Posted on 03/26/2025 11:52:08 AM PDT by DallasBiff
TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT PHARMA ADS — If you believed everything you read on social media, you’d think HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had issued a sweeping proclamation Monday morning to ban prescription drug advertising on TV.
That was the chatter on social media platform X from a prominent retail trader account, prompting Prescription Pulse sources to reach out and wonder what they were missing. Turns out, it wasn’t much.
“The social chatter you are hearing that HHS banned pharmaceutical advertising is not accurate,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told us.
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If the local and national television stations and youtube lose revenue, I don't care.
Hopefully he can.
I wish he could ban them ... SO SICK of all the pharma ads.
I’m sure he can, but I’m ideologically opposed to it.
Ok Rand Paul.
“I wish he could ban them ... SO SICK of all the pharma ads.”
I agree. After one of the N adds we see each hour (N is really big), I note all the side effects that they mention (probably mandated)...alerting anyone listening that just perhaps this drug might be even more dangerous than the COVID vaccine disaster.
They banned cigarette ads. I’m sure the same legal authority could be used to ban pharma ads.
This country has bad problems.
1) the people want something but someone stops them.
2) hidden insiders, big money and the Deep State run the country and the people are cowering, frightened peasants.
The election of Trump meant around half are ready to fight back now.
Example.
As of 2016 57% of the people do not want medical ads on TV.
I am sure if they allowed another survey that would be much higher. Probably the 57% was rigged like our elections.
Those lists of horrible side effects are disturbing and annoying.
According to New Age people and the Law of Attraction, seeing and hearing the diseases and destructions of health
leads to the mind creating them. “Doctors are looking for trouble” and so are Big Pharma, and the talk of illness creates more illness.
Usually New Age is wrong but this time I wonder.
Personally, I feel that if they take Big Pharma ads off TV, the networks will go out of business. Not saying that’s a good or bad thing, but a great deal of ads advertising drugs permeate the idiot box now. Can’t imagine where they’d make up that kind of money.
They should ban ads for at least prescription meds. Your personal doctor can decide what is best for you and doesn’t need your input on what you saw in an ad.
It has to be reversed by the FDA, who allowed it in the first place.
-SB
Perhaps:
**** DEAR PATIENTS ****
Do not ask me to prescribe a specific drug I’m not currently prescribing for you. By federal law I will not be allowed to do so. You will have to go to another doctor to get the drug and pay for that visit too. And if you ask him/her for it, he/she won’t be able to prescribe it to you either.
“Nag your doctor to give you our drugs that you prescribed for yourself after seeing them in our tee vee commercial.”
I have noticed they are now running side effects in teeny tiny letters on the bottom left of the screen rather than verbally & quickly mentioning them at the end of the ad. This might have been going on awhile, but we just started watching TV after almost 2 years of no TV. My elderly folks don’t even notice the tiny script.
Who banned cigarette ads?
Certainly - on the same grounds they ban the sale of unpasteurized milk.
All the Pharma ads that I can remember seeing had warnings about serious side effects such as having a heart attack, difficulty breathing, swelling tongue, etc.
These ads are nothing more than a way to control the media. They are the largest advertisers on Fox News, CNN etc.
Let them peddle their poison somewhere else. Sick of looking at fat, sick people telling me they are healthy because they take some drug that has more side effects than drinking drano.
You’re right, of course, and I’m sure millions of dollars secretly cross the sweaty palms of politicians to make sure the anti-TV ad bills never make it out of the hopper.
If TV can’t afford the bribes, then, like cigarette ads, they will finally be gone.
One replacement already ongoing: If you took the prescription medication “ZZYXXYZZ” between 1981 and 2019 you may be eligible for a share in the $1.1 Trillion settlement against the “XXXWYWX” Corporation. (names altered by me).
Direct to Consumer TV drug ads basically began during Clinton, in 1997. They were highly restricted before then.
Clinton, plus “let the market decide” libertarian philosophy, at work.
It’s also the era when China ended up with all of America’s manufacturing industry. Clinton gave China Most Favored Nation status and “the market decided”.
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