Industry spends their marketing dollars with the mass media because it provides the best means for communicating their message and for building their brand. People who espouse the nonsense that "Big Pharma" is in bed with the MSM also believe that industry and the FDA are in cahoots to screw the unsuspecting public. The inhabitants of this fever swamp have no grasp of the relationship between government and industry because they've never been associated with either. But that won't stop them from hurling their idiocy from the sidelines.
You have no grasp of reality which is why you post your ignorance here. You're just another closet collectivist who could care less about anyone else as long as you get yours. Ignorance is a whole lot easier than learning basic economics or working in the industry. Those things take smarts and effort. You should avoid them because they might hurt your brain. Of course, when you do hurt your brain the pharmaceutical industry will, fortunately, have something to offer you to relieve it. Treating the symptom rather than the cause is the best they can do. Because, as Ron White says, you can't fix stupid.
Isn’t it true that much of the funding for these drugs comes from taxpayer dollars via the National Institute of Health.
Seems to me in that case, that the pharmaceutical companies are getting profits on our dime, while socializing the costs.