How much could be saved if the companies didn’t advertise constantly on TV and magazines? Do enough patients really tell their Doc that they must have xyz?
Kinda funny too several years later the pharmaceutical company is being sued for producing the drug and killing people. It seems the only winners are the lawyers.
In most of the business world they say advertising doesn't cost, it pays.
So maybe advertising is making it cheaper?
I actually don't have any idea... just pointing out there's a couple of ways to look at it.
So maybe advertising is making it cheaper?
I actually don't have any idea... just pointing out there's a couple of ways to look at it.
^^^could very well be right. I sure don't have the answer. I do know that I have to carry a card with the few scripts I take because I never remember what the name is.
So is salaries and wages.
The drug companies are gambling that a person seeing that advertising will go to their Doctor and ask for it.
On the real, since all of y'all are getting up there in age... When you finally get your single payer Medicare, get and pay the Part D even if you don't have very many prescriptions. You can add it back in later, but you have to pay to catch up to that point plus a penalty. My gramps didn't want it because he didn't take pills at 65. When we finally convinced him he needed it at 86, it cost him two months SS pay up front, but it knocked his RX's from $900/mo to just over $120.
Unfortunately that’s true. If you don’t sign up when your eligible, the gubberment penalizes you.
