So I'm flipping through my Guidepost magazine in preparation for a hot bubble bath ... I always read in the bubbly bath ... but before doing so I have to rip half the magazine apart just to throw out all the expensive drug ads ... now my magazine is this skinny little leaflet with just a few good stories to read and soak in. I make certain not to pay any attention to what the drug companies are pushing ... to me it's ridiculous that a person has to decide which drug to ask their doctor to prescribe ... didn't it used to be the other way around? You were sick and the doctor gave YOU a prescription. Let's get some type of legislation going to ban the expensive drug companies from peddling their pills to the consumer before they even call the doctor. And one more thing ... now that I'm on my soapbox ... my mute button on the TV remote control is just about worn off from quieting the same drug companies from their drug pushing in my living room too. No wonder the prescription drugs are so costly. OK ... now I'm off the soapbox and have taken a few deep breaths. Calm down Mrs. Mac ...
7 comments:
Okay calm down mrs mac! LOl
Yeh it is annoying I have to admit but I dont pull the ads out! LOl
When I get a magazine etc, that's the first thing I do-yank those ads out! Grrr! I'll be posting tomorrow and putting on some pictures (smile). I spent the whole day yesterday baking my guts out! I was wiped out last night and today I have a house to clean (It needs to be my own house but als, it isn't!)
Connie
I hate when the ads are the thick ones and you can't bend the magazine over, right to the trash.
The actual medicine doesn't cost that much, its the Research & Development (R&D) and Marketing that is amortized into the piece price. Phyllis was on a medicine that was $1200 a box, yes, that's right, $1200!!! It was ridiculous!
I think we're paying for those ads when we pay for a prescription. One time Pop pulled the ads out of the Readers Digest, and he clained he only had 1/3 of the magazine left. Looks like the magazine companies would catch on pretty soon.
I've been away so long I forgot how to post....
gramma_s
I'm glad SOMEONE decided to get a good complaint about drug ads going. Puts me in mind that I should have could have blogged about it. If I didn't my bad. I'm reminded of Thomas Sowell arguing that there weren't any more drug ads now than there ever had been in the history of television. Probably not. But the emphasis of how they were pushed has certainly been changed. Now PRESCRIPTION drugs is pushed to the public when it used to be over the counter drugs had been pushed in prior years. While the drug companies do put out some declarations of what the drug side effects are, I do believe I had blogged about it at that, they still think that the consumer should ask their doctor about... even when the consumer is at risk of DYING from the side effects of the drug mentioned. Quite frankly, I won't ask my doctor about... because I fear what the drugs would do.
Isn't it ironic that we are paying so much for magazines and when we rip out all the ad's there isn't much left? Same goes for cable TV. We are now PAYING to watch advertisments....which by the way are mostly SO inappropriate! Move over sister, I'm standing right on that soapbox with you!
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