Starter comment: pharmaceutical industry reps in the article had the nerve to call drug price negotiations extortion? Meanwhile you have companies like biogen bragging to investors about how their ridiculously priced drugs could bankrupt Medicare. Maybe if they didn't spend the vast majority of their revenues on marketing and saved a higher percentage for actual r&d they could have more reasonable pricing.
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I think I've read that only 3 or 4 countries on the planet allow drug advertisements on television.
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