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Restore restrictions to the pharmaceutical industry.

Return to the previous limits on when and where the pharmaceutical companies can advertise to our communities. Advertising to the public on pharmaceutical issues merely confuses the public and makes it more difficult for doctors to offer competent care. We are not doctors and we should not diagnose ourselves. Leave prescription choices to the doctors who have been trained to know the differences and affects of drugs prescribed.
2 Comments  »  Posted by http://warismyconcern.wordpress.com to Health Care, Additional Issues on 1/12/2009 3:30 PM

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ChinaStudy
1/12/2009 4:04 PM
Pharmaceutical ads should not be allowed on television, cable or broadcast.
 
The Progressive Logic Guy
1/13/2009 1:23 PM

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Why has Obama been ignoring the demand of his supporters for a single payer health care system?  Does he have political debts to the insurance companies, HMOs, and pharmaceutical corporations? Government officials don’t worry about “affordable” health care, they get it for free.  We should take health insurance off the backs of employers and have a generalized Medicare system for all citizens and resident aliens.  Are we who participate in this exercise being had?

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