Advertising - fine for me but not for thee?
I put this in the context of how hard Hillary and Obama and the other "Universal Healthcarists" are railing against Big Pharma. Why? THey are simply doing what all other companies have the right (Free Speech, y'all) - advertising their wares!
And it seems that they do not like the fact that it is effective either! Talk about being anti-capitalistic and self serving.
Got news the the Democratic front-runners - I don't mind paying for my prescriptions as they maintain my health. Remember in centuries past, without them, many of us who have reached the ages we have have been, well, dead.
Heh!
This Just In [Jonah Goldberg]
Advertising works. Hence the lead story in USA Today:
Prescription-drug ads prompt nearly one-third of Americans to ask their doctors about an advertised medicine, and 82% of those who ask say their physicians recommended a prescription.
The findings in a national survey by USA TODAY, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health come as drug advertising hit a record $4.8 billion in 2006, up from $2.6 billion in 2002.
In another study, beer drinkers who see signs in bar windows that promise "free beer" are more likely to enter those bars.
I suppose that Hillary and Obama will quickly move to restrict advertising firms to quickly put down this rash of capitalism? After all, what's next - killing off all the ads I see for hospitals and doctors?
And lawyers, like John Edwards, trolling advertising for patients customers suckers clients that have been harmed by the above?
No, I didn't think so.
