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Why does it seem every other commercial, is big pharma, pushing their newest drug(poison)?
1 posted on 09/18/2023 11:46:48 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
I cut the cable about a year ago. Now,I watch The Old Geezer Channel (AKA: The Crime Channel) on Channel 50. About half the ads are for medications...specifically,diabetes and psoriasis meds.

Diabetes is serious.It can,and does,cause very serious problems from blindness,to kidney failure,to heart attacks. OTOH,I'm sure that psoriasis isn't fun but probably doesn't shorten one's life.

2 posted on 09/18/2023 12:00:56 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: DallasBiff

Just another good reason to never watch live tv and to cut your cable!


3 posted on 09/18/2023 12:03:10 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Georgia just made Trump’s campaign he with a a-free image winning him nomination!))
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To: DallasBiff

Yes the fact that most medicines in the states are from China many under big pharma names and brand x names.

Fear not our fearless leaders will work on that Easter Bunny winks.


5 posted on 09/18/2023 12:09:25 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: DallasBiff
Why does it seem every other commercial, is big pharma, pushing their newest drug(poison)?

Not only that, they seem to want to set them all to music and dancing. It's easy to tell that most marketing departments are now composed of artsy, vapid, egotistical leftist women.

9 posted on 09/18/2023 12:37:20 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: DallasBiff

I watched an old TV show on one of those streaming freevee channels last weekend and it was drug commercials like 4 to 1. I didn’t realize it had gotten that bad.

Especially the side effects. Yes. I want to risk heart attack because I have a patch of psoriasis. You bet.

Drug companies control commercial TV now.


10 posted on 09/18/2023 12:37:49 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Because it increases business for the whole medical industry. It increases the probability of more doctor’s visits, testing, procedures, the need for other medications to help cure the side effects of one medication, all while keeping patients in a chronic state of poor health needing perpetual care.


11 posted on 09/18/2023 12:40:12 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Pharma spends money on patient advertising because it’s effective.


13 posted on 09/18/2023 1:00:51 PM PDT by oblomov
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