This is my first post. I've never done this before, and it may be apparent to you, but I didn't read anyone else's blog either. I just signed up and started by the seat of my pants. I think I have what we used to call "common sense", and I've noticed that it is not at all as common as it once was. I just want to make my observations on that demise, and express my opinions about various subjects. You, of course, are free to agree or disagree...that's what makes the United States such a great country to live in. Okay, enough about me and the introductions...on to bigger and riper fish...
My first blog is entitled NO DRUG ADVERTISING
In our daily routines, we are constantly bombarded with entreaties from drug companies to buy or ask our doctors to prescribe many different and, at times, wonderful drugs. Sometimes, the drugs are indicated for the maladies we encounter. Usually, though, they are not. The drug companies give free samples like chum to the fish in a lake, hoping to snag the big ones. They give doctors incentives to prescribe unneeded, sometimes very expensive drugs. They (the companies) advertise, at no small expense, on billboards, radio, internet, and television, attempting to convince us that we are sick and they can cure us.
This practice adds immensely to the consumer cost of these drugs. The extra costs
are then passed on to the consumer as "costs of production", artificially inflating the actual wholesale cost to the manufacturers, who then use these inflated costs to justify charging even higher prices for their products. If we collectively ask our government to restrict these ads, we can all bring down the costs, both to the wholesalers and to the consumers, making the drugs affordable to many more people (assuming that the drugs are actually needed).
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