This will go nowhere.
We already have court decisions that ruled
lawyers have “free speech” to advertise.
Limit? I remember when it was illegal!
What I would like to see is a revision of what they can say and show. Instead of them walking along a beach or through an outdoor market or dancing or whatever while in the background they talk about the number of ways it will maim or kill you, I’d like to have those ways in the foreground, showing the person throwing up, their hair falling out in clumps, the open boils on their skin, them losing their hearing etc while a little window is in the corner showing them dancing or whatever.
They try to keep you fixated on how great your life will be on the drug while hoping you aren’t listening to the dozens of ways it will put you in the hospital or kill you. And how many say after the list of possible side effects are done, ... and more! Like you won a prize!
As a retired clinical pharmacist I support this 100% if it is legal. Does it cross the Free Speech clause? I do not know.
I do know that the vast majority of the public have no idea about which is the best drug for their illness and if cheaper alternatives will work for them. Should you believe Pfizer, MSD, Glaxo Smith Klein French now GSK etc. or your doctor? Big Pharma spent 14 billion on direct advertisement to the public in 2023. I suggest you believe your doctor.
Oddly when I was a new pharmacist I believed the major drug companies studies and publications. Would Pfizer lie to me? Yes they would! Oddly they lie via withholding data that is adverse in their research trials. That is a scientific lie and violates established protocols of honest research. They also manipulate the protocols of the study to lessen the reporting of adverse reactions Thus they get drugs approved by the FDA, which is corrupt, that should never have been approved.
I look forward to the day that big pharma is sued into bankruptcy. They have great researchers of great merit. If sued into bankruptcy other business’s will buy it and those great researchers will continue to work and discover great breakthroughs in medicine.
This could destroy MSNBC.
Bought f’n time. Just about every ad on TV is a drug for some other made up disease or a drug for every aspect of every minute of your life.
Insanity.
Big Pharma has spent tens of millions on advertising during NFL games.
Pfizer signed Travis Kelce to a $20 million deal.
Hopefully it will suck to be all of them.
We don’t even have our TV hooked up at home but for the past two weeks we’ve been staying at a hotel while repairs are being made to our house. We had extensive damage from a tree falling on the roof. Anyway we noticed that there’s just one after another drug ad on TV. Half the time you can’t figure out what affliction its even for.
Here is one situation I recently experienced. My blood potassium level was very high. I was offered a recently created prescription for a drug that cost over $500 per month. I remembered that 2-3 months prior, I needed a prescription for sodium bicarbonate to resolve the high potassium level.
Sodium bicarbonate is baking soda. Turns out that 1/2 teaspoon mixed in a glass of water will reduce the blood high potassium problem. Just stir it into a glass of water and drink it. That has gotten my blood potassium level down to normal.