Biden administration unveils first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations

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24. Pharma should not be allowed to advertise. Most adverstising is on some level misinformation. ...

... The use of any medication and/or the demand for any medication should not be based on anything other than the medication's safety and efficacy. That is best judged by medical professionals. The average person on the street "doing his or her own research" while being mostly fully unable to understand medicine leads to things like the anti-vax movement. That the anti-vax movement has as much of a foothold as it currently does will affect this society in the next pandemic even worse than it currently has--one which will almost certainly occur but possibly with a more serious pathogen.

I agree with your statements/sentiments to the extent that I won't even watch cable any longer with its seeming dependency on Pharma's money. Reading online with Firefox and an ad-blocker seems to work to screen out most advertising thankfully.