Sanders and King Unveil First-Ever Bill to Ban All Prescription Drug Ads
Sanders and King Unveil First-Ever Bill to Ban All Prescription Drug Ads
The bill follows repeated calls by RFK Jr. and others in the MAHA orbit to ban direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
Great start.
Advertising in general should be illegal.
But but how will companies convince you their shity quality products is what everyone is buying??
Yeah, how will I know what drug of the week to demand my doctor prescribe to me?
Finally, some good fucking legislation
If we get pissed off enough as a country we can make this happen
Sounds complicated. What if we just banned all ads?
That would take away a major advantage rich people have over us, so you'd better believe the useful idiots among us will not support it.
If this is passed(lol), then it will put a lot of actors who specialize in pretending to garden out of work.
Good!
Everyone involved in advertising can get real jobs instead of being paid to psychologically manipulate us with fake smiles!
Not to mention the people who come up with all that cheesy music and lyrics that try to rhyme with the nonsensical words the industry uses for drug names.
Drug ads were only legalized in the 1990s. It was much better to not have to constantly see them.
1980s. Brought to you by Reagan.
“Fast-forward to the 1980s: while Ronald Reagan was telling Americans to "Just Say No," the feds cozied up to the pharmaceutical industry, and relaxed their legal restrictions. Direct-to-consumer marketing (DTCM), what you probably know as "drug commercials," was first given the seal of approval in the US in 1985.”
https://www.thrillist.com/health/nation/why-are-prescription-drug-advertisements-legal-in-america
"Drug commercials as you know them really only began in 1997, when constraints were further loosened, and new meds began to feature in television commercials. For its part, the FDA notes that no federal law has ever outlawed drug ads, justifying its progressively lax regulation."
The next paragraph explains why I mention the 1990sbecause before then you would have to have printed on screen the side effects.
Prescription drug ads are a global oddity to begin with. Last I heard, only the U.S. and New Zealand allow them.
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Now get big pharma out of psychedelic research and ban them from lining the pockets of fda employees.
To clarify im all for psychedelics, and want them legal. But if big pharma gets in the way they'll ruin our natural plant based medicine. For example they are trying to create a psilocybin drug to take without euphoric or hallucinagenic properties and without those the experience is completely ruined. Shrooms and other psychedelics work for ptsd, anxiety because of these experiences, you cant have a good experience without them
Fucking PUH-LEEZE! If I have to see another plaque psoriasis ad during my dinner time viewing of Love After Lockup, I’m gonna blow chunks
There was a time when ads for both pharmaceuticals and lawyers were both illegal. Considering how many of each I see every day, it makes me wonder how they filled their ad schedules in the olden days.
Laundry detergent and other household cleaners targeting stay-at-home wives.
It's why daytime dramas are called Soap Operas.
I have barely watched non-streaming TV for probably a decade or more, but I believe that in Canada it is much more difficult to advertise pharmaceuticals or law services. I think they can do it, but there are a lot of restrictions.
Certainly when I'm
subjectedexposed to American TV, the number of pharmaceutical commercials is staggering.I don't know about lawyers, but as far as I know, the only two countries that allow pharmaceuticals advertising are the United States and New Zealand.
we just had a no kings protests.
srsly wtf bernie
But then how will they try to defend exorbitant drug prices when they no longer have tens of millions of dollars of advertising expenditures and are still developing drugs largely via publicly funded research?
Hey, those bonuses and stock buybacks aren’t going to pay for themselves!!!
Think of how insanely expensive those ads are: Besides the exorbitant cost of running them multiple times a day on numerous expensive broadcast channels during every day part, there's the production costs.
Big casts, big crew, location shooting, lots of costumes, etc. Then there is the music. They tend to use great classic rock songs, which carry extremely heavy royalty rates. In addition, they usually change the arrangement, and even write new lyrics. Changing the lyrics costs a FORTUNE.
The costs for the ad before it even runs, is incredible. The marketing costs for the entire campaign must be enormous. No wonder prescription drug costs are so high.
How else will I know what drugs to tell me doctor I have to take for diseases I don’t have?
Viewers think those ads are aimed at them, but many of them are for such specific versions of a disease, that the viewership must be extremely tiny. They wouldn't spend that kind of money to reach such a miniscule audience.
The ads are really aimed at the doctors themselves. A doctor with a specific specialty may have several patients that the drug might help. That's whose attention they are trying to get.
My man.
My first thought was they meant trump when they said King. SMH.
There goes the Golf channel
Even if this doesn't pass, get rid of the fucking jardiance musical commercials.
LMFAO. Yeah that will totally pass. The billionaire class totally wants to nerf their biggest source of revenue.
It probably won't pass, but we should still be fighting back.
Tackling the real issues I see.
Anything to get out of having to explain why he never once used the word genocide.
Rathttps://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/05/25/sanders-israel-gaza-genocide/
“What we should be focusing on is ending the destruction and changing policy,” he said. “Let’s be clear, 52,000 people have been killed, mostly women and children. Over 100,000 have been wounded with the entire infrastructure destroyed. That is horrible. That is barbaric. That is the concern we have but some people want to argue about a word which the United Nations is now working to define.”
Seems like a good choice, not letting people waste time.
This rat nas NEVER used the word genocide, and never missed a chache to say shitrahell has a right to defend itself or condemn Hamas.
Also invariably blames only 'the Netanyahoo government' and not the eternal evil entity, as if that would change if he's gone.Edit: and he's also saying protest should be non-violent so that nothing will change.
Never votes for anything useful unless it won't make a difference with 90+% against.His mask has been off for a long time.
what slimy coward
Great bill but feels like throwing a diet coke can's worth of water onto the worlds greasiest fire.
If it helps I’ll take it.
Water + grease fire = moar fire
It’s good to have independents!
Yeah, democrats hate him because he's not beholden to the ruling class.
Fuck democrats and republicans.
But what will be shown during the nightly national news programs??
If they can't run same 12 medical ads every, fucking, day, whatever will they do?If I never have to hear that idiotic Jardiance song again, I would be so happy.
Won’t anyone think of the media companies?
