[Vision2020] America's Health Care is a National Disgrace

[g. crabtree]

Mr. Rumelhart opines:

"Also, how about regulating how pharmaceutical companies can advertise?
I think it's amazing that people actually try to badger their doctors to
into letting them take specific prescription medicines they see
advertised on TV even when they don't need it medically."

Perhaps one of the first procedures that nascent physicians you allude to 
should acquire is the ability to check for a backbone in themselves and 
their colleagues. Companies with a legal and legitimate product to sell 
should not have their free speech curtailed. If a patient sees an advert and 
believes that he might benefit from the product being sold it seems very 
reasonable that he ask his doctor about its potential use. If the doctor 
can't stand up to "badgering" perhaps he should reconsider his profession 
and become a trial lawyer or some other profession in which spine is 
optional.

g
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] America's Health Care is a National Disgrace


> Saundra Lund wrote:
>
>>Other much needed reforms in the area of health care:
>>
>>"Require all clinical trials be made public to prevent drug companies from
>>downplaying negative results.
>>
>>Fix the "doughnut hole" coverage gap in Medicare's prescription-drug
>>program, which puts a heavy financial burden on consumers.  Remove the ban
>>preventing price negotiations with drug companies.
>>
>>Publicize rates of hospital-acquired infections and fund comparisons of
>>prescription drugs to help consumers make more informed decisions."
>>Source:  Consumer Reports, February 2007.
>>
>
> Also, how about regulating how pharmaceutical companies can advertise?
> I think it's amazing that people actually try to badger their doctors to
> into letting them take specific prescription medicines they see
> advertised on TV even when they don't need it medically.
>
> Paul
>
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