorneys. Apparently it just makes them taller.
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Cialis is one of the tamer ads. Those side effects can be down right entertaining.
The real problem is doctors wives don’t want the little nubile young hotties going around to the doctor’s office selling their wares.
Didn’t the AMA endorse Hussein ObamaCare?
I think they’ve become a bought off liberal group sort of like what happened to the Chamber of Commerce.
Relative is the past president of a big city Medical Society (local AMA chapter name) He advised two republicans during the OB Care bill moving through. He said some of the presidents approached the AMA national body and were dismissed. They told them the deal had already been cut and they should just go along.
Chiropractors and physical therapists will fight any attempt by the government to remove Cialis advertisements.
The AMA are a bunch of communists. About 25% of doctors belong and those are usually new doctors looking for benefits from the AMA. The AMA is a joke and has helped destroy healthcare in America.
—personally, I’d be happy to see NO ads for anything used internally or externally for anything from split ends to toenail fungus, but I don’t want the AMA deciding what I see -——
We were watching a TV show the other night, and 80% of the ads were for drugs.....................
Network news?
Especially the Toenail Fungus ads...............disgusting.................
Cialis is apparently the best single drug approach for benign prostrate enlargement.
And often not covered by insurance because of the price.
The alternatives are more risky and less effective.
None of this has anything to do with sex or erections.
No it was some cable channel, I fergit which one...............
Ending prescription drug advertising, coupled with real tort reform, is the only way to have true “health care reform”.
The AMA has been doing a pretty good job itself, "driving demand for unnecessary expensive treatments".
The AMA and pretty much everybody else had a seat at the Obamacare discussion table. Everybody except patients/consumers.
The AMA are a bunch of communists.
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You can add the ABA to the list.
That makes two of us.
Three, really, counting the AMA.
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